Warm Sausage, Potato and Roasted Vegetable Salad

I’ve had a request for more vegetarian recipes around here, but sorry, this is not one.  I will get to those, I promise…just not now.  This was a salad recipe I spied a few weeks ago that looked like a heaty, warm winter salad.  It was, and the mustardy vinaigrette was great with the potatoes [...]

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Roasted Butternut Squash and Apple Salad

Fall is here in full force- there isn’t a chill in the air, it’s more like a blast of cold air today.  I made this salad last week when it was much
warmer than today, but there was still a slight chill, which was enough to get me in the mood for Fall produce.  It’s a [...]

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Warm Lentil Salad with Goat Cheese and Smoked Paprika

This is one of those drop everything and go make this now recipes.  It was that good.  In fact, so good I bumped it up
in my queue of posts.
I made this recipe two nights ago thinking it would pretty tasty because I love lentils and smoked paprika, and I was lured in by the picture [...]

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Creamy Garlic Italian Dressing

Now, you would think I served this withe the Sicilian tuna steaks, and while that would be a great combination, I
didn’t.  Instead I made some pizza with friends one night and served a salad with this creamy, garlicky dressing on the side.  It’s one of those salad dressings that’s really worth making at home, because [...]

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Vietnamese Rice Noodle Salad

This rice noodle salad is a great cold noodle salad perfect for summer.  The key is not to overcook the noodles, which can happen in an
instant.  If you follow the directions below they’ll turn out just fine.  This salad is great with chicken, and would be really good with this lemongrass beef recipe, or a [...]

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Simplest Cole Slaw

Sarah went to Maine and Nova Scotia and all you got was this cole slaw recipe.  It’s true.  I ate four lobster rolls last week and didn’t do
any cooking, so I don’t have much new to share with you today.  Some of the lobster rolls I ate came with cole slaw and that inspired me [...]

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Asian Lettuce Wraps

Posting a recipe for lettuce wraps somehow makes me feel like I’m posting recipes for TGI Friday’s dishes or something…next thing you
know, I’ll be posting about jalapeno poppers.  I don’t even know if chain restaurants carry lettuce wraps, but it’s conjuring that up for me nonetheless.  Anyhow, this recipe attracted me with the slaw and [...]

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Roasted Carrot, Avocado and Cumin Salad

Here’s another ingenious salad from Jamie Oliver.  I love his salads because they often have an unusual combination of flavors which
always turn out to be more exciting and delicious than you’d expect.  I won’t lie- this one takes a bit of time, but nothing crazy.   If you make it, serve it with something simple like [...]

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Summer Farro Salad

I have a small pack of farro I’ve been hoarding.  Farro is an ancient Italian grain related to wheat that’s a super chewy and delicious
whole grain.  I love it.  I decided to use some to make a summer salad with barely cooked vegetables, and thought it would go well with the chicken.  You can use [...]

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Lemon Anchovy Grilled Broccoli

This recipe stalked me for a while in Food & Wine and on their website.  It seemed to come up a lot while I was doing random searches or
looking at slideshows.  The other day when I was raiding Greg’s fridge for something fast to cook for us before a party, I spied some broccoli and [...]

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