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12 Crunchy Spring Salads from Saveur

With spring in the air, salads are on our collective brain. There aren't too many fresh green things in the garden yet, though, so we'll have to wait a little longer for our chive blossoms and baby ar...

Cheese That Can't Stand Alone: 10 Uses for Ricotta Salata
The Cheesemonger

There are innumerable cheeses that deserve a singular spotlight, the strong, oh-so-uniquely flavored cheeses that don't like to share the stage with others, so formidable that they're best enjoyed on ...

Good Question: Vinegar Alternative for Salad Dressings?

Here's a good question from Brian about salad dressings. He says: I am wondering about salad dressings. I love salads but I am struggling at making homemade salad dressings. It might be because i'm no...

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...

Hot or Not? The Salad Sac

We eat salads straight through the winter, turning to cabbage, fennel, and other winter greens to satisfy our cravings. So the challenge of washing, drying, and storing a variety of greens for salad i...

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....

Eating Light: Citrus Recipe Roundup

What's the best way to stave off post-holiday melancholy and face another dreary winter morning? For us, it's bright, juicy citrus. Now that we're eating light again, we've been devouring as much citr...

Gallery: 11 Winter Salads to Eat Right Now

It's cold and chilly outside, and we're not quite sure if the sun even came up today. So while we're eating copious quantities of soup, we're also craving greens and fresh vegetables for color and nou...

Cultural Differences: Salad Before or After Dinner?

Americans have their salads right off the bat, prelude to the main event. At the very least, salad is served alongside the main course. In Europe, however, salad is often served after dinner. It's con...

Classic Combination: Pear and Walnut Salad

Salads in the Fall take on a more rustic, earth-toned look. Instead of the bright tomatoes and cucumbers of summer, it's pears, nuts, and (usually) deep-flavored cheese. This combination is one we tur...

Seasonal Ingredient: Armenian Cucumbers

I don’t know about you, but in my neck of the woods Armenian cucumbers are a rare, seasonal treat so whenever I spy them in my Mystery Box, I start to get a little happier. Long and skinny, with na...

From the Files: Warm Grain Salads for Fall

Grain salads are one of our favorite bridge dishes - spanning the shift from one season to another. They can easily be adapted with seasonal vegetables, and the range of textures and flavors is always...

Times Top 5: Mix-and-Match Rice Salads
From the NY Times Dining Section 07.30.08

Mark Bittman takes on one of our favorite topics: salads! Take a look at this and our other top 5 picks out of the Times dining section. ...

Look! Laure's Fresh Peach Salad

Remember Laure's question about a good salad to make with ripe peaches? Well, she came up with a great one....

Good Question: Quick and Easy Salad With Ripe Peaches?

Laure from AT: Los Angeles wrote to us yesterday with an excellent question about fresh peaches. She writes: I have some incredible perfectly ripe peaches that I desperately want work into a green s...

Seasonal Spotlight: Red Orach

We came across this salad green at the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market last weekend, and we'd never seen it before....

Seasonal Spotlight: Edible Flowers

At the farmer's markets in San Francisco right now, we're seeing a lot of the salad vendors selling edible flowers mixed in the salad bags. Edible flowers are not only colorful and pretty to look at,...

Salads and More: Favorite Salads from The Kitchn

See all those little baby greens? That's our box o' greens, and they're growing like weeds. When that mesclun mix is all grown up, we're looking forward to some summer salad. Here are a few favorites ...

Strawberries in Salads

This weekend, our plans to make a strawberry pie got interrupted, and no piemaking ever happened. We were thus left with the delightful problem of too many strawberries. There weren't quite enough for...

Good Product: Spin N' Stor

When one has a small kitchen, one wants as little clutter as possible. This can be hard to do with so much necessary kitchen equipment, and when we find something that's practical and compact, we jum...

Easy Jam Jar Salad Dressings

When it comes to salad dressings, there are days where we create a perfect emulsion, delicately whisking in olive oil drop by drop. But most days, we reach for an empty jam jar....

Weekend Meditation: Intuitive Cooking and the Perfect Salad

Intuitive cooking (or cooking by feel, as we say here in The Kitchn) is not so very esoteric. I believe it has a lot to do with practice. By that I mean both the activity of repeating something over...

Giant Wood Salad Paddles at Dean & DeLuca

Oooh - we just fell in love with these salad paddles we spied at Dean & DeLuca. These things are huge and oversized, like bear paws. Click through for a picture of our small hands next to them, f...

Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: Pea Shoots

For those with a strong sweet tooth, mealtime is often a battle between what you want to eat, and what's healthy. You could have chocolate cake for dinner, but often that nice piece of grilled fish wi...

Dressing Spring Salads: How To Make a Basic Vinaigrette

All this talk of baby shoots and growing sweet little radishes is making us think of salads. Simple, beautiful, garden-fresh salads that only need a quick toss with a vinaigrette to shine, shine, shi...

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