Salads & dressings

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Empire Apple Cider Vinegar

March 4, 2009

The little things give us away. We go quietly about minding our own business, then someone catches a detail and knows something about you. When I was backpacking in Europe I spotted fellow Canucks by their iron engineering rings or Mountain Equipment Co-op jackets. Americans peg me by my pasty skin and they way I [...]

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Lemon-Loaded North African Dressing

May 16, 2008

These days when you order a salad, the dressings choices are so varied they could have their own menu. But years ago, when I fell in love with this lemon-loaded version, the only competition was — and had been for decades — Italian, French, Thousand Island and blue cheese. Period. You had to go to [...]

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Roasted Pepper Salad

May 14, 2008

This salad takes almost as long to say as it does to prepare. The full name of this dish is — deep breath — Roasted Sweet Pepper Salad with Pine Nuts, Goat Cheese and Basil. Phew! That’s practically the whole recipe. Another of Rose Reisman’s gems from The Complete Light Kitchen, this takes all of [...]

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Blast from The Past Cranberry Salad

September 5, 2006

Despite my tour of the Jell-O Museum in LeRoy, NY, I’ve never been partial to the dessert. While the 50s had a love affair with jellied anything — from tuna salad set in lemon gelatin to tomato aspic — I was born a decade too late to be acclimatized to this particular culinary craze. Once [...]

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Six Degrees of Separation Black Bean Salad

May 31, 2006

Cilantro is one of those herbs that you either love or hate. My best friend says it tastes like soap, which it doesn’t — and believe me, I should know (see my post on Turkish Delight). While I could eat it by the handful and can’t imagine a bowl of Thai green curry without it, [...]

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