I had this for the first time because my friend Annie brought it to a pot luck. It’s delicious, and happens to be healthy also (I think she may have said it comes from a South beach diet cookbook?). The purple cabbage is colorful and beautiful. A very easy, fast salad to make. Keeps great...
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One of the first videos I ever filmed was for this salad. It was short, and you really never got to see what the salad looked like (mostly, I just talked about it).
So, I just did another video of the same salad, and this time the camera is focused on the food. You’ll even learn...
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Years ago, I wanted to write a cookbook called Yuppie food made with white trash ingredients. This salad would have been included in that cookbook. You brown Ramen noodles in butter, for goodness sake. If that’s not lowbrow, I don’t know what is.
But when it’s all dressed and plated, it’s a beautiful salad, and everyone...
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Everyone loves Chinese Chicken Salad. First of all, everything is chopped up into small, fork sized pieces for you (all of my favorite salads are chopped salads), and then you have the added bang of the crispy won-tons (or chow mein noodles in this case). Top that with a fresh-tasting sprinkle of cilantro and …...
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For years, a favorite hang-out of mine has been California Pizza Kitchen. You know those restaurants, that you’re sure have lots of great food, but you can’t bring yourself to order anything but your usual selection?
For me, that’s the BBQ chopped chicken salad at California Pizza Kitchen (CPK for the cool kids). It was always...
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