Category: Salad
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Slow Roasted Sweet Pepper and Baked Halloumi Salad with Oregano and Chilies
Salt is my kitchen constant. Sweet is fine enough, but nothing makes me excited to eat quite like the prospect of impending salt does. I don’t feel particularly worried about this obsession, I don’t eat very much pre-packaged food so most salt content is of my own doing. Like cheese curds, halloumi is delightfully fun…
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Orzo Pasta Salad with Roasted Eggplant, Zucchini, Red Peppers and Sweet Corn
Cooking in the summer is so easy, it’s just a matter or picking out what looks best at the market on the way home from work (if you’re fortunate enough to live near fresh produce stands, that is). I love walking into the New Apple Market on West Broadway to admire whatever it is that’s…
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Roasted Chicken and Quinoa Salad with Ras El Hanout
I’m on a train tonight, speeding to Seattle through the blinding radiance of sun and sky and orange sleepy light. Sometimes we’re next to the ocean, where gold skitters across the surface of the water and sometimes we’re in the woods, where the gold is interrupted by the softest of pine shapes. I’m listening to…
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Chopped Salad with Mango and Shrimp
I just got back from a beautiful vacation in Maui where I was fortunate enough to have spent a week by the ocean with my husband, mom, and sister. It seems remarkable that just a few days ago I was sitting by the water drinking tequila watching tiny crabs skim across the surface of the…
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Kitchen Sink Salad with a Creamy Avocado and Greek Yogurt Dressing
I have some really nice memories of Sunday nights with my family that involve kitchen sink salads. My sister and I would often spend the afternoon outside, our outdoor activities depended on the time of year (destroying piles of raked leaves, making picnic table forts, pretending the hammock was a pirate ship, or constructing little houses…