Mel of Bouchon for Two, like many of us, is a sucker for things with short seasonal shelf lives. Right now, she's after fiddleheads, or the unfurled fronds of young ferns that are harvested for food consumption. They look like snail's shells or some pasta marketed at picky kids. Mel says they're "delicate, earthy" and make a nice salad with minced garlic, Dijon mustard, Parmesan, walnuts, and lemon. But you might want to blanch them first—they contain mild toxins that dissipate after being fully cooked. Related: Fiddleheads [Talk]...
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Photograph from stickygooeychef on Flickr Methinks the English would approve of this perfect bite of Caesar salad from food blog, Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy. That's quite a tidy stack of lettuce, tomato, and steak. Related: Snapshots from the UK: How the English Eat...
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Editor's Note: Every morning in October, we'll have something to put you in the Halloween mood! It's not hard to find Halloween snacks to impress kids, but finding something classy and creepy enough for adults can be a bit more difficult. That’s why the Eyeball Caprese makes the perfect appetizer for any Halloween party. It’s a simple twist on a classic insalata caprese, and it looks fantastic. The key ingredient here is the Castelvetrano olives, an Italian specialty that has the perfect shade of bright green skin—as Evil Mad Scientist notes: "You can of course use other types of green olives, but they probably won't look quite as alive." If you're wondering how to make the pupil shape precise, the...
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Photograph from cakespy on Flickr That salad is sweet. Literally. Merckens brand green mint chocolate "lettuce," cake "croutons," and cookie tomatoes. How an eight-year old might dream up a salad. Cakespy even teaches you how to make your own....
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Here's a beautiful grape shallot, and microgreens salad made by Jacquie to offset the duck fat fries and the spit-roasted guinea pig and the egg yolk-laden hamburger and...well, I could probably keep going. Basically, here's your phytonutrient dosage for the day; I thought you could use it. Related Photo of the Day: Signs of Life from the Union Square Greenmarket Photo of the Day: Alternate Name for Brussels Sprouts...
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This Wednesday will be the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, also known as “Ren Ri”—the universal birthday of man. Celebrating families have been feasting for an entire week on a myriad of goodies, but the one festive staple is
Yu Sheng—a pun on the Chinese terms for "abundance and growth" which literally means “raw fish.”
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Deb of Smitten Kitchen use her mandoline-based magic to convert a few vegetables into a beautiful, colorful multi-layered salad. Her creation, dubbed That 70's Salad, is composed of slivered radishes, cucumber, scallions, celery and fresh cranberry beans, topped with a Dijon vinaigrette. There's a salad I would enjoy eating as opposed to...you know, wishing it were a piece of cake or something....
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