The Bitten Word

Spring Green Salad

Martha Stewart Living (May 2009)

Sometimes it's hard to get excited about salad.  

Even if you have wonderful lettuce, as we often do from either our CSA or the farmers market, you can get into a salad rut.  We do -- going for weeks at a time eating greens with a simple dressing (most often a bit of oil and balsamic, maybe some lemon juice, maybe some mustard, a touch of honey, salt and pepper). 

It's delicious, but when you eat it several nights a week for several weeks, it loses its luster. 

Enter this rock-star salad -- a dish that will really freshen up your salad rotation.

Vodka Rosemary Lemonade Fizz

Gourmet (May 2009)

There's something extremely refreshing about incorporating fresh herbs into a cocktail. Like bitters, they can add a terrific, spicy, almost medicinal note that gives the drink a great depth of flavor -- and keeps the sweetness in check.

With summer beginning to warm up, we thought this Vodka Rosemary Lemon Fizz would make a perfect pre-dinner drink.