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Quick, Cool and Comforting, it’s Hold the Egg Creamy Tofu Salad

October 3, 2022 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Vegan eggless salad on a plate with greens

If you’ve got 10 minutes and a desire for no-cook recipe that’s easy to make without heating up the kitchen and uses ingredients that have a low impact on the environment –Hold the Egg Creamy Tofu Salad, made with firm tofu is just what you need in your life. It’s what I needed in mine…

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Cocktail Parties, Condiments & Spreads, LIGHT MEALS, Salads, sandwiches

The Carrot, Not the Stick — Moroccan Carrot Salad 

July 11, 2022 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Carrot salad on a white platter.

I never thought I could get excited about carrot salad. You probably feel the same way. I liked carrot and raisin salad as a kid — especially the raisins, which I sometimes picked out, leaving the carrots behind. But then I tasted carrot salad in Marrakesh, and knew I was tasting greatness. Carrots are sturdy…

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Filed Under: LIGHT MEALS, MAIN COURSE, Salads, Sides Tagged With: carrot salad, Moroccan soup, morocco

Spark Up Your Fourth with Fireworks Black Bean and Mango Salad

July 4, 2022 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Fireworks Black Bean and Mango Salad is so quick and easy, it barely qualifies as a recipe. But it explodes with pizzazz, pairing the sweet summer burst mango (let’s hear it for fresh, seasonal and local — summer means mango season in South Florida) with a zing of chile. Black beans add fiber for fullness,…

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Filed Under: LIGHT MEALS, Salads Tagged With: 4th of July, Fireworks Black Bean and Mango Salad, meal kits

Panzanella — Bread, Tomatoes and Summer Romance 

June 20, 2022 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Ripe-to-bursting tomatoes meet bread that’s seen better days, and you have a recipe for summer romance.  Actually, you have a recipe for panzanella, Italy’s classic bread salad. Across the Middle East, they make a tomato-bread salad using  old pita and call it fattoush. In Tunisia, they call it blankit.  In fact, traditional cuisines of all…

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Filed Under: BREAD, LIGHT MEALS, Salads Tagged With: bread, day old bread, olive

Green Greatness – Beet, Celery and Arugula Salad With Brazil Nuts

May 9, 2022 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Green Greatness Spinach makes Popeye strong. But canned? Nuh-uh. Fresh greens are the way to strength, but also deliciousness, versatility and greatness. Sign up for my free, virtual class this Thursday, hosted by Miami Dade Public Library  where I’ll be sharing three different ways to enjoy greens — all fresh, nothing canned, and entirely great. This…

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Filed Under: LIGHT MEALS, Salads Tagged With: Beet, Celery and Arugula Salad With Brazil Nuts

Traditional meets Tropical Salad, featuring Fullei Fresh Sprouts

April 11, 2022 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Fresh with spring produce, pretty as a blossom, this beet, fennel and citrus salad is suitable for both Easter and Passover. No, really. For 800 years, Ashkenazic Jews skipped seeds and beans at Passover, classifying them as kitniyot. That includes bean sprouts and tahini — sesame seed paste. Then in 2016, the Rabbinical Council lifted…

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Filed Under: LIGHT MEALS, Salads Tagged With: citrus, orange, salad, sprouts, walnuts

Iftar Quinoa With Olives, Dates and Dukkah

March 28, 2022 by Ellen Kanner 2 Comments

Iftar Quinoa

Across the Middle East, Iftar, the Ramadan break fast after sunset, often features olives and dates, two natural restoratives. In this Iftar Quinoa, olives and dates come together with quinoa for a filling salad topped with a dusting of dukkah, a heady, heavenly blend of nuts, seeds and spices. Ramadan begins Saturday at sundown, and…

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Cabbage and Caraway, Ukraine and Ireland, You and Me | Sunflower Slaw

March 21, 2022 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Sunflower slaw in large bowl is made with seeds from Ukraine's national flower.

Sunflowers are Ukraine’s national flower and this sunflower slaw recipe features both sunflower seeds and caraway. Cabbage gets a bad rep, but it’s a generous vegetable. I got a cute little head of cabbage to make St. Patrick’s Day bubble and squeak. Its densely furled leaves disguised just how much of it there was. Even…

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Filed Under: LIGHT MEALS, Salads Tagged With: cabbage, caraway, coleslaw, coriander, slaw, sunflower seeds

My Chaat with Mayukh Sen

February 21, 2022 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

No, it’s not a typo. I’m excited to chat tonight with James Beard Award-winning author, Mayukh Sen about his dazzling 2021 book, Tastemakers: Seven Immigrant Women who Revolutionized Food in America. Books and Books and Miami Book Fair host tonight’s free, virtual event and you can register here. To celebrate, and because I love a pun,…

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Events, LIGHT MEALS, Salads Tagged With: appetizer, chaat, fruit, light meal

Do the Right Thing – French Lentil Salad

November 8, 2021 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Lentil salad on a plate.

If you’re concerned about climate change, one of the easiest places to make a positive impact is in your very own kitchen. Lentils are low water, low carbon, high yield, they actually put nutrients back into the soil.  They put nutrients in us, too, being loaded with fiber and protein. French lentil salad will fuel…

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