The best autumn salad recipe, highlighting fall produce like roasted butternut squash, beets and brussel sprouts on a bed of heirloom black rice dressed in a citrusy blood orange vinaigrette. | Food style by: Florentina | Food Photo by: MihaMatei.com | The perfect autumn inspired salad to feed a crowd and a staple at our Thanksgiving / Friendsgiving dinner party. As soon as the temperatures drop and it is bearable to blast my oven, the harvest vegetable roasting begins. From butternut ...
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Burrata Peach Salad Recipe
This Burrata Peach Salad is an explosion of fresh summer flavors and textures from sweet juicy peaches, creamy burrata, basil and a pomegranate balsamic dressing. You could go for grilled peaches and a handful of baby arugula to make a meal of things. Look at this beautiful mess I made out of my burrata peach salad! The little foodie Picasso in me just can’t control those wild bursts of talent. Story of my life! Just kidding, I bet all the food photography critiques would give me an F- on ...
Purple Potato Salad Recipe
Heirloom purple potato salad with perfect 6 minute eggs and herbs ! Have you ever a made a purple potato salad ? This is a real thing around the shack and I would like to introduce you to your new favorite potato salad. You are welcome kids ! Mama loves ya ! I must confess, I could not help myself from singing Purp and Yellow all around the kitchen as I was making this salad. I mean, it just came out and I had no way of stopping it. You know what I’m talking about, you are singing Purp and ...
Tomato Olive Salad Recipe
A simple tomato olive salad made with a medley of fresh heirloom tomatoes, capers, black olives, garlic and fresh onion chives. All the classic Italian flavors of a long simmered puttanesca sauce but in a fresh, quick and easy summer salad. Tomato Olive Salad Nothing screams hot summer days like a fresh heirloom tomato salad. And how can one not get romantic about a classic tomato cucumber basil salad or tomatoes and onion dressed with a simple vinegar and oil dressing?! ...
Tomato Basil Salad Recipe
Get goosebumps when you bite into this aromatic Tomato Basil Salad. Fresh heirloom tomatoes and shallots combine with a tart chive vinaigrette for the perfect lunch or side. Add the various basil leaves and blossoms for a simple, yet elegant, salad. Tomato Basil Salad This is the perfect summary dish because these basil blossoms just scream the perfect warm weather herb.There’s just something about their flavor that pairs with the summer air so flawlessly. Not to mention, the chives make ...
Italian Potato Salad Recipe
A healthy Italian potato salad recipe, made with colorful red and purple heirloom potatoes, fresh herbs and spring green peas, then tossed in a lovely, light and zesty homemade Italian style olive oil dressing. Easy peasy, without mayo and dairy free! Just smooth extra virgin olive oil, lost of freshly squeezed lemon juice or a splash of your favorite vinegar, fragrant basil, dill, oregano, thyme and a few cherry tomatoes. Who knew, something so simple could be so delicious ?! The mixed ...
Tomato Bread Salad Recipe ( Panzanella )
This Tuscan tomato bread salad is a vegetarian's dream. Charred bruschetta rubbed with garlic and tossed with juicy tomatoes and wild mushroom cooked in white wine. Tomato Bread Salad Remember how I was bragging about being the queen of all things bruschetta, crostini and panini yesterday? Well that's because practice makes perfect indeed. I rubbed so many pieces of charred bread in my existence it is unbelievable, and probably illegal ( since I started as a small child and all) ...
Burrata Roasted Tomato Salad Recipe
I’ve made so many roasted tomato salads in my life, but this one served over pouches of fresh burrata cheese and drizzled with a zesty scallion dressing takes the cake. Make sure to use the very thin and mild scallions, or substitute with a large bunch of onion chives. I used a mix of heirloom cherry tomatoes but it can be done with the larger variety, sliced or cut into wedges. They will take longer to roast and collapse, but equally delicious. Mandatory to wipe our plates clean with ...
Kale Butternut Squash Winter Salad Recipe
How about this kale butternut squash salad to step into the new year right ?! Happy New Year To The World ! Can you believe it’s 2015 ?! Where do the days of our lives go anyway .. I started this brand new year with a nice walk with the Batman and the kids, loves of my life and daily Sunshines. They make life worthwhile. I was hoping to find a few moments of stillness to just breathe, not making any resolutions or plans, simply to capture the present moment with all my senses. Quieting the mind ...
Roasted Acorn Squash Recipe with Pepper Chimichurri
Perfect and easy to make roasted acorn squash recipe with caramelized edges from maple syrup, then drizzled with a lovely pepper chimichurri! I made us an insane roasted acorn squash recipe with pepper chimichurri drizzled all over the top. Because really, how many different ways can you cook a turkey ? I am in awe of recipe after recipe after recipe after turkey recipe I’ve been seeing for the past 6 weeks, in anticipation of Thanksgiving day. I mean, how many ways can we repackage a roast ...