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More Lettuce: Inside-Out BLT

August 15, 2023

A sandwich that wanted to be a salad. To take advantage of cheap, plentiful summer greens at their seasonal peak. The lettuce is on the outside and the bread's on the inside. An all-American BLT. Just a little confused.

No tomatoes. Watermelon. Gazpacho.

August 12, 2023

Still a few weeks before we get great tomatoes here. But the watermelon's perfect. For gazpacho. Could be your first course. Or your dessert. A cool, refreshing, flavorful way to start or finish a Summer meal.

Spicy Cool: Cucumber-Yogurt-Mint Soup

August 10, 2023

A very aromatic, very summery, very light but yogurt-rich soup. Five minutes of preparation. A great Way to use the summer cucumbers now filling the Farmers Markets. Or the two-pounder I just grew.

Seven Layer Salad, Asian style

August 9, 2023

A salad you make a day or two in advance, store in the fridge, then serve crisp and cool when you're ready. More than 7 flavors and hundreds of phytonutrients. A Glycemic Load of zero with a very, very low calorie count.

Zucchini Carpaccio

August 8, 2023

Big fresh flavor. Light and refreshing. Impressively beautiful. A very cool dish for a very hot day. No cooking. Five minutes of slicing and dicing. In advance. Then just chill.

Does Weight Gain Make You Hungry?

August 5, 2023

Sound backwards? Maybe not. Maybe gaining weight and storing fat really does make you hungry. Makes you eat more. And store more fat. Here's how and why it might be true. And why weight loss can be difficult to accomplish.

80 Ways: Horchata. A Vegan Milk Shake.

August 3, 2023

Looks and feels like milk. It's lactose-free and gluten-free. Tastes like a glass of thick, frothy milk with a peanut butter cookie built in. In South America, it's a traditional, refreshing and delicious beverage. You should know about this.

80 Ways: Farro becomes Tabbouleh

August 2, 2023

Nutty, slightly chewy farro glossed with a bright, tart and pungent lemon-garlic dressing. Enough fresh parsley to make this a real green salad. Cool mint and cucumber. Sweet, bright tomatoes. A serious mouthful.

80 Ways: Caesar Salad: rub, whisk, toss

August 1, 2023

Summer's easiest classic. Crisp and cool. Rich and creamy, but creamless. Bright and fragrant. Zero Glycemic Load. Make it in 3 minutes flat. Less than $2 for a main course salad. It's hot out there. Be cool.

80 Ways: Soda Pop. Better and Cheaper.

July 29, 2023

80 recipes based on traditional healthy cuisines around the globe. Today, it's a Way to tasty, refreshing, bubbly beverages made the way humans made them just before Coke and Pepsi persuaded folks to drink high Glycemic Load colas.