Border Crossing: Summer Shrimp Soup

Who cares if it’s a soup or a salad? Or if it’s a salad with soup on top? It’s summertime, so why not cross the border between the unexpected and the delicious.
A clean, hot seafood broth, with small shrimp, poured over fresh tomatoes, peppers, cucumber and a lot of herbs, served with a side of fresh hot chili sauce. Sounds like summer to me.

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When to Eat A Caprese Salad

When the tomatoes are ripe on the vine and you bring them home still warm from the sun.

When the buffala mozzarella is so fresh that each slice of the cheese releases a creamy surge of goodness.

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A salad by any other name….

Summer is the season of the salad, when cooking and turning on the stove seems like an act of pure masochism, akin to enjoying a root canal. But after you’ve been making different salads every day, do you start to get salad fatigue? I know I do. I mean I love cucumbers, but not every…

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Monday, Montone Weather Report: Taboulleh Salad

As part of my ongoing public service weather announcements, I declare it taboulleh season. There are more recipes for taboulleh than there are stars in the sky and just about as many ways to spell it. Here's my recipe for a most refreshing, clean, and maybe even healthy summer salad. Soak some bulghar wheat (yeah,…

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