Recipes

Watermelon Salad with Herbed Yogurt Sauce

Salads

This watermelon salad recipe is so delicious and refreshing! It features cubed ripe watermelon over mint-basil yogurt sauce, with cucumber, shallot and fresh herbs. Recipe yields 6 to 8 side servings.

Ingredients:  Watermelon salad   3 pounds ripe seedless watermelon (about ½ smal...

Basic Blueberry Smoothie

Breakfast

Make this blueberry smoothie for breakfast! This smoothie recipe is creamy, luscious and so nutritious. You’ll need frozen blueberries and bananas, almond butter and almond milk. Recipe yields 2 servings (about 4 cups); you can easily halve or double the recipe.

Ingredients:  1 ½ cups to 2 cups unsweetened vanilla almond milk or water 1 ½ cups froze...

Orange, Apricot and Carrot Couscous

Sides

A quick couscous salad featuring a delicate balance of sweet, crunchy and tangy winter flavors. Be sure to have your ingredients prepped before you set the pot on the stove to start boiling, because once that happens, this salad comes together very quickly.

Ingredients:  1 cup whole-wheat couscous ½ cup water 1 cup orange juice (preferably fres...

Green Bean Salad with Toasted Almonds & Feta

Sides

This green bean salad is the best! Perfectly cooked green beans are tossed in a lemony dressing with toasted almonds, feta and basil. Recipe yields 4 side servings.

Ingredients:    ⅓ cup sliced almonds 1 pound green beans, trimmed and cut into 2 ...

Roasted Beet Salad with Goat Cheese & Pistachios

Salads

This classic roasted beet salad recipe is like my favorite French restaurants’ beet salads! This salad features goat cheese, pistachios and arugula with a zippy Dijon dressing. Recipe yields 4 to 6 side servings.

Ingredients:  Salad 1 ½ pounds beets (about 3 large or 5 small-t...

Pineapple Salsa

Appetizers

This fresh pineapple salsa recipe will be a big hit at your next party! It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and 100% delicious. It’s easy to make, too. Recipe yields 3 ½ cups; double it if you’re serving a crowd (1 extra-large pineapple should be just right).

Ingredients:  3 cups diced fresh pineapple (about 1 medium) 1 red bell pepper, chopped &fr...

Watermelon Mimosia

Appetizers

These watermelon mimosas are a refreshing summer brunch cocktail. They’re great any time of day, really! Recipe yields enough watermelon juice to make one Champagne bottle’s worth of mimosas (that’s 6 to 8 mimosas, depending on how boozy you like them).

Ingredients:  ⅓ medium watermelon, preferably chilled (seedless watermelon is the easiest to work with, but...

Chopped Greek Salad

Salads

This Greek salad recipe is the best! It features chopped romaine lettuce and colorful garden vegetables, plus irresistible olives, feta cheese, and a simple Greek vinaigrette. Recipe yields 6 to 8 side servings or 3 to 4 meal-sized servings (that’s a lot of salad!). If you store the salad separately from the vinaigrette, it will keep well for up to 4 days.

Ingredients:  Greek Salad   10 ounces chopped romaine lettuce* (about 2 mediu...

Crisp Apple & Kohlrabi Salad

Salads

This super simple kohlrabi salad features honeycrisp apple, lemon, tarragon and olive oil! It’s a delicious and unique fall side salad. You’ll love it! Recipe yields 4 side servings or 2 large.

Ingredients:  2 small kohlrabi (about 1 pound, I used the green variety but purple would be prettie...

Roasted Cauliflower Steak

Sides

Follow this foolproof recipe for beautifully caramelized cauliflower steaks! Serve your cauliflower steak as a side dish or meal component. Recipe yields about 3 “steaks” plus several smaller pieces of roasted cauliflower (yield will vary depending on the size of your cauliflower).

Ingredients:    1 large, dense head of cauliflower 1 to 2 tablespoons extra virgin...

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