Last updated on June 7th, 2019 Take your summer fruit salad from basic to gourmet with herbed pistachio crumble and creamy burrata. Add lime, olive oil, and chopped roasted Wonderful Pistachios, Lightly Salted mixed with fresh tarragon, basil, and flaky salt. This cantaloupe, stone fruit, and mango fruit salad is deceptively easy to whip up! …
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Five-Minute Arugula Fig Salad
Last updated on January 10th, 2019 The simplest five-minute arugula salad recipe with figs and toasted almonds. Easy enough for weeknights and festive enough for the holiday table, this back-pocket arugula salad recipe hardly needs a recipe! If you ask my toddler what goes in a salad, she’ll no doubt say figs. That’s because this…
Double Kale Salad with Creamy Pistachio Dressing
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 An addicting double kale salad to rule all kale salads: tender curly kale leaves massaged with creamy pistachio dressing topped with crispy roasted kale chips. Roasted salted notes and a slightly sweet creamy dressing, this salad is anything but standard. The world needs another recipe for kale salad right…
Roasted Cauliflower Kale Salad with Lemon Brown Butter Dressing
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 When I moved into my first real apartment without roommates, my mom got me two housewarming gifts: a small enamelware dutch oven and a compact OXO salad spinner. These were the essentials in my mom’s eyes. And now that I was living by myself, I was trusted with nice…
Cucumber Lentil Salad with Feta
Last updated on July 8th, 2019 Rich French lentils get cooked with aromas and tossed into a chilled cucumber lentil salad with chopped parsley, high-quality olive oil, and lime juice with creamy feta crumbled over top. The perfect potluck salad, side dish for a barbecue, or make-ahead weekday lunch. Whenever I’ve got an all-day shoot…
Gluten-Free Butternut Squash Falafel Salad Bowls with Pickled Beets
Last updated on July 8th, 2019 Crispy gluten-free chickpea and butternut squash falafels on a bed of quinoa and arugula with an assortment of flavor-packed salad toppings: Quick-pickled beets, crispy fried shallots, crumbled feta, roasted peanuts, and a drizzle of tahini dressing. Zoella has suddenly discovered that she has free will. Namely that she can say no…
Roasted Squash with Burrata, Spicy Hazelnuts, and Maple Vinaigrette
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 We usually have our Thanksgiving menu planned weeks in advance, but this year we’re heading to my folks’ house and they’ve been in New Zealand for the past three weeks. In other words, my mom hasn’t been thinking about meal planning at all. By default that puts me in…
Mint Jicama Cantaloupe Salad with Toasted Pepitas
Last updated on June 10th, 2019 I’m chopping up this mint jicama cantaloupe salad while practicing my breathing. The world said goodbye to a magic maker last week – unexpectedly too early. Two, actually. Just two weeks ago, I woke up to a group message to the 2007 cast of The Ash Girl. It was our former director letting us know…
Lemony Roasted Asparagus and Cauliflower Salad
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 Meal planning has gone out the window of late. You can find me walking through the supermarket like a zombified hungry teenager scavenging for anything that looks and sounds appealing at that moment. If a hungry teenager liked produce more than chips and always wanted ice cream. Instead of chaotic shopping, I like to think…
Kale Salad with Toasted Nuts, Seeds, & Buckwheat
We’ve been eating a lot of quick meals since Zoella was born. And we’re doing a killer job of cleaning out our pantry, fridge, and freezer, all while trying to avoid going to the store with a baby who hates the car. This chopped kale salad with shredded apples, carrots, and allofthenuts/seeds/grains satisfies both those demands.
Za’atar Roasted Carrots & Cauliflower over Salted Yogurt
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 I dedicate these za’atar roasted carrots & cauliflower to our cats. Have you ever crossed paths with a hungry cat? An empty bowl can signal that they might never ever EVER get food again, so they must HOWL at their human to communicate the dire situation. My mom’s cat Otis used to…
Roasted Beet Salad with Crispy Shallots & Tarragon-Basil Infused Olive Oil
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 I need to learn to reign in my inner cat lady around non-cat people (Mental note – why am I hanging out with non-cat people?). When people pull out their phones to show off their kids, I match photo-for-photo of my cats. This is how I weed people out. Then I…
Sesame Ginger Miso Cucumber Salad
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 Remember that time we ate salad and I promised you more salads this year? Yeah, me neither. We’ve had five desserts since the last time we chomped down a salad together, but since every good summer BBQ should be made up of equal parts vegetables and ice cream, I’m sharing this super…
Little Gem Spring Salad with Toasted Seeds & Herbed Goat Cheese
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 When my brother was a kid, he convinced my aunt that he was allergic to “green stuff”…aka salad. But he most definitely said “green stuff” which should have been a big red flag that he was full of crap. I’m not sure what’s more unbelievable: the fact that my aunt bought…
Roasted beet and citrus salad with mustard vinaigrette
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 Oh hi there. Long time no see. I’ve been spending my days and nights wedding planning (and bridal showering and bacheloretting – yup, it’s a verb now). Not gonna lie, I’ve probably had time to pop in and say hi, but I’ve just been too exhausted to think about…
Almond crusted baked goat cheese medallions
Last updated on September 13th, 2018 My elementary school soul mate got married few weeks ago. The kind of soul mate that pretends to taste the broccoli you’re eating just by holding your hand. You know, the kind that will spend all recess walking in circles with you around the roots of the giant oak tree…
Cherry Garcia salad & a blogiversary GIVEAWAY! [Giveaway Closed]
Last updated on March 30th, 2014 One of the coolest people I know turned another year older last week. From the looks of it though, you’d never be able to tell my mama was aging. If we were sitting around a fire pit roasting marshmallows, all the smoke would go toward her since, as my…
Potluck potato salad
Last updated on March 30th, 2014 Turns out that delicious homemade potluck-style potato salad is a bit of an enigma. Everybody’s mom, aunt, grandma, and third cousin brings an award-worthy heaping bowl of it to the family cookout, but no one will divulge their recipe. “I do it by taste,” they say, as if it’s…
Healthy spring salad
Last updated on October 10th, 2019 There’s barely any snow covering the dirt and rocks in Tahoe for warm weather skiing as Spring comes barreling past me. (Seriously, where did March go and why haven’t I anything to show for it?). When winter avoids California like the plague for an entire season, Cali’s gotta load…
Arugula and shaved fennel salad with oranges and honey cider vinaigrette
Last updated on November 7th, 2014 Up until now, I’d only ever eaten raw fennel in salads out at restaurants. I loved it, but I’d just never prepared it myself. I rarely cook fennel either, for that matter. In fact, you might recall the eggplant & fennel gratin I set out to bake a couple of weeks…
Perfect potluck Chinese cabbage salad
Last updated on July 1st, 2012 Salads that stay sturdy as leftovers astound me. Not only do they make for a quick and healthy weekday lunch, but they’re also perfect for potlucks. There’s nothing more pitiful than a bowl of wilted greens amidst a spread of delicious dishes. This cabbage salad lasts for a week…
Lemony kale, pear, and pepitas salad
Last updated on July 1st, 2012 At first glance, it appears that I cook with kale all the time. This assumption isn’t all that accurate since I’ve only cooked with it a total of three times – they just all happen to be within the past month. What is true is that I’ve been trying to…
Playing with food: Beet orange salad
Last updated on July 1st, 2012 I went to Sur La Table to find a heart-shaped cookie cutter today and would you believe it – they’re sold out! They were even totally all out of the sets that included a heart cookie cutter. I figured that if I’m going to be making cutesy Valentine’s Day…
Kale, ruby red grapefruit, and pine nut salad
Last updated on July 1st, 2012 In addition to my citrus kick, I’ve been on a mission to figure out a way to cook kale. Truth be told, it’s always scared me; I once baked kale chips and they were a little bitter. I never ate kale growing up, and I’m not sure I’ve ever…
