Went to a Thai spot around the corner in Morton Grove and ordered the specialty salad, pictured poorly above. Goddamn you shitty iPhone aperture.
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Fennel and grapefruit salad from Le Cigale. Loved the tartness!
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Cold soba noodles from BVSC fav spot Icebox on Sobe (shit that a lot of mindless acronyms). You really can’t go wrong with anything here, which is why we always somehow end up tucked in this corner.
Anyway, healthy option this time around which says a lot when you’re literally surrounded by 24 types of cake behind glass cases: beets, carrots, bean sprouts, and soba noodles.
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It had been a few years since I’ve stabbed myself a few romaine lettuce hearts drenched in creamy Caesar dressing, so when I saw this Italian staple in Ni.Do’s menu I couldn’t say no. Gives great pic too.
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Had forgotten about my solitary golden beet, to my happy surprise. Result: golden beet salad. It’s so pretty to look at, no?
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Whipping up a bowl of cold tortellini pasta, nom nom nom.
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I discovered a practical way to get rid of all my veggies before they expire that isn’t soup. After hitting the boredom wall of soup after soup after soup to salvage any veggies ready to depart from this world, I turned to trusty tortellini from Laurenzo’s Market to make me some delicious cold pasta. I made my own dressing with piled on red onion, artichoke hearts, heirloom grape tomatoes, kalamata olives, cucumber, sun dried tomatoes, and of course loads of feta cheese.
This is a great, fast and easy way to secure lunch or dinner for the rushed weekday.
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If you ever find yourself in San Francisco and seriously want to step out of a cuisine rut, you must go to Burma Superstar and order their tea leaf salad. Let me just put this out there, I HATE tea; can’t stomach it or smell it near me (yack!). But the combo of peanuts, treated Burmese tea leaves, sesame, fried garlic bits, and dried shrimp take this seemingly simple salad into unexpected recesses of your palate.
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Panzanella Salad from Tudor House.
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God this looks like a 1970s basement porn shoot, a.k.a an American Apparel ad for salad. Sorry couldn’t help it.
Goat cheese, raspberry and spinach salad from Klassz in Budapest.
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Gastrodamus and I found ourselves nearing 4:15pm without having a bite of anything in our stomachs an entire day but wanting to try somewhere new. This gave us the perfect opportunity to try the neighborhood mozzarella bar Ni.Do for lunch.
Calamari salad from Ni.Do Caffe. Farro, eggplant, sun dried tomato, arugula drizzled with balsamic dressing. Simply said, quite freaking delicious.
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Homemade pan seared chicken with beet, feta, cucumber, carrot, arugula, and spinach salad.
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Finally have some time to actually cook at home, something I terribly missed. Decide to keep it simple today with a salad, this is the beets component. Roasted red beet with olive oil, tarragon, red pepper flakes, and thyme.
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Octopus salad from DB Bistro
Octopus, marcona almond puree, orange slices, arugula and black olives. The almond puree was quite a pleasant and welcome surprise.
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My co-worker scarfed down the grilled octopus salad at Salumeria.
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