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From the category archives:

salads

Friday Night Dinner, Garden at the Cellar

by Maggie Battista

A few weeks ago, the husband requested my presence at a date in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the city in which our romance blossomed seven years ago. We both lived in the North Cambridge/Porter Square vicinity, a neighborhood fairly barren of fine dining establishments at the time, a little sweet pocket of Cambridge that just didn’t have

Lemon Cilantro Potato Salad

by Maggie Battista

My husband loves potatoes. It’s a true love that began when he was a wee one fed piles of the mashed kind by his grandmother and mother at every meal. Every. Single. Meal.
I’ve always been wary of attempting his family’s mashed recipe. I’m equally shy of his family’s potato salad recipe, a dish his aunt

July 4th Menu Includes Tomato Bruschetta…

by Maggie Battista

Happy Independence Day! I love today. I love waking up early to get to work, in the kitchen. At 8am, I practically ran to the kitchen, hitched on an apron and started boiling, cutting and marinating. Today’s menu was short but fresh and well-seasoned.
We enjoyed:

Tomato Bruschetta
Blue-cheese All-Natural Burgers with Balsamic Onions
Lime-marinated Colossal Shrimp
Lemon Cilantro Potato

My Local, Not-So-Local Fruit Stand Makes Me Sad

by Maggie Battista

I had quite an interesting exchange this evening. We had run out of vegetables from our farm share so I popped into the local fruit stand to pick up some salad greens and fruit. Calareso’s Fruit Stand is located in Reading, Massachusetts, and sells fresh vegetables, fruit, plants, flowers and baked goods. (During the winter,

Fennel, Orange and Olive Salad

by Maggie Battista

This salad made me so happy. I devoured it the moment I stepped into Venice, while sitting along the Grand Canal with my friend, drinking a glass of Prosecco. After four hours on a train, I was tired and hungry but didn’t want to over-indulge. This gentle salad fit the bill, dressed simply with olive

Orange Fennel Arugula Salad

by Maggie Battista

Sometimes, you don’t realize that you have glamorous vegetables in your kitchen. I always think of fennel salad as fairly glamorous and thus a touch out of reach for the everyday home cook. I’m not quite sure where this crazy notion originated.
Sure, fennel is a bit unfamiliar to the everyday cook. It’s not used as

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