The Kitchen Chronicles

Adventures in City Cooking

Category: Salad (page 2 of 7)

Mexican Mushroom and Potato Salad

The temperatures haven’t risen out of the mid-60s besides two freak days a couple of weeks ago, but I don’t care if it’s too soon- I’m declaring it salad season.

It’s also running season, now that I can venture outside without four layers and my face getting unadorably wind-chapped. In fact, I’ve already managed to create a full-on racerback tan just in time for a wedding I’m attending on Friday in a backless dress. One of my favorite ways to “do the weekend” – and this should come as absolutely no surprise to those who know me – is to figure out the most efficient way to tackle my to-do list. Often, this means mapping my running route around things I need to get done.

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Warm Lentil and Root Vegetable Salad with Coconut Tzatziki

I almost did not get this recipe out to you in time, because it is decidedly a winter dish (what with the lentils and root vegetables), but then yet another nor-easter came roaring into town on the first day of spring and suddenly there were no rules anymore and nothing made sense, and that’s how we got here, looking at root vegetables on March 21.

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Vinegar-Glazed Butternut Squash Pasta Salad

The tail end of winter is always tough. Daylight savings has kicked in (and I’m not going to complain about sunlight at 7pm) but the temperatures are still hovering in the 40s and I see a few snowflakes in the forecast. It’s been about four months of root vegetables on heavy rotation, soups galore and a LOT of lentils. So many lentil salads- three of them have made it onto this blog so far and I’m embarrassed to admit there’s another coming in the next week or so! But with the arrival of March, all I can think about is asparagus season, dining al fresco and taking the water-logged cover off the grill.

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Broccoli Quinoa Salad

I have a well-documented obsession with bulgur, I adore farro in preparations from soups to salads, I have about 8 jars filled with different types of rice, and I think pearled barley is incredibly underrated. But I typically give quinoa a big “no, thank you.”

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