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The Verge of Vacation

| July 8, 2011

french_dressing

Homemade French dressing, pickled shallots, and cauliflower frittata on the verge of vacation.

Almond Addiction

| July 26, 2010

almond_icecream

Addictively sweet and spicy gingered almonds add crunch to silky-smooth honey-almond ice cream, and make a fantastic topping for salads to boot.

Halibut Hi-jinx

| May 28, 2010

My attempts to butcher a large piece of halibut, plus two sauces to serve over it: scallion-butter and tomato-dill. A green salad with scallion vinaigrette complements either version.

Green Salad with Pear Vinaigrette

| February 5, 2007

pear_salad

A sweet and mildly tangy vinaigrette highlighting pears.

Gorgonzola and Dried Cherry Salad

| January 6, 2007

I finally ventured away from our house salad, and have started looking around for other potential salad dressings. I hit on this one because I was planning on making a chicken dish for dinner with cherry-marsala sauce, and wanted something to complement that. As it turned out, the salad had so much more flavor than [...]

Miracle Salad

| November 14, 2006

House salad, one variation

Until I met Jeremy, I didn’t do salads at all. I know… what kind of a self-respecting woman am I, anyway? I didn’t like the dressings, and I didn’t really get the point of eating lettuce. It doesn’t taste like anything, or at least the lettuce I was familiar with at the time. Probably iceburg [...]

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