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French Fridays with Dorie: Chunky beets and icy red onions

cookbooks, Dorie Greenspan, FFWDorie, salad | September 2, 2016July 1, 2011 by Mardi Michels

When I saw this week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe involved beets I wasn’t too excited. Beets and I have a love-hate relationship, starting with hate when I was very young and the only beets I ever knew were from a can. Eew! I have had some spectacular beets in the past year or so, … Read more

Salad days

fruit, IFBC, kitchen bootcamp, Ontario Tender Fruit Producers, recipes, salad, vegetables | September 4, 2016August 24, 2010 by Mardi Michels

We interrupt this Road Trip and its gourmandises for a much-needed post about … salad. Yes, dad this is for you. How you can have lived with a wife and at least one daughter who would live on salad if they had the choice and still find it boring is beyond me. So I am … Read more