Blogs Posts on "Salad And Dressings"

Zahtar, a Pantry Special (Recipe: fattoush, a salad of pita bread, tomato and cucumber) by The Perfect Pantry on Oct 22, 2009Pantry Specials are great ingredients that find their way into my pantry from time to time, but not all the time. In this occasional series of short posts, you'll find information and recipes for foods that might not be on your local supermarket's sh...

Low-carb pasta (Recipe: Broccoli, basil and pasta salad) by The Perfect Pantry on Sep 22, 2009Adapted in part from an archived post, with new photos, links and printer-friendly recipe. Over the past few years, as more and more companies have jumped on the low-carbohydrate bandwagon, I've tasted some pretty dreadful products masquerading as he...

Slow-roasted tomatoes (Recipe: corn, bean, and two tomato salad) by The Perfect Pantry on Aug 25, 2009With any luck, the next time you see these tomatoes, they'll look like this: For the past few weeks, the deer have been feasting on my only tomato plant, a San Marzano varietal I bought at our local organic gardening center, but a few days ago, again...

Fresh herbs (Recipe: fava bean salad) by The Perfect Pantry on Aug 16, 2009Would you call me a food snob? I drink Fresca, sing the praises of Miracle Whip, and make a great chicken salad from a boxed rice mix. My pantry harbors no-boil lasagne noodles, curry powder, broccoli slaw and discos -- all convenience foods. Yet, fr...

Fish sauce (Recipe: Thai beef salad) by The Perfect Pantry on Aug 11, 2009You watched it, didn't you? The finale of The Next Food Network Star? Somewhat predictably, the judges selected the mother-of-four whose show could have broad appeal in these challenging economic times. But I was pulling for the other guy, the one wh...

Miracle Whip (Recipe: chipotle chicken sandwich) by The Perfect Pantry on Jul 28, 2009Today I stand before you, unapologetic and unashamed, confessing, as I do every summer, my love for Miracle Whip®, the salad dressing that cannot, by law, be called mayonnaise. What can I say in my defense? That, when I was young, my father used to...

Japanese rice vinegar (Recipe: cucumber ribbon salad) by The Perfect Pantry on Jul 23, 2009What's now called Boston's Leather District used to be a gritty few blocks of warehouse buildings filled with tanneries and industrial yarn makers, and publishing companies looking for cheap office space. Thirty years ago I worked for one of those pu...

Orzo, and other small pasta (Recipe: cold curried orzo) by The Perfect Pantry on Jul 21, 2009Poor orzo. Compared to the other small, stubby pastas, with lyrical names like ditalini (little thimbles), annelini (little rings), acini de pepe (little beads), tubettini (little tubes), tripolini (little bows) and stelline (little stars), orzo soun...

Artificial sweetener (Recipe: asparagus, nectarine and tomato salad) by The Perfect Pantry on Jul 16, 2009Some pantry ingredients make life worth living. Others make life livable. In the first group: chocolate, balsamic vinegar, parmigiano-reggiano. In the second group: Fresca, fat-free yogurt, artificial sweetener. A gourmet ingredient it is not, but in...

Sherry vinegar (Recipe: bread salad with roasted tomato vinaigrette) by The Perfect Pantry on Jul 9, 2009Ten things I know about sherry vinegar (you'll be glad to know them, too): In the beginning, nobody set out to make sherry vinegar. It was a mistake, the result of poor wine making or sherry barrels that had accumulated too much acidity. Embarrassed...