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Pesto, Barley & Edamame Salad

Maris Callahan — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 05:00:42 +0000

One of my favorite parts about where I live is that I have friends close by. This is convenient and enjoyable for many reasons, but the at the top of the list is probably the sentence: “I made extra __________ for dinner, want to come over?” I’ve been on both the uttering and receiving end of that very sentence a pleasant many times and most recently, the stars aligned when I had extra salmon and my neighbor had extra salad. Combined, we had an actual meal. Though I’ve never been disappointed by one of my friend Angie’s Greek or spinach salads (she makes kick-ass salad dressings and I wouldn’t say that lightly), this was a nice change from leafy greens. Think: flavorful pesto sauce combined with hearty barley dotted with edamame. There is nothing bad about anything in that sentence and it was even better cold the next day. The recipe was slightly adapted from another food blog. We had a little snafu during the pesto-making process and wound up adding extra lemon juice as well as spinach to the pesto recipe, only to discover that we kinda liked it that way. Though the spinach wasn’t in the original version, I am […]

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Pear Salad with Bacon, Gorgonzola & Toasted Walnuts

Maris Callahan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:00:00 +0000

Last week, I made dinner for a boy. I made pasta deliciousness and a pear salad with bacon and gorgonzola because boys like bacon. I say that with tongue in cheek because they’re not really still boys at 28. (Or are they? Married ladies, you tell me). I made dinner for a date and this is the part where I’m going to come clean and confess something. Despite the fact that my ideal day includes spending six hours in the kitchen with a thin film of flour coating my shirt, and despite the fact that I publish a website where I write recipes, I had not one freaking clue what I was going to cook until the night before dinner, when I stood in Trader Joe’s staring at the shopping list I’d haphazardly jotted down at 7:30 a.m. as though it was penned in Greek. And I don’t understand Greek. When you’re cooking with someone new, particularly when it’s someone who knows that you write a website about cooking, you might find yourself feeling a little bit oh, pressured to make a good meal. When you’ve claimed over drinks that you’d like to one day attend culinary school, it goes without […]

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