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Fast & Easy Dinner: Warm Winter Salad
Jam-packed with crisp vegetables and poached chicken, this salad is a healthy, filling meal in itself. The dressing calls for sherry vinegar, but if you don't have it in your pantry simply use white wine vinegar.
To toast the walnuts, cook in a small skillet over medium-low heat until they are fragrant and lightly browned.
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We love Slashfood so much that every Thursday we round up their most delicious stories. Here are this week's finds:
- Learn how to get free drinks at your local watering hole.
- 75 percent frosting, 25 percent cake!
- Do you write notes in your cookbooks?
- The New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys want you to eat better when at the ballpark.
- Radicchio is in season; it pairs perfectly with raisins and pine nuts.
- How important is it to preheat your oven?
- It's a great time to enjoy pumpkin ale. Source
Sunday Slow Cooker: Vegetable Casserole
This casserole of polenta and vegetables uses canned beans and store-bought pesto to cut down on preparation time, but the slow cooker does all the hard work.
The recipe calls for an Italian cheese blend and specific vegetables, but feel free to mix things up with an American or Mexican cheese blend and different beans and vegetables, if you like.
To learn more about this easy-to-make, one-pot meal, read more
Mango Caprese Salad
Every day when I water my small herb garden, I get a whiff of fresh basil. My first thoughts always go to one of my favorite summertime dishes: caprese salad! However, the tomatoes I've picked up lately are rather disappointing.
Simple Tip: Use Radicchio As a Serving Bowl
At the Junior Achievement's Wine Tasting and Auction, I was inspired by their servingware. Instead of offering guests olives and marinated cheeses in regular bowls, they were festively placed inside radicchio leaves. The bright purple leaves made the antipasto display pop with color!
Come Party With Me: Passover — Menu
At a traditional Seder dinner, no flour products are consumed, so my menu consists of flavorful and delicious dishes that are Passover friendly. To start things off create a cheese display with matzo crackers and cured olives. Once guests have had time to mingle, ask everyone to join you at the table.
Soup's On: Radicchio Soup
Today marks the first day of Spring and the last day of my Winter soup-making series. I wanted to go out with an exceptionally superb soup, but like my father and the Rolling Stones said, "You can't always get what you want."
I'd been holding on to this recipe for a while and hoped it would create a brilliantly purple soup.
Fast & Easy Dinner: Penne with Roasted Chicken & Radicchio
Although I enjoy eating radicchio, I rarely cook it at home. However, I've decided to change that by incorporating it into my everyday meal plans. With its gorgeous red pink color, radicchio has a bitter taste that softens when cooked.
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'Wich of the Week: Gorgonzola, Radicchio, and Honey
Unlike Summer produce that you can toss into a salad, Winter veggies often require roasting, which has the added benefit of warming up your house. This week, I took another page from Nancy Silverton's Sandwich Book to prepare roasted radicchio sandwiches with a seasonal side of Brussels sprouts.Though I'm not usually partial to open-faced sandwiches, this Italian-inspired recipe won me over with a surprising combination of ingredients and comforting, wintry flavors. The punchy gorgonzola and slightly bitter radicchio get a sweet assist from honey and candied walnuts.
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