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lemon cucumber and heirloom tomato carpaccio
i get so excited when heirloom tomatoes come back in season that i quite audibly squeal. i don’t know if it’s the short season – only about a month and a half if we’re lucky – or the unique taste that can’t be found in conventional tomatoes, but they are the one veggie i dream [...]
peach caprese
while i love tomatoes, i’ve become spoiled by working for organic tomato farmers the past two summers. their tomatoes have the most amazing smooth and velvety texture with these incredibly unique flavors in each variety. most of them are heirlooms and i’ve learned those suckers absolutely will not grow outside of their very specific season [...]
bok choy coleslaw
the beginning of the grilling season has pulled us outdoors and commanded we try to grill anything we can. but to go along with the charbroiled treats, i’ve been quite a fiend for coleslaws and tasty raw salads which clear the palate nicely. i usually skip the mayo, using oil, lemon juice and honey for [...]
rustic heirloom tomato salad
these tomatoes don’t need much to taste good. sometimes i just eat them plain. but if you are new to heirlooms and need a simple idea for how to enjoy them, try this simple salad. it features an easy honey dressing which cuts the sharp taste of some of the more acidic tomatoes, and subtly [...]
baby potato salad
every year growing up my family would dye hard boiled eggs a few days before easter, then on sunday my mom would crack open all the remaining ones to mash them up in a big bowl of colorful potato salad. nowadays i take my potato salad eggless and mayoless (unless it’s vegenaise), but that doesn’t [...]
napa cabbage and snap pea winter salad with herb-roasted red onion
i recently visited my good friend rose in san francisco, who always inspires me when we share the kitchen. our first night in town, exhausted from traveling, she made us a delicious dinner which included something she called a winter salad. it involved wilted napa cabbage, warm apples and apple cider vinegar. while this isn’t [...]
cilantro lemon orzo with toasted almonds
this is one of those recipes that happened on accident, based on the limited contents of my fridge. thankfully, the lemon and cilantro’s bright flavors compliment the hardiness of the whole wheat and toasted almonds in all the right ways. at first i thought it might be a sort of pasta salad, served cold and [...]
quinoa and persian cucumber salad with spicy mint sauce
this salad celebrates both the cool and the spicy – the juiciness of the cucumbers and the cool mint taste help to defuse the sharp bite of the jalepeno, creating a broad taste profile that is intriguing to the tastebuds. and because quinoa is a fluffy high-protein gain while cucumbers are light and watery, this [...]
baked eggplant bruschetta salad
i love bruschetta. it has tomato and basil – some of my favorite fresh summer flavors – and in this incarnation i even threw in some roasted eggplant. but what i don’t love is trying to balance all those delicious veggies on top of a little piece of toast before it finds its way to [...]
roasted corn and purslane salad with a creamy dill dressing
the cool thing about purslane is it’s a succulent! while most lettuce greens you eat are delicate and thin, this one is thicker, crispy, lemony and slightly salty. they are a very different texture than other edible greens. and while it is considered a weed, purslane is the highest source of omega-3 fatty acids amongst [...]
