Category: Side Dishes

This beet salad is much more beautiful and appetizing than the stuff of my past and with this recipe, a tragic food memory has come full circle.

For weeks I’ve been studying pasta salad options, drooling over visions of Hawaii-style macaroni salad, a vinegar forward Italian pasta salad with olives and salami, or an herbaceous pesto salad packed full of fresh vegetables.

What many people don’t know, and what took me years to figure out, is that cooked radishes are a thing, too. A lovely thing.

I am one of the ones who enjoys using rhubarb each spring and summer, and I look forward to finding new ways to use it, some of them downright delicious. Its bright color is captivating and its acidity surprising.

While they may appear fancier and fussier than their larger counterparts, baby potatoes are, in my opinion, quite a bit easier to work with. They cook much more quickly than full sized potatoes and don’t need to be peeled or chopped.

I’d like to hope that we enter into each new year with a sense of optimism and possibility. We get a clean slate, a fresh start, a blank page on which to leave our mark. Now that it’s 2017, I am excited to share with you a bit of important news.