salads

The Guardian of London ponders the proper way to complain at a restaurant if the food or service isn't to your liking, but the best part is the way chefs respond. One chef: "Once, at La Noisette, some customers were rude to my staff, which I won't tolerate, and they refused to leave when we asked them to. I pulled away their table and they sat there in their chairs looking extremely foolish." Another chef issued the following one-liner when a salad was returned with a Band-Aid in it: "I bet they didn't ex  

Are you good at tossing off interesting new salad ideas in your kitchen? Starting this week, local salad chain Dressed has a contest inviting customers to create new roughage combinations. Any local resident can submit ideas for a new green entree.  

First lady Michelle Obama received a few gardening tips from students Wednesday as she toured a Northern Virginia elementary school's vegetable garden. Mrs. Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visited Hollin Meadows Elementary in Alexandria to promote the Obama administration's HealthierUS Schools initiative. Students showed the first lady how they harvested lettuce from the school's extensive garden that will be used in the salad at a special Thanksgiving luncheon later this week.

If anyone has kids, you know they need ... some exercise to focus   -Michelle Obama

 

Dinner in the new restaurant at Tulsa's most revered hotel, all gussied up for new generations of visitors and guests. An executive chef recruited from a fancy hotel in the shadow of the White House. A pleasant November evening with good friends and good conversation, part of a bustling and festive weekend crowd.  

A creative side dish from Randy Zweiban, chef at the West Loop restaurant Province. Rather than toss some greens and dressing together and call it a day, ABC7's Hungry Hound found a local chef who's idea of an autumn salad is more about the texture than anything else. As Chef at the seasonally-driven Province in the West Loop, he's always picking up items from the weekly Green City Market.  

Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Slice acorn squash into rounds that are about 1 inch thick in width. Slice kabocha squash into half moon shaped slices also about 1 inch thick.  

With holidays coming up very quickly, local folks can enjoy a special dining experience at the Kahala Hotel and Resort. For the past 10 years, executive chef Wayne Hirabayashi has expertly directed The Kahala's culinary operations. He aims to keep The Kahala Hotel and Resort at the crest of emerging food trends, and says, "I will continue the tradition of using fresh produce and Island products, but I also strive to identify new trends and flavors that we can incorporate into our cuisine."  

The latest foodie app to hit Facebook is a kid-friendly produce personality quiz that seeks to discover whether you think like an eggplant or a beet. There's no intellectual heavy lifting here, just a lighthearted series of questions probing favorite sports and preferred zoo creatures. Still, we were astounded by the program's acumen when it proclaimed us to be "daring, bold, venturesome" tomatoes — why yes, yes we are.  

It's Sunday night and I've just come off an 11-hour flight rumpled and cross-eyed after reading the last installment of Steig Larsson's "Millennium" trilogy straight through. When my friend picks me up at the airport, she reminds me that I'd asked her to make a reservation at Eva for their prix fixe Sunday dinner. What foresight!