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Flashback to the Seventies: Red Onion Cucumber Salad

Posted May 28th 2009 11:00AM by Bruce Watson
Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, America, Comfort Food, Retro cookery, Soups/Salads, Spring, Summer

In this weekly series, home cook Bruce Watson works his way through a decades-old family cookbook, adapting the best recipes exclusively for Slashfood.

When I have access to fresh produce, cucumber season becomes one of my favorite times of the year. Although it runs from May to August, the wonderful green beauties won't reach their full flourish until later in the summer. Still, it's hard to resist the cool, summery flavor of the first cukes of the season. With that in mind, I decided to flip through my family cookbook in search of some great cucumber recipes.

My Aunt Renie's cucumber salad manages to halve the distance between sharp and smooth, sweet and sour, creamy and intense. In my adjusted version, I cut back on the onions, switched in Greek yogurt and tossed in some fresh dill.

The final version had the soothing coolness of a traditional cucumber salad, but also retained a nice vinegar tang that keeps me on my toes. This is great by itself, or as an accompaniment to barbecue or any other strongly seasoned dish.

Get the cucumber salad recipe after the jump!

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Flashback to the Seventies: Spinach Dip

Posted May 6th 2009 1:00PM by Bruce Watson
Filed under: Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, Recipes, America, Comfort Food, Retro cookery, Soups/Salads

In this weekly series, home cook Bruce Watson works his way through a decades-old family cookbook, adapting the best recipes exclusively for Slashfood.

In my family cookbook, there is a recipe for "Mabel's Spinach Spread," a gelatin-thickened dip that was developed by one of my Aunt Evie's foodie friends. Although the original concoction contains a startling quantity of mayonnaise and a lot of added salt, the basic idea of a molded-gelatin dip was somewhat compelling. Gelatin, after all, is basically a fat-free, sugar-free protein that is, allegedly, great for hair and fingernails. Best of all, it can help a dip to stiffen up without the introduction of cream cheese or some other dense fat.

This recipe combines a basic spinach spread with some Greek flavor notes. The yogurt base is creamy, yet fat free, and the feta greatly reduces the need for added salt. Best of all, the fresh flavors of this dip make it a great, easy-to-prepare snack for long summer afternoons. The recipe after the jump.

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Recipe: Greek yogurt cupcakes

Posted May 10th 2008 4:00PM by Emily Matchar
Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Baking, On the Blogs

One of the best things about living half a mile from Trader Joe's is access to cheap Greek yogurt. Thick and tart, Greek yogurt gets its rich texture from straining, not from stabilizers, and lacks that sometimes slimy feel of many commercial American brands. Full-fat Greek yogurt mixed with honey and nuts makes for the most hearty, luxurious breakfast; it's also terrific doctored up with lemon juice, salt and paprika and used as sauce for cold chicken or lamb.

Gena, over at Big City, Little Kitchen, has found another great use for Greek yogurt: cupcakes. She simply used full-fat Fage (pronounced fah-yeh) as a substitute for sour cream in a Gourmet golden cake recipe. Though the yogurt is dense, the cupcakes came out as light and fluffy as if she'd beaten in egg whites. Mixed with sugar, butter, and lemon juice, it made a tart, cream cheese-like frosting. As a lover of sweet-sour yogurt gelato, I say mmmmm!

The New York Times in 60 Seconds: Pub crawls, crispy tofu and cannoli ice cream cones

Posted Apr 14th 2008 10:00AM by Ellen Slattery
Filed under: Newspapers, In Sixty Seconds

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Flashback to the Seventies: Red Onion Cucumber Salad

Flashback to the Seventies: Spinach Dip

Recipe: Greek yogurt cupcakes

The New York Times in 60 Seconds: Pub crawls, crispy tofu and cannoli ice cream cones

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