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winter greens and apple salad with hard-boiled egg and pecorino: soup (and salad) on!

Have a happy weekend, folks and make a pot of soup. And then make the salad below to accompany it!

The picture is woeful, I’m not gonna lie. And with all apologies to my favorite ladies at food52, your salad was both gorgeous and delicious, but somehow it managed to not get captured on film in a respectable manner. But just humor me and make this salad anyway. You will love it, I promise (unless you’re allergic to any of the ingredients, in which case my imaginary lawyer has reminded me to tell you to that you will not, and should not enjoy it).

And just buy the pomegranate molasses already. It’s delicious. I found mine at Surfa’s-- you can order online here. It’s a great secret pantry staple that can be drizzled on fruit, yogurt, ice cream and cakes in addition to making excellent dressings. AND it makes a great baste for game meats. 

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PostedFebruary 24, 2012
Authormelissa mcclure
Categoriessalad, vegetarian
Tagsgreens, recipe, soupapalooza!, pomegranate molases, apple, pecorino, eggcellent, arugula, food52
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butternut squash and apple with blue cheese: Halloween came a little early this year

Halloween came a week early this year when I came perilously close to chopping the tip of my left thumb off. It’s been months since my last knife wound thanks in part to knife skills lessons from various and sundry professionals (thank you, Obi Wan) and from a year’s worth of diligent practice; but it was like Dan Akroyd’s Julia Child from the late 1970’s SNL skit where blood just shoots out all over the place in a fountain of red corn syrup. Hilarious. Only mine was plasma and platelets which are apparently necessary to sustain human life. Anyway, I spent a large part of the afternoon with my left hand propped over my head wrapped in a roll of paper towels trying to avoid a trip to the emergency room for stitches since I let my health insurance lapse a few weeks ago. Eventually the bleeding slowed enough for me coat the digit with enough neosporin to support two girls in a mud wrestling vat and to dress it with a sterile bandage and cover it with a rubber glove so I could continue cooking.

And that wasn’t the only creepy occurrence. 

There was this little thing a while back where my subconscious rendered an ex boyfriend dead. As in totally kaput. Morto.

Yes, I had a dream, but not a dream in a MLK or a copper pot kind of way, oh no. It was like when Jimmy Smitts was written out of NYPD Blue: there were tears and there was pleading and then the dude died. As in dead. As disco. And I woke up sweaty and full of guilt and shame (guilt because I realized the One Night Stand-Up was sleeping next to me, and shame because technically I should now refer to him as the “Two Night Stand-Up”, which isn’t nearly as funny).   

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PostedOctober 28, 2010
Authormelissa mcclure
Categoriesvegetarian, soup
TagsGorgeous G, apple pie ice cream, goat cheese w/ pistachio, cranberry & toasts, spinach and gruyere stuffed mushrooms, sunday bloody sunday, soup, butternut squash, blue cheese, killing off ex boyfriends, Chef Kenobi, soupapalooza!, cheesy, apple, romaine and flash pickled fig salad, thumbs up, One Night Stand Up
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