Category Archives: Salad

A Duo of Healthy Bites – Part 2, Checca (Italian Tomato Salad)

Checca (pronounced kekka) is Italian for an uncooked tomato salad with herbs. Picture summer’s ripest tomatoes dressed with a drizzle of olive oil and a handful of fresh basil, punctuated with minced garlic. It’s the kind of dish you eat with a fork in one hand and hunks of warm focaccia in the other. Simple,...

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Summer Celebration Fruit Salad

We try to get to the farmers market every Saturday. Our most recent find was a super fragrant cantaloupe that completely filled the car with it’s sweet aroma on our ride home. I know, I know. Posting a recipe for fruit salad is rather silly. But isn’t it the prettiest? I couldn’t pass up the...

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