I hope you all have a wonderful long weekend and are able to enjoy fireworks! I'll be making salad for my family's celebration, duh, and also probably a potato salad and another blueberry rhubarb pie. Here's what I've been reading & eating this week:
Two Older Salad Recipes I Love and Cycle Back To: Watermelon Radishes with Burrata and Nancy's Chopped Salad
A Delicious New Sweetgreen Salad: Mexican Corn Elote Bowl
Curious what's in season where you are?: Food Geeks' have a great database
Martha Stewart posted a great summer lettuce guide: There's So Much You Can Do with Lettuce! and a great article on Cindy Daniel and Doug Lipton, the owners of Shed, A Locavore Mecca in beautiful and amazing Healdsberg, CA, and of course check out their recipe for Charred Cucumber and Radish Salad with Yogurt t
And on a slightly off-topic note: The New York Times Food Department did a blind, hot dog taste-test which stuck a chord for me because last weekend, my brother and I grilled hot dogs out of nostalgia and in memory of our grandfather who loved them and made them for us when we were kids