Category Archives: Salads

Scallop Season: Is it the Most Wonderful Time of the Year?

It was the beaming faces of Facebook friends holding up gallon bags of the sweet morsels dropped off by fishermen friends that reminded me that it was that wonderful time of year, scallop season in Maine. We quickly started scouring the usual roadside spots for the beautiful treats. Searching for scallops is a bit of a hardship for […]

A Haunting Coffee Roasted Beet Salad from Ravens Nest

“I was at your wonderful restaurant last weekend… I cannot get your Beet Salad out of my mind, it was so delicious! How do you coffee roast beets? Is that what makes the salad it so amazing?” – email from a diner at Ravens Nest. Rich and I spent this past summer in Winter Harbor  conceiving, […]

Classic Dijon Dressing for Spinach Salad & Coffee Roasted Beet Salad

Lets just consider this post one of the fundamentals. It’s like the Chicken Stock post, a base recipe that will serve you well in all the cooking you do.This dressing is a classic French dressing, we used it on our Spinach Salad at Cleonice, which I’ll add soon. When I made this dressing the first […]