Archive for the 'salad' Category
Roast Squash and Kale Salad with Cheddar and Almonds
January 30th, 2012by Caroline I spotted this salad on the terrific Food52 blog and had to try it. I am not yet tired of kale salad in all its variations, and this one wisely adds cheese. I’ve linked to the original recipe so that you can see some specific amounts, but this is how I did it: [...]
Fall Fruits & Cucumber Salad
November 21st, 2011by Caroline It’s not that often my kids come to the farmer’s market with me anymore. Our neighborhood market is Sunday morning, and it’s easier if I stock up in an early strike mission on my way home from a run, before the boys are even out of their pj’s. But we all went together [...]
Warm Escarole Salad with Apples and Nuts (Success!)
September 26th, 2011by Caroline As Tolstoy didn’t write, easygoing eaters are all the same; every picky eater is picky in his or her own way. So I was reminded the other night when I unpacked our CSA share and pulled out a bunch of escarole bigger than my head: “Yum!” said Ben. “What’s that?” Can we just [...]
Lemony Zucchini Carpaccio
September 8th, 2011by Caroline When Tony and I were first dating, we used to eat at a wonderfully low-key Italian place, Jackson Fillmore, with the most delicious zucchini carpaccio, light and fresh with parmesan, toasted almonds and parsley. We’ve tried to replicate it a number of times but never quite gotten it right. So when this recipe [...]
Sushi Salad
May 27th, 2011by Caroline A pretty common weekend dinner for us is homemade sushi and lately I’ve purposefully prepped enough of the ingredients that I can make a sushi salad for lunch the next day. Our garden is producing a lot of arugula and mustard greens right now, so I picked a plateful, topped it with a [...]
Salad “Nicoise” for Kids
May 16th, 2011by Lisa This dinner began with a piece of albacore, which we eat with some regularity. We can buy it fresh at our farmers market and it’s a favorite with everyone. I’m not sure what sent me down the composed salad path, but it might have had something to do with the week of composed [...]
Transition Salad
April 13th, 2011by Caroline Continuing this week’s foraging theme, lunch the other day required a bit of refrigerator rummaging, since there were no good leftovers with which to construct a garbage salad. I wound up with a meal that tasted a bit like winter, a bit like spring, just right for this transitional season. I found some [...]
Turn-the-Corner Tofu Salad
February 23rd, 2011by Caroline Ben was sick. He lay on the couch, with neither an appetite nor a fever nor any other symptoms. It was starting to get worrisome, the lack of symptoms. At least when a child is sneezing or vomiting you have a general idea of how to make them feel better and when they [...]
Kale & Avocado Salad
January 7th, 2011by Caroline We make raw kale salad a lot, but over Christmas my sister made a version that was a revelation to me: raw, shredded kale massaged with avocado, then tossed with avocado chunks, slivered almonds and lemon juice. Yum. I ate it almost every day (an antidote to my daily handful of Christmas cookies?) [...]
Comfort Food Salad for Brunch
December 20th, 2010by Caroline As I’ve written before, I love a salad for lunch, but when it’s rainy and cold, as it’s been in the Bay Area lately, something warmer is called for. Sometimes I make roasted potato and kale salad, but the other day I didn’t have quite the time, energy or ingredients to pull it [...]