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Posts tagged “dates”

Farm Fresh Salads and Beet Carpaccio au Bleu
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 8.19.09

We're craving colorful late-summer salads right now – like baby beets and turnips with blue cheese, or a panzanella with sweet, juicy watermelon. More on those recipes below, plus ginger fried chic...

Top Five: Things to do with Leftover Dates

Most recipes with dates only use a handful, leaving you with half of a container sitting around. What can you do with the leftover dates? Oh, we can think of a few things......

What's the Deal with Dates?

Dates look like they're dried, but they're often found in the produce section and need to be refrigerated. Dates taste like they've been soaked in a barrel of sugar, yet no other ingredients are liste...

Recipe: Sunflower Date Cookies

While perusing one of our favorite stands at the Hollywood Farmers' Market last weekend, we glanced at their collection of customer-submitted recipes for new ideas. A recipe for sunflower date cookies...

Recipe: Rice and Mixed Greens Salad with Dates, Cashews, and Chickpeas

This was a tough recipe to name. There's a lot going on in this salad. To be fair — and we're not sure how we feel about admitting this — we could have named it the "Top Chef-Inspired Salad," si...

Breakfast for Lunch: Steel-Cut Oats with Dates, Coconut, Cinnamon and Pecans

Do you ever eat breakfast for lunch? Today we wanted a bowlful of those pearly steel-cut oats, hot and fragrant. Here are the other things we threw in... ...

Oscars Party Recipe: Juno's Pregnant Dates

As much as we love awards shows - and dinner parties - we do not feel as though an Oscars gathering must have cutesy, movie-theme food. Don't even get us started on the possibilities with Ratatouill...