This is a tasty salad, a bit time consuming, but worth it. Potlucks are some of the best places to catch a new recipe worth your time, so thanks Tee for this one. You have to blanch the Brussels sprouts first and then peal them off as leaves to put into the salad. Then you mix all the right stuff from arugula to almonds and Parmesan together for a hearty and crunchy salad. It’s a hit!
Brussels Sprouts & Arugula Salad Recipe ->
If you love food and love letting yourself free in a food experience for the eyes, you can spend a lot of time at the International Food Bazaar in San Jose going back time and time again to look through all of the products. I love Israeli pickles and found them in the mix of tons of other Middle Eastern products. IFB sells Middle Eastern Specialty foods including kosher, Russian, Bosnian, European, Middle Eastern, Persian, Greek, and Turkish products in the South Bay San Jose Area (Campbell to be specific).
We bought a huge piece of Afghan Bread from their very large bread section and made a fast dinner with our already prepared Arugula-Pistachio Pesto.
When I lived in Sydney, Australia I ate the most fabulous vegetarian pizza called Arrostito topped with roasted vegetables, cherry tomatoes, and goat cheese at Arthur’s Pizza in Paddington. I recreated a version of these toppings below for a pizza combo that loves to impress.
Arugula-Pistachio Pesto Pizza Recipe Click to continue »
I am getting better and better at creatively throwing together the ingredients that I randomly have in my refrigerator with the last of my CSA food box veggies. Sometimes the concoctions are somewhat edible and sometimes there is a tasty recipe that comes out of googling various ingredients in order to compile a worthwhile creation to share! And yes, I am behind on the CSA food box weeks but I am still keeping the week numbers in sequence to make myself feel better. This is a great summer salad and I actually made a Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette Recipe from the Big Sur Bakery Cookbook instead of the dressing with this Serious Eats Recipe below. I will list the Meyer Lemon Dressing recipe in the next post. It is a total California recipe and it adds additional uniqueness locally grown goods to this salad.
CSA Food Box Ingredients: