French Salad Niçoise. – Global Flavors Recipe Cards

Following my last blog I wanted to share a salad that embodies the essence of the Mediterranean diet: Salad Niçoise. This is the most famous of all French salads. Its name comes from the city of Nice, on the Côte d’Azur in Provence, France. This French recipe employs tuna, green beans, hard boiled eggs, tomatoes, onion, capers, and potatoes.  Essentially it is similar to our American Cobb salad except for fish, beans and potatoes instead of chicken, bacon and avocado.

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Hong Kong Lamb with Green Onions – Global Flavors Recipe Cards

I was flicking through one of my favorite Asian cookbooks the other day and came across a recipe I hadn’t tried before – Hong Kong Lamb with Green Onions Cong Bao Yang Roll.  It is a recipe from Madhur Jaffrey’s Far Eastern Cookery.  Seeing that I wrote a recent blog about why Americans should eat more lamb, I decided to try it this evening and it was so good that I wanted to share.

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Can only the pure in heart make a good soup?

“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup” according to famous composer Ludwig Van Beethoven.  As outlandish as this statement appears at first sight, maybe there’s a grain of truth.  Because I think what he was trying to say is that anyone can make a good soup if they try hard enough.  A good soup doesn’t depend on precise measurement and exact timings.  It just needs a large pot, a handful of ingredients and a little devotion to the cause.

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Healthy No-Cook Meals – Essential Nutrition During a Power Outage

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I have been one of the lucky few.  However, not so much for others this week finding themselves without power, water and safe drinking water in perishingly cold weather for several days.  Eating becomes a survival imperative rather than a culinary experience under such testing circumstances.  Shopping for food – whether it involves selecting ingredients or dining out – is a factor of what you can find rather than what you set out to get.  And what you cook is limited to what’s in the pantry and what you manage to lay your hands on in the grocery store.  Even with the experience and lessons learned from seasonal hurricanes I don’t think any of us anticipated how challenging this week would be.  But with the benefit of hindsight here are some healthy no-cook meals I may try to plan in advance next time.

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