I recently found some blood oranges from California at the market–and I love blood oranges–so I made a blood orange salad as ‘dessert’: you just peel and slice the oranges,…
Insalata di patate e tonno (Potato Tuna Salad)
Potato salad is a summer staple on American tables, but if you’re interested in a different take, here’s an idea for you: Potato Tuna Salad. At its most basic, Potato…
Insalata russa (Russian Salad Italian Style)
Russian Salad, known in Russian as Салат Оливье or Salad Olivier, was once a common feature on festive tables all over the world. Russian salad Italian style is distinguished by…
Insalata pantesca
…any common parentage, but the insalata pantesca is one of the relatively rare examples of a composed salad in Italian cookery—a salad where you arrange the ingredients on a platter…
Insalata di polpo (Octopus Salad)
…this salad as it does for any salad—and be generous with it. Not all recipes call for letting your Octopus Salad rest before serving, but I do find it enhances…
A Neapolitan Christmas: Insalata di rinforzo (Cauliflower and Pickled Vegetable Salad)
This zesty cauliflower salad is a fixture on family tables in Naples during the Christmas season. The salad is called insalata di rinforzo—’reinforcement salad’—is because it was customary in the…
Insalata di riso con tonno (Italian Tuna Rice Salad)
…is an almost infinite variety of rice salads—and you can really just make up your own version using whatever suits your fancy. Besides Tuna Rice Salad, another very popular salad…
Salade frisée aux lardons (Frisée Salad with Bacon)
…meal in and of itself. Odd as it might seem, this salad reminds me strongly of another favorite cold weather salad: puntarelle, one of the signature dishes of Roman cuisine….