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Summer Panzanella Salad Recipe

Maris Callahan — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:38:49 +0000

Sometimes when I cook, the recipe turns out exactly like I’d imagined it. Other times, not so much. One Christmas I tried to make peppermint stick sugar cookies and instead, they turned out looking more like misshapen lumps of pepto bismol pink dough sticks, better suited for the bottom of the trash bin than for a festive dessert platter. Another time, I attempted key lime bars and the color that the neon lime zest produced when I whipped it with egg yolks and condensed milk can only be described as…well, I would rather not describe it. I’m trying to be appetizing here. I am not trying to shill platitudes or sing songs here about how recipes don’t always turn out according to plan but that occasionally, the best kitchen messes turn into successes. The point that I’m getting at is that even though not all recipes turn out as planned, sometimes they are every bit as good as you hope they’ll be; sometimes even better. So today, I’m here to tell you to make panzanella. I understand that there is irony between making a salad, eating a salad and putting bread in your salad but it really is probably one of the […]

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Three Tomato Panzanella Salad

Maris Callahan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:22:55 +0000

Today, we’re talking about Karma. Well. Also, tomato panzanella but first, karma. It’s a little word with great significance. A five letter word without any complication – no double consonants, no silent H – and seems totally harmless. It’s a five letter word that, if you’re not careful, can really come back to kick you in the behind. It’s been a long August. I’m not sure what my karmic wrongdoing was to garner such bad luck but the past few weeks have not exactly been filled with sunshine and puppies. I say this not to complain, but to give you a little bit of background on my past 31 days: My cell phone and laptop were simultaneously destroyed in Spilled Glass Of Water 2009 (I sure hope the folks at Apple aren’t reading this after I told the poor tech guy “GEE I HAVE NO IDEA WHY MY COMPUTER WAS WET.”) My iPod broke down and though it has since started working again, I had a long week of workouts narrated by the hum of the treadmill conveyor belt. Brutal. My oven burned out (yes, apparently that is possible) on August 1. Repairman finally fixed the oven on August 28. […]

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