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Burmese Wilted Spinach Salad with Tomatoes and Crispy Golden Shallots
Although I always enter grocery stores with a very specific list, I rarely leave without a couple of impulse purchases. And those extra items...
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Green Bean and Heirloom Tomato Salad with Mint
Green beans definitely fall into that category of green vegetables that the vast majority of children won’t touch with a ten foot pole. But...
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Greek Salad
I’ve made Greek salad I don’t know how many times in my life. As it turns out, I’ve been doing it all wrong. What...
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Greek Lentil Salad
If you’ve read this blog for any time at all, you probably realize that I’m a pretty straight shooter. No superfluous, flowery prose here. ...
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Greek Garbanzo Bean Salad
For the past couple years, I’ve been cooking my own dried beans. My favorite? Rancho Gordo. They have some of the prettiest beans I’ve...
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Colorful Asian Slaw with Sweet Miso Dressing
In this non-traditional recipe, coleslaw’s nutritional value gets a major upgrade. A colorful blend of red and green cabbage, orange carrots and green cilantro gets marinated in...
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Burmese Grated Carrot Salad
My first experience with carrot salad? The grated version that’s loaded with raisins and walnuts and drowning in a super-sweet dressing. It was perfect...
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Goi Dua Chuot- Cucumber and Shrimp Salad
I just have one teeny tiny issue with Andrea Nguyen’s seriously wonderful Vietnamese cookbook, Into the Vietnamese Kitchen- I’d love to see more pictures! ...
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Burmese Chickpea Tofu Salad with Sesame and Cilantro
So I was jazzed with the idea of making non-soy tofu, but wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do with it. So...