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Posts tagged “Salad”

Recipe Roundup: Apricot Salads

Apricot season has already arrived in some lucky places, and we've been thinking of ways – besides eating out of hand – to enjoy these golden, velvety fruits. Many recipes feature apricots...

Recipe: Truffled Asparagus with Parmesan and Eggs

I've been cooking for ten all this week as the full-time staff of Apartment Therapy gathers for a retreat. Some of you are getting ready for your final project of the Kitchen Cure: Hosting a Dinner Pa...

Recipe: Lemony Shaved Fennel Salad with Bresaola

My friends Jules and Charlie had us over for a Mother's Day supper and presented us with this perfect salad. I've wanted it for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day since. Next week is our Apartment ...

Recipe: Tortellini and Spring Vegetable Salad

Last summer, we talked about Slate's 12 steps to better pasta salad. With our first pasta salad of the year, we followed several of the suggestions: cook the vegetables, go light on the acidity and us...

Recipe: Spring Salad with Radishes and Pumpkin Seeds

This salad doesn't look like it has much going on except greens, but I promise that there are little radishes and seeds hiding under the leaves — and their crunch is such a treat!...

Recipe: Broccoli Slaw

We grew up eating broccoli salad that had raisins, peanuts, a sweet mayonnaise dressing, and toasted Ramen noodles on top. It's a delight, which you know if you've had it. But every time we look up a ...

Recipe: Sardine Salad with Chickpeas and Feta

My mom grew up in the 40s and 50s camping in Yosemite where she dined on my grandfather's version of a sardine sandwich: a Ritz cracker with a slice of cheddar, a lump of sardine packed in mustard, an...

Recipe Review: Mary Sue and Susan's Asparagus Salad

We are great fans of Los Angeles chefs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, whose dishes are never fussy but always fresh and inspired. So when we received their April newsletter with a recipe for Bab...

Make-Ahead Lunch Recipe: Big Green Salad with Shallots, Chicken, Smoked Almonds, Goat Cheese, and Dates

Last week Emma urged us to make our lunches ahead — having a big bowl of something you can easily take to work is one of the best ways to make sure you eat a homemade lunch instead of going out ...

Make-Ahead Lunch Template: Pasta Salad with Veggies, Cheese, and Greens

Earlier today, we started talking about strategies for making lunch ahead of time for bringing to work. This pasta salad is one of our favorite templates for make-ahead lunches. Everything can be prep...

Recipe Redux: Italian Chicken Salad...Pasta

This is a quick weeknight meal that can feed a crowd—and it's even easier if you have a batch of our Italian Chicken Salad already made. We had the ingredients on hand the other day but wanted a big...

Recipe: Sour Cream Cucumber Salad with Mustard Seeds

My Easter meal this past weekend was a fusion menu between my own cultural heritage of Eastern European food (fried rolls, rich sweet bread) and Indian cuisine (tandoori-spiced leg of lamb, sunny yell...

Recipe: Mexican Sprout Slaw

Spring's official start last Friday inspired me to make my first true spring salad. Saturday morning I skipped off to the farmers' market at Union Square hoping to find more than bruised apples and pr...

Recipe: Italian Chicken Salad Sandwiches

This is chicken salad for the mayonnaise-hating crowd. Even if you happen to think mayonnaise is perfectly delightful, this is a nice alternative. We discovered a recipe for it last summer (indeed, fo...

Recipe: Quick Celery Root Salad with Capers and Lemon

You know we love winter salads; we talk about them all the time. Here's one final salad to usher winter out — a tangy, crispy, lemony shredded slaw with the delicate flavor of spring celery. Exc...

Recipe: Crunchy Peanut Slaw

A crunchy cabbage slaw is one of my favorite salads throughout the winter and early spring, and a restaurant here in town makes what is perhaps my favorite slaw: a deceptively simple mix of cabbage, p...

Recipe: Wheat Berry Salad with Blood Oranges, Feta, and Red Onion Vinaigrette

In our recent pantry reorganization, we found a bag of wheat berries we'd been meaning to use. A simple salad with some winter citrus and salty feta seemed like a good idea, and it all turned out very...

Recipe: Endive, Fennel and Parmesan with Anchovy Date Dressing

I'm still in LA, and Maxwell finally joined me a few nights ago. I took him straight from the airport to dinner at Mozza, a Nancy Silverton/Mario Batali/Joseph Bastianich production in Hollywood that ...

Recipe: Fresh Fennel and Lemon Slaw

I don't stop eating salad just because it's winter. In fact, I look forward to winter salads. No wilting, delicate lettuces here; no tender baby vegetables to be coddled with understated vinaigrettes....

Recipe: Citrus and Onion Salad

Remember all the citrus we bought at the farmers' market this week? While perusing our cookbooks for recipe inspiration, we came across this wonderfully sweet, tart, and fragrant Middle Eastern salad....

Try This! Baked Tofu

We're newly obsessed with baked tofu at our house! These little squares of chewy goodness are perfect for salads or even a quick snack when we're trying to eat light. Plus, heads up dorm-dwellers - yo...

Recipe: Cauliflower, Fennel, and White Bean Winter Salad

We first saw this winter white salad in Bon Appétit, where the description of fresh, lemony flavor with crisp winter vegetables earned it a place in our "to-try" recipe list. We made it this weekend,...

Recipe: Raw Kale & Pig Cheek Salad, You Know You Want It

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Recipe: Warm Farro Salad with Roasted Vegetables and Fontina

This recipe was inspired by a similar salad at Caffe Falai, a little skinny restaurant downtown in Soho. When we ate it, we knew it was a great healthy, hearty dish that would be perfect for lunch or ...

Salads and Other Side Dishes
Best of 2008

Salads - who knew we loved these so much? When we went to our archives to round up our favorites from this past year, we found scads of salads; they outnumber nearly every other recipe on the site. Th...