Salads

Like Pisa tower – Tower salad of crab, grapefruit, pomegranate, avocado and watercress

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2 years ago
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Come la torre di Pisa – Torre con granchio, pompelmo, avocado, melagrana e crescione I have wanted one of those rings where you make salad towers for so long and could not find any…after digging Sur La Table, I finally found one completely random since it was hiding in the spatula and spoon [...]

For a Sunday brunch…or not – Mouillettes with heirloom tomato salad, rucola and pancetta wrapped yellow carrots

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2 years ago
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Pour le brunch du dimanche…ou pas – mouillettes avec salade de tomates, roquette, et carottes jaunes roulées à la pancetta In France we don’t have something called brunch, we either have breakfast or lunch. Brunch is an Anglo-saxon concept, and I like it. There is a restaurant in Sausalito (San [...]

Summer is just starting in San Francisco – Mâche salad with fennel, oranges and olives with citrus vinaigrette

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2 years ago
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L’été vient de commencer à San Francisco  - Salade de mâche, fenouil et oranges à la vinaigrette d’agrumes I was wondering why americans are not too fond of fennel and anis, liquorice, etc…Maybe it’s a flavor they were not used to growing up. I don’t know. The first time I tasted a mango, a [...]

The salmon wants to be a chicken – Sesame ginger grilled salmon with mixed salad lemon cilantro dressing

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2 years ago
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Le saumon qui voulait être une aiguillette – Aiguillettes de saumon au sésame marinées au gingembre et soja, salade mixte à la vinaigrette de citron et coriandre After coming back from New Orleans, I stuffed my fridge with fish and seafood, and it’s almost reaching to an end…I feel so much better [...]

Little artichoke, how I missed you!…Artichokes, shrimps, farro and rucola salad with avocado oil and basil vinaigrette

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2 years ago
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Carciofino, come mi sei mancato!…insalata di carciofi, gamberi, farro e rucola Beautiful artichokes are one of my favorite vegetables, especially the baby ones…they’re small, tender, and make beautiful and delicious dishes. The only draw back is the preparation, and trimming, since it can take [...]

Summer treat – fava bean, roasted red peppers, feta salad on tomato carpaccio

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3 years ago
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Plaisir d’été – Salade de fèves, poivrons grillés, feta et menthe sur carpaccio de tomates It looks like summer is coming…at least in San Francisco, it might be a false alarm, but I am in such a summer mood those days. Today is a very hot day, sunny, no wind (what a day for the city, the wind is [...]

Deliciously fresh little salad – Fennel, radicchio, grapefruit and olive salad with mint, pine nuts, apricot kernel oil vinaigrette

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3 years ago
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Salade délicieusement fraîche – Salade de fenouil, trévise, pamplemousse et olives avec vinaigrette de menthe et pignons à l’huile de noyaux d’abricots Another salad…fresh and simple, with a little bittersweet twist to it. The fennel and the radicchio combined with the grapefruit make it fresh [...]

Beauty and the "beet" – Beet and herbed feta cheese tower on a rucola fava bean salad with mint vinaigrette

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3 years ago
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La belle et la bette(rave) – Mille feuille de betteraves à la feta et salade de fèves, vinaigrette à la menthe Anytime I go to the Rainbow in San Francisco, I cannot resist to buy all the vegetables I see, they are so colorful, and fresh that I want to buy them all, if I had a bigger [...]

Silvia and the King – Crab salad with grapefruit, belgian endives, avocado and citrus vinaigrette

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3 years ago
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Silvia et le Roi – Salade de crabe, pamplemousse, endives, avocat et  grenade avec vinaigrette d’agrumes Lately I have been going crazy with all the beautiful king crab legs you can buy anywhere, it’s crab season and I am not going to miss this. I had crab about three times this week and I will [...]

For those who don't like spinach – Spicy spinach, mushrooms and feta pancakes topped with smoked salmon with yogurt chive sauce

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3 years ago
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Pour ceux qui n’aiment pas les épinards – Galettes d’epinards, champignons et feta saumon fumé et sauce au yaourt, ciboulette I know spinach is not the most popular vegetable among many French people. Maybe the way it’s prepared in France has left them with a bad childhood memory, many kids just [...]
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