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Posts tagged “Salad”

Autumn Salad Recipe: Kale Slaw with Peanut Dressing

We love kale, passionately. It's almost the only bright spot of green in the winter, and we're gearing up to eat a lot of it this year! Well, we just found the absolutely best way to eat kale all wint...

Recipe: Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam)

This is one of my favorite Thai dishes - that crunchy, fresh, shrimpy salad slathered in lime, fish sauce, cilantro, and Thai basil.  It's also one of those foods I never thought to make on my ow...

Joyce's Drunken Noodle Salad
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Drunken Noodle Salad How long does it take? 20 minutes Category: Omnivore Name: Joyce Why is it a favorite meal? It's a great way to get the taste of one of my favorite eat out dishes at hom...

Erica's Asian-Inspired Chicken and Orzo Salad
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Asian-Inspired Chicken and Orzo Salad Category: Omnivore How long does it take? 25 minutes Name: Erica Why is it a favorite meal? It's healthy and flavorful, and it uses ingredients I usuall...

Julie's Quick and Easy Nicoise-Style Salad
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Quick and Easy Nicoise-Style Salad How long does it take? 20-25 minutes (Eggs have been hardboiled and cooled earlier in the week) Category: Omnivore Name: Julie Why is it a favorite meal? I...

Recipe: Fattoush, A Delicious Middle Eastern Salad

Often a part of meze spreads in Middle Eastern and Arabic countries, fattoush is a simple salad made with fresh vegetables and toasted pita bread. It's a good way to use up stale pita bread and the u...

Recipe: Chicken Milanese with Summer Salad

We're always looking for something new to do with chicken. This is a simple, classic Italian dish we love—a super-thin, breaded cutlet topped with a colorful, healthy, summery salad. ...

Cool Recipe: Grilled Salad Nicoise Long Beach Style
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Name: Jennifer Location: Long Beach, California How are you staying cool? Two of my fav's in the summer: BBQ'in outside and all the tasty local produce in season at my local farmer's market. This reci...

Recipe: Herbed Sweet Corn and Tomato Salad

There aren't many summer dishes as pure as a sweet corn and tomato salad. It's summer eating at its more blissful: sweet and crunchy, juicy and tangy. And so easy too! ...

Cool Recipe: Dana's Unusual Lemon Salad
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Name: Dana Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom How are you staying cool? Lemon salad! I know — lemon salad?! But it's great. It's refreshing without being too sour or bitter....

Cool Recipe: Grated Carrot Salad with Lemon Dressing
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Name: Michael Location: Copley, Ohio How are you staying cool? Grated carrot salad with lemon dressing. This recipe works great with fresh carrots from the farmers market, and the lemon dressing gives...

Quick, Cool Cucumber Sauce for Sandwiches and Vegetables

This is not tzatziki. We know it looks like tzatziki. And before you ask, "How many cucumber-yogurt sauces does one really need, anyway?" let us explain the difference......

Cool Recipe: Cannellini Salad with Goat Cheese & Mint
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Name: Laura Location: Santa Barbara, California How are you staying cool? When the Pacific breeze and fog doesn't blanket the city I like to keep cool with simple salads. No ovens. No stoves. Just fr...

Recipe: Grilled Zucchini and Grape Tomato Salad

Here's a plate of quintessential summer eating: zucchini, from the vine to the grill, handfuls of freshly snipped herbs, and juicy grape tomatoes — tossed with olive oil, a touch of vinegar, and...

Recipe: Grilled Cactus and Corn Salad

Among the summer treats we found at the Barnsdall Art Park market this week were sweet corn and fresh nopales, or prickly pear cactus paddles. We picked up a few ears and pads and when we got home, th...

Recipe: Bún Chay (Vietnamese Vegetarian Noodle Salad)

Escape the heat, escape from rigid recipes, escape to new flavors ... It's Escapes Month at The Kitchn, and here's one of the most relaxed and refreshing dishes we can imagine....

Recipe: Quinoa Tabbouleh

At last, fresh summer tomatoes! Last week, we came home from the farmer's market with our bag full of them! As we set them out on the counter, we spied a jar of quinoa that hadn't gotten put away afte...

Old School Practicality: The Seven-Layer Salad

My mother made a mean Seven-Layer Salad back in the day. And still does, I'm happy to report. A classic 70's dish, Seven-Layer Salad offers much in the way of practicality: it's assembled ahead of ...

Recipe Riff: Golden Beet and Barley Salad with Rainbow Chard

Now that summer is officially here and the weather is indeed getting hotter, we're putting a lot of cool pasta and grain salads on the menu for lunch and dinner! This recipe is a variation on the Roas...

Recipe: Quick Beets with Chile and Lemon

Although we have turned our attention towards more quintessentially summer flavors, we still have beets galore at the farmers' market and are always pleased to discover new ways to eat them. Here's a ...

Recipe: Tomato Salad with Red Onion, Dill and Feta

On Wednesday we showed you a custom beer pairing from chef Michael Symon. We really enjoyed that pilsner and pasta pairing; spicy linguini and hoppy pilsner were made to go together! Here's one more r...

Recipe: Spinach and Strawberry Salad
Fruit Slinger, Chicago

The Fruit Slinger blog, one of our favorite summertime reads, is back for another season of commentary from the front lines of the Chicago farmers' markets. But the Fruit Slinger doesn't just sell t...

Recipe: Asparagus & Pecorino

Last week we ate at Mario Batali's pizzeria, Otto and promptly afterward I decided to tell you about my vegetables sides tucked in little bowls. Last week's email gave the recipe for some minty Englis...

Recipe: Strawberry-Arugula Salad with Ricotta Topping

A couple weeks ago several of the writers and editors of The Kitchn gathered in New York for a late spring brunch. It is always wonderful to be face-to-face with the fellow writers that we usually onl...

Recipe: Peas with Prosciutto & Mint

Tuesday night we ate at Mario Batali's pizzeria, Otto. The not-so-secret secret to enjoying this place is to order a bunch of the sides and just munch. And so we did. Minty English peas and prosciutto...