When the temperatures dips, my salad cravings shift from light and crisp to dense and hearty. So here’s some serious fall salad inspo: Massaged Lacinato Kale with Roasted Sweet Potato, Apple and Toasted Hazelnuts. Top it with roasted chicken (store-bought rotisserie!) or salmon, or baked tofu and it’s a complete meal.
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Let’s just absolutely butcher a traditional Caesar salad, shall we? Meet my Caesar-ish Kale and Roasted Broccoli Salad with Avocado and Toasted Walnuts.
First, we trade romaine for massaged kale, and croutons for deeply toasted walnuts. The kale allows you to make this Caesar-ish kale salad days ahead with no sacrifice in crunch. I prefer walnuts to croutons only because I’m almost always eating a salad like this with pizza or pasta. I’m all about carbs but also like to diversify my plate.
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Sometimes the best recipes are the simplest. It feels strange to share a recipe without a particularly original take, or an interesting ingredient or preparation, but is that what we always need? No. We need recipes that make getting a delicious and nourishing meal on the table the slightest bit easier. Recipes that taste as good on day one as day four and are highly tweakable so you never have to eat the same thing twice.
Enter this Kale and Brussels Sprouts Salad Base for All Winter Long.
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Kale and squash are two of my kitchen staples in the fall and winter. In fact, they have already been so heavily in rotation around here that you’d think I was on a mission to see how quickly I can burn myself out. (For the record, I’m not even close.)
While they are a perfect match in salad, sometimes a girl just wants pasta – kale pesto pasta with roasted butternut squash and mint to be exact. The kale lends its signature grassy flavor to the pesto, which is captured by the curves and grooves of al dente fusilli. The deeply roasted butternut squash provides caramelized sweetness and the mint a hit of freshness.
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This is just a slight variation of a much-loved salad of ours from Food52. Like the best recipes out there, Food52’s dish can act as a road map. Sub roasted squash for the sweet potato like we did here, sub dried dates in for the pomegranate seeds; take it the Mexican route by leaving out the dried fruit, subbing in scallion for the roasted red onion, pepitas for the walnuts, and cilantro for the mint…you get the idea.
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