101 Days of Summer
August 25th, 2009
Mark Bittman’s 101 Simple Salads became an overnight sensation among foodies with good reason. If you love salad, but find yourself sick of the same old lettuce routine, you’ll be in awe of his creative combinations. I didn’t get too far down the list (#2) before I finalized yesterday’s lunch plans. After buying all the ingredients at the farmers’ market, I made his peach and tomato salad with slivers of red onion, chile flakes and cilantro tossed in a lemon juice and olive oil vinaigrette (I added avocado for a bit of creamy texture). The final result was a light and refreshing salad bursting with flavor and tremendous depth.
Those are pretty much ALL of my favorite things.
(sans cilantro, unfortunately) Great addition with the avocado!
Thanks for the link! It will be a nice resource to try to grasp onto this last bit of summer. And I LOVE how short and simple the descriptions are! I think even I can recreate them, and I’m pretty disastrous in a kitchen.
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Looks so yummy! Think Ill make this tonight
Your whole life just comes off as so much more fashionable and for lack of a better term – white (clean? stable?) – than mine…maybe it is the east coast versus west coast difference? I love reading your posts because they bring this calm to me during the day…
Looks delicious – love Bittman and his Bitten blog!
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All the pictures of the process look so yummy and appealing, but the picture of the final salad looks amaaaaazing. I want it now!
That salad looks amazing! Your photos are really good too, and your cutting – so perfect!!
Awesome job! xx
Sounds like a fantastic summer salad. I love the little fruit wedges all lined up in the third photo.
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We loved this salad too!
a perfect summer salad! i did chicken with grilled peaches last week for dinner.
i still love those salad tongs! am on the hunt for something similar.
Oh yum! Great idea on the avocado too.
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Those heirloom tomatoes are lookin’ kinda hot…! I can’t wait to revisit his article. Thanks for always inspiring!!!
definitely going to try this! the boy and i tried your other grapefruit and avocado salad recipe and loved it.
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It’s a beautiful salad and must be delicious!
i’ll try here in Brazil!
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that looks so good. I add avocado to all my salads, love it!
that looks delicious! i’ll have to try that one. i made the one with grilled cheese on top and still have so many more to try that sound amazing!
mmm this food looks delicious!
i’m definitely getting that book!
That looks so yummy! I would never have thought of putting peach in a salad though!.x
I have been inspired.
Thanks!
I am a huge fan of Mark Bittman and that looks delicious! We recently had dinner at Jar, and one of the appetizers was a salad with thin slices of white peach. SO DELICIOUS!
Anyway, after the Gap party on Saturday, Whoorl pointed me to your site… it is beautiful (and so are you!). Hope you are loving your boyfriend jeans.
That looks sooo good!
Oh my goodness! That looks absolutely delish. Such an interesting combination of flavors.
Beautiful photos !! The photos making me drool , yum yummy !
Going to get the book
I just made this tonight for a dinner party and it was a big hit. Thanks for the inspiration Emily!
Made this over the weekend for a bbq after reading your post. It was delicious! Thanks, Emily!
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That looks amazingly delicious.
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This just looks a-m-a-z-i-n-g…
Help! I can’t find the list with all of Mark Bittman’s salads.. thx in advance !!
Mmmmm…. Sounds Delicious !! I loooooove your blog.
ummm.. this look delightful. Living next to Central Park I end up doing a lot of Sat + Sunday picnics… this would be perfecttttttttt to bring and eat with chips. THANKS!
That’s definitely not a combo I would ever have thought up on my own…but now that you mention it, it seems like it could be sorta amazing!
YUM! How did I not know about 101 Salads. Thanks for spreading the word. Your photos are so fabulous.
thank you for your point.
look yummy! and healthty too