…everything you could hope for in a salad: it’s beautiful, healthy and delicious. Orange and Fennel Salad is also quick and easy to prepare. All it is, after all, are…
How to Dress a Salad “all’italiana”
…even a salad of orange and fennel that can serve as a kind of dessert. Finally, I can’t write a post about salads without mentioning the exception that proves the…
Italian Tomato Salad: The Essential Guide
…as well as the palate. Its finer points are well worth learning about. The great thing about Italian Tomato Salad is its “scalability”. You can make a very basic salad…
Filetti di pesce al finocchio (Baked Fish with Braised Fennel)
…then cover and let the fennel simmer for about 15-20 minutes, or until the fennel has become very tender. While the fennel is simmering, uncover from time to time and…
Finocchi gratinati (Fennel Gratin)
…the excess over a high flame. Let the fennel cool. Arrange the fennel neatly in a greased gratin dish, in alternating layers of fennel and grated cheese (and bechamel if…
Romeo Salta’s Easter Salad
…a bit to suit my own tastes. I was well pleased with the results. Other than a Russian Salad, I’d never tried using green peas in a salad, and never…
Insalata di riso con würstel (Italian Rice Salad)
…equivalent that goes by the German name of würstel. And while last year’s rice salad was very grown up and almost elegant, this year’s salad is colorful and ‘fun’, with…
Insalata di arance rosse (Blood Orange Salad)
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,…