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Black Rice Salad with Red Cabbage and herbs

January 10, 2025 by Emily

Sticky Lemongrass Chicken with Black Rice Salad

This beautiful, healthy Black Rice Salad is studded with crunchy red cabbage and loaded with fresh herbs.

Homemade Taco seasoning

June 13, 2024April 5, 2024 by Emily

Complex, savory and a touch spicy, our homemade taco seasoning is a quick and easy way to add a ton of flavor to any dish. It tastes so much better than store-bought!

There’s nothing wrong with the bottles of tonic you find in any grocery store, but once you make homemade tonic, it’s hard to go back. It has so much more flavor! Bursting with citrus, spices, and herbs, it’s the perfect balance of sour, sweet, bitter, herbal and floral.

Homemade Chili Crisp

June 13, 2024January 17, 2022 by Matt

This chunky blend of crispy shallots and garlic infused in aromatic chili oil becomes a spicy topping that goes with meat, fish, eggs, tofu … or just about anything.

Blood Orange and Endive Salad with Pickled Red Onions

January 8, 2025March 22, 2021 by Emily

Salads don’t have to be green to be healthy. In early spring, our vitamin-depleted bodies crave fresh citrus salad: sweet and tart blood oranges combined with crisp endive, pickled red onion and some crunchy toppings.

Swedish Cucumber Salad with Red Onion and Dill

June 13, 2024January 17, 2021 by Emily

Swedish Cucumber with Dill is fresh, light and full of sweet, tart flavor. We added quick pickled red onions to ours for color and flavor. Make it alongside Swedish meatballs, or anytime you need a quick, delicious salad.

Cucumbers are one of our favorite vegetables and we make some form of quick pickles at least once a week, if not more. I love them Asian-style, with rice vinegar and toasted sesame oil, especially along with Vietnamese-style Baked Chicken or any roasted meat.

When we decided to make Swedish Meatballs, I knew we had to also make the traditional side dish, a sweet and sour quick-pickled Swedish cucumber salad flavored with dill. We added red onions, because they add great flavor and color to the dish. If onions are not your thing, feel free to leave them out and just serve the cucumbers on their own.