Celery Salad with Dried Cherries + Almonds

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Celery Salad with Dried Cherries + Almonds

I’m not sure that I heard of a celery salad prior to dinner at Ava Gene’s. I didn’t have the salad when we had dinner there but it didn’t leave my mind. I did a search for celery salad recently and came across a recipe on Bon Appetit, and as it happens this recipe was part of a series of salads from Ava Gene’s! 

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I Heart Salad

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I Heart Salad

I know Valentine’s Day can be full of cliches, red, chocolate, all things heart-shaped, but I couldn’t resist making this salad. This year we’re going to have dinner at home, with this salad, and some homemade strawberry chocolate chunk ice cream, champagne and…

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Pear Fennel Salad with Colatura + Pine Nuts

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Pear Fennel Salad with Colatura + Pine Nuts

Colatura? Maybe you’re familiar with this but I had never heard of it until a recent dinner at Ava Gene’s here in Portland. It was in a salad named “Pear. Fennel. Pine Nuts. Colatura. Scallions”, the salad was delicious with surprises of fresh mint and hot pepper. 

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Black Quinoa + Roasted Vegetable Bowl

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Black Quinoa + Roasted Vegetable Bowl

This is the holiday balance for me. Between pies and cookies and candies, I start to crave vegetables before going into full sugar overload. I came across a recipe recently, well not so much a recipe but a deconstruction of Harlow’s Betty Bowl. 

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Indigo Rose Tomato Salad with Basil Vinaigrette

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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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