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Spring has Sprung and the Surrender Salmon is Running
Read more... →Salad Girl was introduced to Surrender Salmon by local foodie Weekly Dish talk show hostess and the brainchild of Makers of Minnesota Podcast, Stephanie Hansen. Stephanie suggested we reach out to see if Grant Niver would partner with us on some Spring recipes. Within a few days of our ask, I picked up some sushi grade frozen fillets of wild-caught sockeye Surrender salmon from my local fisherman. We cooked up a tasty “Poke Minnesota Bowl” & one of the best grilled fish taco recipes you will ever taste! Stay tuned for the fish taco recipe in May. It will be perfect for Cinco de...
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Pulses + Sunflower Seeds = Complete Protein
Read more... →During the cold & snowy Midwinter months, it is hard to just run to the grocery store, so I do a lot of dipping into what I call our staples or our "Pantry Foods" that we always have on hand: dried beans, pulses ( e.g. lentils, chickpeas, and beans ), legumes, bulgur, farro, quinoa, rice, nuts, and dried fruits. These provide ingredients for a cozy, warm winter soup or stew, but these same fixings also make wonderful ingredients for delicious, crunchy, and hearty Winter Pantry Salads. These salads are full of the right combos of grains, legumes, and nuts to give you...
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Easy Pleasy Heart Healthy Salad
Read more... →Nourish the ones you love by making this Easy Pleasy, delicious, and pretty Love Beet Salad. Just 5 simple ingredients and Voila~Dinner. Easy Add-Ons: ~ Roasted Wild Caught Shrimp ~ Bare Roasting Chicken Bites ~ Grilled Salmon...
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Green in the New Year
Read more... →Start your celebrating and your New Year right with these four healthy, organic Salad Girl recipes. Our Pomegranate Pear and our Citrus Splash Organic Dressings meet the Whole30 requirements. Come back to this post for delicious, unique appetizers for the Super Bowl.
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Inspiration for Holiday Entertaining
Read more... →Photographs often inspire our taste buds more than words this time of year. Share some Salad Girl cheer this Holiday Season with these 3 delectable recipes. Keep scrolling down to find a creative, delicious Salad Girl appetizer recipe. Relax, breathe, and enjoy family & friends. Happy Holidays!
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Chillin' Out...
Read more... →This is Salad Girl's busiest season, and I think we all tend to burn the candle at both ends because it is hard to say no to so many fun events and holiday foods. Finding balance with food, family, and fun is the key to a successful holiday and I have a couple of tips to share. Food: The season brings with it all the yummy traditional treats and foods that I love to share, make and eat. A good percentage of the traditional offerings are full of sugar and butter, baked and are delish! I am a healthy 62-year-old woman...
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Autumn Salads...
Read more... →As the leaves start to turn orange, yellow, and red, Autumn presents a hearty bounty. Fresh fennel, pears, parsnips, Brussel sprouts, figs, and squash come into their own during these cooler months and will make salads bright and fresh, warm and hearty, no matter if your salad is a main dish or an accompaniment. The addition of raw or roasted nuts, seeds, little jewel-toned bites of mixed dried fruit, and spicy rice crackers bring that extra crunch & color to these local, leafy recipes. Enjoy!
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Yes, we are still Celebrating National Mushroom Month!
Read more... →"Untamed Mushrooms: From Field To Table" www.untamedmushrooms.com . NATIONAL MUSHROOM MONTH National Mushroom Month is celebrated each year throughout the month of September. During this time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture takes advantage of the opportunity to educate people on the versatility mushrooms offer and on their health benefits. As a result, mushrooms are gaining more and more appreciation as we learn more about them. I am proud to say I found a great place to learn about mushrooms from an amazingly creative and talented food stylist named Lisa Golden Schroeder who I met through a volunteering gig with Roots for the Home...
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It's Stone Fruit Season
Read more... →Lots of recipes below -- keep scrolling down to find a favorite..or two...or three :) Nectarines, cherries, mangoes, apricots, peaches, and plums all fall under the name “stone fruits.” That’s because they contain large, hard seeds (relative to the size of their fruit). Feel free to call them by whatever name you please. I like to call them delicious, nutritious, and beautifully versatile! Right now is the best time to enjoy stone fruits because they are at their peak and available here in the Midwest at their best through September. Stone fruits can be grilled, sautéed, poached, baked, broiled, or...
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Sassy Side Salads & Slaws for Summer Entertaining
Read more... →Whether you serve these delicious side salads and slaws up in a bowl for your Memorial Day picnic or at a graduation party, these salads are all sans the "mayo" so safer to set out on a buffet table! Enjoy!
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Salad Girl, Dumpling, & Strand Minne-soba Noodle Salad
Read more... →Salad Girl + Dumpling & Strand Minnesoba Noodle Salad! Ingredients One 9 oz Package Dumpling & Strand Wild Rice MinneSoba Noodles cooked following package instructions and cooled and snipped into 2 inch strands with kitchen scissors 4 cups Dino Kale snipped off the rib and leaf snipped into 2 inch bite sized pieces 2 cups Sugar Snap Peas cut in diaganol 1/2 cup fresh spring chives chopped fine 1/2 cup fresh mint chopped fine 1/2 cup fresh basil chopped fine 1 cup crumbled walnuts 1 1/2 cups shredded Sartori 2 cups fresh Pea Sprouts for garnish 1 bottle Salad Girl...
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Salad Girl + Dumpling & Strand=Salad Love- By Kelly McManus
Read more... →SALAD GIRL, KISMET AND SOBA = A FOOD LOVE STORYKismet is an awesome word. Meaning destiny or fate, it’s an event that, when it happens to you, you simply want to revel in it ... and then say the word all day long. Kismet is what happened to us 3 years ago, and reveals itself in this recipe. But first some backstory. Back in September 2014, some friends and I bought tickets to local public artist, Seitu Jones, at his public art event CREATE: The Community Meal. The event gathered some 2,000 people at a ½ mile long table in the middle of Saint Paul’s Victoria...
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Minnesota Asian Greens Salad
Read more... →*“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career.” - Steve Jobs The quote above definitely holds true to the innovative patented growing technology utilized by the Living Greens Farm Folks, Faribault Mn. Living Greens Farm grows the freshest, most beautiful, lush, clean greens we have ever seen or tasted. I came across these lovely greens at one of my demos in the Fresh Thyme Farmers Market stores. I was amazed at the all of the beautiful varieties available & so...
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Time to Celebrate Stone Fruit
Read more... →Stone Fruits: Peaches, Nectarines, Plums, Apricots, and Cherries. Peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots, and cherries are all members of the Prunus genus and are therefore closely related. They commonly are referred to as "stone fruits" because the seed is very large and hard. Summer time is the ideal fresh stone fruit season, so let's celebrate these little beauties in some delicious salads! COLORADO PEACHES ARE HERE!
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Roasted Roots & Fruits Salad
Read more... →A mix of deeply flavorful roasted root veggies & vibrant citrus combined with some dark hardy leafy greens, crunchy walnuts, salty sweet ribbons of Sartori Bellavitano and Voila! This is the winter Salad that reflects the Joy I'm feeling on this sunny Wintery day.
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Add Some Color to Your Winter Blues
Read more... →Head on over to our friends at Jerry's Foods http://www.jerrysfoods.com/ this weekend to sample some really unique, delicious and colorful salad ingredients being served up with our Salad Girl Organic Dressings by the creative and talented folks from Jerry's Pantry. One of the most interesting and beautiful veggies they will be featuring is my favorite Winter radish: called The Misato rose or the Rose Heart or Beauty Heart or Watermelon Radish. You definitely can't judge this radish by its cover, because this little stealth of a winter root veggie looks like a simple turnip from the outside, but scrub the outer skin...
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Wild Fish Tacos & Tangy, Dapple Dandy Plum Slaw
Read more... →Summertime is Salad Time, and here at Salad Girl we love coming up with new, unique, seasonal salads-- especially when we can stretch our ingredients to create more than one delicious meal for you and your family. Last week, we introduced you to our favorite local fisherman and St. Paul Native, Matt Oxford. We purchased some of Matt's salmon at the White Bear Lake Farmers Market and made a yummy, grilled salmon salad. Then, we had friends over Friday evening for dinner and had enough leftover grilled salmon to serve fish tacos. Jimmy found gorgeous, Organic Dapple Dandy Plums at The...
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An "Honorable Mention" Three Bean Salad
Read more... →I never get tired of eating fresh green beans in the summertime! I have fond memories as a child looking forward to my Grandpa Sullivan arriving at our little summer cabin with a great big bag of his freshly picked green beans for us to help him prepare for our summer supper. We would give momma a break from at least 4 of the 7 kids, and sit with Grandpa down on the dock with a big silver colander on his lap. We sat with our tootsies in the lake tipping beans with Grandpa while eagerly reminiscing over our agate...
