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Autumn Salad with Blood Orange Vinaigrette

Last night Lucia and I were home alone for dinner. I asked her what she wanted to eat and she said “salad.” Ahhh, the happiness of a child after my own heart. If I had only one food to live …

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Sweet-and-Sour Tomato-Pepper Salad Recipe

This clean, quick, and easy recipe tastes just like my childhood summers to me. My mother used to make it, and I always loved it—even after I learned how she made it, which seemed just plain weird. I think it’s …

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Recipe: Raw Asparagus Salad

Asparagus is delicious cooked, but it’s also really good raw. And this time of year, when the asparagus is coming in fast, you need more than one way to cook it and eat it. I made up this recipe on …

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Deviled Easter Egg Salad

The egg hunt is over, the Easter dresses are all scuffed with grass stains—now, what to do with all those hard boiled eggs? Personally, I love the taste of deviled eggs. But it’s too fussy and time consuming to make …

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Recipe: Carrot Salad (When There’s Nothing Else in the Fridge)

Sometimes you just need a fresh vegetable accompaniment to a meal, and the refrigerator is either empty or pathetically filled with rotting, shriveled produce (yes, even my fridge can look like that!). Usually, all that’s left standing at that point …

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My Favorite Summer Salads

Ironically, fresh local lettuce is harder to come by in the heat of summer than in spring and fall—lettuce prefers cooler temperatures. Yet, there is no better food to fix on a hot night, when you don’t want to heat …

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