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A Serious Salad Search: Sylvia Plath's Lost Salad Dressing
Intrigued by a passage from Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, in which the character Esther Greenwood describes a French dressing–grape jelly reduction she ate with avocadoes, I tried re-creating it. With little success. So instead, I decided to eat a tribute rather than a re-creation of Plath's beloved salad: sliced ruby red grapefruit and avocado, drizzled with the rich, sweet, but more acidic taste of balsamic vinegar.In Season: Grapefruit
[Photograph: Stephanvds on Flickr] After having one too many overindulgent meals for the past three days, I don't know about you, but I feel like I need to go on a detox immediately. Knowing that won't happen with leftovers calling my name and New Year's festivities right around the corner, partaking in some delicious and healthy grapefruit seems like a great compromise. Check out grapefruit recipes, tips, and info, after the jump....Blogwatch: Grapefruit Soda
Making an adult soda is an easy way to add some zing to any fruit juice you may have on hand. My definition of adult soda is a drink consisting of sparkling water mixed with a fruit juice. A good general rule is to use a 1:1 ratio of juice to water, but this varies depending on how sweet the juice is. I certainly didn't invent this concoction, but I started making it because drinking sparkling water by itself hurts my mouth. The bubbles, people! They're lethal. Emily of Just Eat Food makes a refreshing grapefruit soda with some fresh orange and grapefruit. A good way to get your citrus on. Just between you and me, I also think...Blogwatch: Grapefruit Curd
I go crazy for curd. I will happily sit with curd, eating spoonfuls of it with cookies, pound cake, ice cream, or a mix of all three. Did you know curd goes with pretty much anything good in the universe? So of course, when I saw Hannah, of Honey & Jam, and her gorgeous grapefruit curd, I was smitten. I've only made lemon and lemon-lime curd before, so I'd love to try her version. Seriously though, watch out. I've sat down with a fresh batch of curd before and two hours later all I'm left with is a dirty spoon and cookie crumbs. It's both beautiful and sad....'F*** Grapefruit'
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Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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