May isn’t just a great month for flowers, it’s a great month for graduation parties and weddings and holiday weekend grilling. And no matter which bash you’re hitting up, you’d probably like to take a dish along with you. But what can you take that will taste great, be fresh and satisfying at the same [...]
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A lot of us are used to thinking of cucumbers as a summer veggie — especially when they’re growing like mad in our gardens and we’re trying to figure out who we can foist them onto — but I think cucumbers are the perfect winter veggie: they’re crisp and versatile and have long been popular [...]
Good bacon goes with everything — I have a sneaking suspicion that bacon ice cream would be a hit. (Especially if you paired the bacon with pecans.) When I say “good” bacon, I’m referring to bacon from pastured hogs that snort and snuffle about on an actual farm. You can find this kind of bacon [...]
Scandinavians do a lot with crisp, sweet vegetables and fruits. So do Russians and Pols (and anyone else who lives in cooler climates where you’re more likely to grow carrots than bananas). I drew on those sweet-and-cool traditions to make a simple summer salad featuring two of Michigan’s best crops: apples and cucumbers. Nothing beats [...]
“Salad” derives from the Italian word salata, or “salted.” (You’ll see vestiges of this term today when you come across ricotta salata, a hard, salty version of ricotta cheese.) Using this broad definition of salads, we can say that any mixture of vegetables, fruits, grains and meats–generally cut into small pieces and seasoned with a [...]
