Watermelon Salad Recipe
This is a perfectly light summer appetizer that is very easy to prepare and it’s super tasty. This recipe calls for ricotta, but works fine with feta cheese or any...
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Salad Niçoise w/ Potatoes
Salade niçoise, is originally from Nice (like the ratatouille), but it has become a staple French dish and is consumed throughout the country. A very colorful dish, it is famous...
Watermelon and Feta Salad
The original recipe is made with Bulgarian feta, locally known as Sirene. It’s the most popular Bulgarian cheese, and while similar to the Greek feta cheese they are not really the...
Sea Bass Cannoli with Melon and Celery Salad
Cannolo Siciliano or cannoli (i.e. plural for cannolo) is probably Sicily’s most famous delicacy. These tube-shaped shells of fried dough are usually filled with ricotta cheese and garnished with pistachio...
Tabouleh Recipe by Chef Thomas Wenger
Tabouleh like hummus and babaghanouj has its origins in the Middle East, it is a salad made of parsley, wheat bulgur, tomato and lemon. I have some Lebanese friends and...
Ready to Mix Some Salads this Spring? Here Are Our Top 31 Favorite
Spring is here, and what better way to celebrate it than making sure it’s on your plate? Spring salads, bursting with fresh, delicious greens, are a perfect example of why...
Grilled Brussel Sprout Salad w/ Walnuts, Prosciutto & Parmesan
When most people think brussel sprouts, they think of childhood dinners. Dinners where you were still at the table at 9 pm because you couldn't get up until you had...
Octopus Salad w/ Chorizo and Green Salsa
This is a delicious octopus salad recipe with potatoes, spicy chorizo and green salsa. Enjoy!
Spinach & Butternut Squash Salad w/ Crispy Prosciutto
Salads are often not associated with the colder months of autumn and winter. This salad however is ideal for the colder months. The soft baby spinach leaves are a great...
Spinach Salad with Chorizo & Fetta
The Spanish Chorizo sausage (pronounced cho-ree-tho) has to be one of the finest sausages to come out of Europe. You will find that depending on how long the meat has...
Vegetables à la Grecque (Greek-Styled Veggies)
This is one of those recipes where it is really up to the chef that prepares it to add or remove the one or the other ingredient. The vegetables an...
Pineapple & Coriander Salsa
This pineapple salsa is ideal for summer barbecues. Serve it as a dip with white corn chips, on top of grilled fish, throughout a salad of prawns or along side...
Swedish Potato Salad/Färskpotatissalad
Despite the cold climate, Swedish are barbeque fanatics. In sun, rain, or snow we light up our barbeques in backyards or public places. Vegetables, pork, steak, fish, and chicken are...
Turkish Salads: From the Tables of Sultans to your Home
This article introduces you to Turkish Salads, which are one of the building blocks of Turkish cuisine. To explain the significance of salads in this rich and diverse cuisine, we...
Gavurdağı Salad
Turkish salads have a very unique sour balance created by the exceptional natural resources available. Sumac spice and sumac sour-syrup bring out the flavor of salads, especially onions, and pomegranate...
Hot Ezme (Turkish Salsa)
Turkish salsa, hot and spicy, crispy and refreshing. I love it with tortilla chips or even with simple bread slices.
Piyaz with Tahini/ White Bean Salad
Legume salads, such as white beans, kidney beans, chickpeas, broad beans, and black-eyed peas, are a must-have if you want to familiarize yourself with Turkish Salads. When seasoned with olive...
Çoban Salata (Sheperd’s Salad)
The most popular of Turkish salads is shepherd’s salad, randomly chopped tomatoes, cucumber, onion, pepper, and parsley, served with olive oil, lemon, and salt.
Purslane Salad with Yoghurt
Salads made with greens are not only limited to lettuce, arugula, curly cress, and sorrel. Making salads with fresh purslane collected from the garden, especially in summer, is as common...
Turkish Style Potato Salad
Of course, it is impossible to imagine Turkey’s most popular root vegetables not being consumed as salads. Carrots, celery, potatoes all have different roles in salads, as do cooking and...
Manca (Roasted Eggplant and Pepper Salad)
Everyone in Turkey would agree that roasted vegetable salads are more delicious with vegetables cooked over an open fire. Roasted vegetable salads are the favorite of large picnics and weekend...
KISIR (TURKISH BULGUR SALAD)
Made quickly and with limited ingredients, it is easy to put together when guests arrive. And that’s exactly where its name comes from. Kisir means limited.