Indigo Rose Tomato Salad with Basil Vinaigrette

Indigo Rose Tomato Salad with Basil Vinaigrette

Indigo Rose Tomatoes. This is a tomato to get excited about. It tastes as good as it looks and might even have better nutritional value to boot! This is one of the finds at the PSU farmers market this past week. 

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Potato Salad with Green Beans + Dill

Potato Salad with Green Beans + Dill

This is one of my favorite potato salads. I'm not sure where or when I started making it, but it definitely wasn't while I was growing up. My mom would make the traditional American potato salad which consisted of potatoes, hard-boiled egg, mayonnaise, onion and salt and pepper. That was it. And that's what I knew of potato salad as a kid.

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Black Rice Salad

Black Rice Salad

Lately I'm finding myself interested in trying new grains, like black rice for this salad, it's something I probably had in a restaurant before but never thought to make myself, well those days are over. And I'm happy for it. And maybe a bit healthier? Black rice is high in iron and very nutritious, rivaling blueberries with antioxidants. And it tastes really good!

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Roasted Beet Salad + Greens

Roasted Beet Salad + Greens

I love the color of this salad but it wasn't what I originally intended. I picked up some golden and red beets yesterday at the farmer's market, or rather what I thought were red beets. It looks like a red beet on the outside, but lo and behold all kinds of colors inside, they're really beautiful. If you slice them in wedges they have a nice sunset coloring from pale yellow to deep red. 

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