Salads

Beet Salad with Peach Vinaigrette

I’m currently designing a few easy salads that I can keep in the fridge and eat throughout the week, the first of which is this roasted beet salad with peach vinaigrette. My intention is to get my fridge to look a little like the prepared foods section of Whole Foods. It’s so easy to make…

Purple Cabbage & Persimmon

Purple Cabbage Salad with Persimmon and Nuts

When we first moved to Israel, our neighbors invited us over for a Shabbat dinner. In typical Israeli fashion, the first course included several types of salad. Salads here aren’t the typical bed of greens with a slice of tomato on the top, they are much more complex and diverse than that. I always leave…

Lentil Salad with Herbs

Lentil Salad with Herbs

Have you heard of the blue zones? They’re the five places on earth where people live the longest. These five places have a few things in common, one of which is a diverse diet that is largely plant-based. Ikaria, an Island in Greece, is one of these blue zones. On Ikaria, residents follow a Mediterranean…