Entries tagged with 'salads'
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You may think you don't want simmered pork parts in your salad, but think again. This preparation has become a favorite of mine, a clever way to deal with the random meat parts that may be sitting in your freezer. Or, maybe you have a dish that calls for a gelatinous stock you'd like to make with a trotter, but you don't know what to do with the trotter afterwards. Pig parts, served at room temperature, dressed in a basic vinaigrette of olive oil, vinegar, and mustard, is the way to go.
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Beets get their fair share of criticism from children and adults alike, and it's easy to see why if you, like me, were exposed to the canned variety as a kid. Those things are
not easy to like. A freshly roasted beet, on the other hand, is something quite different. Sweet as candy, rich and earthy, with a great sorta-soft-sorta-crisp texture, they're one of my favorite vegetables to work with. I make some variation of this salad a few times a year and it's one of my wife's favorites. Just like her, it's pretty, colorful, and best served at room temperature.
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This bright and clean salad is made of shaved mushroom, Parmesan, and parsley, and spiked with lemon, olive oil, and sea salt.
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There is nothing especially revelatory about this version from Yotam Ottolenghi's
Plenty; no special tricks or hard-to-source ingredients are used. It's just a mess of flavorful items all tossed together in the same bowl.
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Go crazy with creamy cubes of tofu, balsamicy chicken, avocado, sweet peppadew peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, crunchy sesame sticks, blue cheese—whatever your heart desires. And since my heart tends to desire everything, I usually end up with a giant, expensive salad.
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Less is more in this simple, healthy appetizer of avocado, lemon, olive oil, and fresh green onions and herbs.
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This gorgeous winter fruit salad dotted with juicy pomegranate seeds is a welcome relief from all the overindulgence of the holidays. The best part is you can make it ahead: the citrus juice keeps the apple and pear from discoloring (although the pomegranate juice does turn all the fruit slightly pink).
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A hint of warm, earthy cumin adds depth to this wonderfully crunchy and satisfying lentil salad. Note that the recipe calls for French lentilles du Puy. These dark green lentils are especially good for salads because they're packed with flavor and hold their shape when cooked.
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Why do salads get a such a bad rap on Thanksgiving? I know that on turkey day, most of us are in it for the carbs, and there's a lot to be said about stuffing yourself silly with stuffing or getting mashed on potatoes, and there's nothing wrong with that, but here's my theory as to why salad is so often shunned.
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Last week on the
Weekend Cook and Tell we asked all of you to tackle a subject that frequently gets left out in the cold come fall and winter: cool weather salads. For this challenge we dubbed
Winter Greens we were curious to see how you handled raw vegetables once the bounty of summer veggies has faded. As we had hoped, responses were filled with all sorts of ingenious ideas for kale, squash, apples, beets, and more.
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