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WINTER KALE SALAD WITH BLACK PEPPER RED WINE VINAIGRETTE.

For four days I did nothing but sleep and swim and sun and sit and eat and breathe and laugh and dance and cuddle and hold hands and wear high heels and wear nothing at all and swim and…
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A KALE & CARAMEL THANKSGIVING FEAST!

Your Kale & Caramel vegetarian Thanksgiving feast has arrived! If I had a specially dedicated K&C cheerleading squad, I’d have them doing backflips and triple salchows (I know, wrong sport, but STILL) to herald the arrival of this meal. Even…
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A KALE & CARAMEL THANKSGIVING: SHAVED KALE, FENNEL & ASIAN PEAR SALAD.

Today begins our epic journey into a totally vegetarian Thanksgiving feast, which just happens to be totally gluten-free, and could also be made vegan if you really wanted it to be. Growing up vegetarian, I had a grand total of…
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FALL HARVEST SALAD WITH CRISPY HALLOUMI + IDAHO!

I am slicing apples and thinking about open sky and land and how I might someday merge the city-dwelling and rural-craving parts of me. I am remembering the sweet smell of hay in every direction and skies wide open like…
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ROASTED EGGPLANT & ZUCCHINI SALAD WITH BASIL VINAIGRETTE.

Nothing is working very well these days. I’ve been sleeping without sheets or clothes, and waking up to air already as thick as honey. The heat encroaches like an ungainly monster and sits, taunting, waiting for me to throw up my hands…
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HEIRLOOM TOMATO & NECTARINE CAPRESE WITH BURRATA AND CRISPY BASIL.

There are certain rituals I perform to keep me sane: Brushing my teeth, rubbing lavender or rose essential oil on my chest before I sleep, picking flowers from the neighborhood, making lists, writing, reading, and on my birthday, getting…
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SUMMER GREENS WITH LEMON HERB YOGURT DRESSING.

When summer comes a-knocking, what do you say? The season asks of us our all, baring every emotional and physical cobweb in the glaring light of long days and warm nights. Summer is an intense season for me, inclined as…
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SPRING PANZANELLA WITH QUICK PICKLED RADISHES.

For me, one of the keys to feeling comfortable in the kitchen was accepting my identity as either a routine person or a variety person. Routine peeps are the folks who eat the same thing for breakfast every morning, no…
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RED BUTTER LETTUCE WITH CRISPY LEEKS, TOASTED HAZELNUTS, FUJI APPLES & CHÈVRE.

This salad is one of the simplest and most elegant first courses imaginable. Red butter lettuce becomes a delicate bed for sweet Fuji apple slices, rich toasted hazelnuts, and deeply fulfilling crispy leeks. Topped off with creamy chèvre, leek-infused olive…
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KALE & ROASTED KABOCHA SALAD WITH TAHINI & FETA.

I cannot stop eating this salad. It’s fortifying. It’s nourishing. It’s creamy. It’s dense. It’s flavorful. It’s bright. It’s sweet. It’s savory. Is there anything this salad is not? It may very well be the holy grail of fall and winter salads.
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SIMPLEST WINTER SALAD WITH POMEGRANATE, FETA & BALSAMIC.

make a variant of this salad throughout the year; the only thing that changes is the fruit I use. In the summer, it’s a stone fruit, often nectarine, which pairs plumply with the salt and tang of feta. In fall,…
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JICAMA CABBAGE SALAD WITH SPICY MAPLE PECANS AND POMEGRANATE.

I love when flavor combinations haunt me for days, before I’ve even tried them, the thought of the tastebud magic they might create lodged in my brain. Such is the story of this salad, which is bursting with an unexpected…
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