{"id":17107,"date":"2013-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopeful-davinci.104-238-165-7.plesk.page\/index\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T07:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T07:57:28","slug":"not-too-virtuous-winter-salad-with-caramelized-apple-vinaigrette-food52-cookbook-volume-2-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/2013\/01\/not-too-virtuous-winter-salad-with-caramelized-apple-vinaigrette-food52-cookbook-volume-2-giveaway.html","title":{"rendered":"Not-Too-Virtuous Salad with Caramelized Apple Vinaigrette"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I dreamt I had a baby last night. Her name was Lily, and she was a disturbing shade of suffocated purple. I awoke from the dream still wishing I\u2019d held Lily more and wishing she\u2019d been named something else, something like Imogen. But I crawled out of the warm bed & blearily stumbled into the shower. Our heating doesn\u2019t work properly (read: at all) upstairs so I huddle under the warm water, rotating constantly trying to get 360\u00b0 warm. I flossed. It hurt. I just started doing it religiously. It\u2019s the New Year and, yes, I started flossing. And drinking more water. And waking and sleeping at the same time each night and day, sort of. After the hot-cold shower and the flossing, I\u2019ve also begun drawing an Elder Futhark rune out of a velvet pouch each morning. I place it in a gold dipped ceramic bowl, read about the rune, and then meditate for ten minutes. It sounds more eccentric than it is, the runes. It\u2019s like daily devotional Russian roulette. I\u2019ve done this every morning for six days now. Pried myself from dreams at the same hour, taken a hot-cold shower, brush, floss, rinse, rune, meditate. For me, this is a monumental accomplishment.<\/div>\n
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Resolutions, you might call them. I make them all the time, but I don\u2019t see them as such. They\u2019re blueprints, drafts for the edifice that is my life. I imagine my perfect life in 3D, hold it in my hands, fondle it, go inside it, explore its order and it\u2019s secret passage ways (that\u2019s where sexy things and magic things live\u2026). Then I build it, brick by brick. My life lived is my life\u2019s work.<\/div>\n
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So the thing is, I don\u2019t do New Year\u2019s resolutions per se. This new found routine and discipline is a coincidence. I started December 28th<\/sup>motivated by a desire to best my raging lack of self-discipline. I\u2019ve an entirely unimpressive knack for doing precisely what I want and nothing else at all ever. That means I take pictures, cook, write, and watch Dr. Who while the rest of life crumbles and wheezes, sorely neglected, around me. I\u2019ve no interest in \u201cNew Year\u2019s resolutions\u201d similarly to how I have no interest in Valentine\u2019s Day. I\u2019m into living well and loving well most days of the year & I don\u2019t think we need permission or a reason to do either. You can restart your day at midnight & your year in June. I must say, these new habits have been glorious. I love routine, love it. There\u2019s an odd amount of freedom in it.<\/div>\n
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So have I resolved to floss, drink 8 glasses of water a day, never let the laundry or dishes or housekeeping get ahead of me, meditate daily, practice yoga regularly, volunteer weekly, plan meals ahead, keep a regular bed and waking time, and (deep breath) post at least once a week? Well, yes, sort of. I\u2019m working towards that, more accurately. But it just happens to be the New Year, I swear.<\/div>\n
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So here\u2019s a diplomatic salad for the New Year whether you\u2019re a zealot on a diet with aerobics videos poised to go (do people still do aerobics?) or whether you, like me, have a bit of a distaste for the January headlines that squawk things like \u201ctrim down!\u201d, \u201cshed pounds!\u201d (sounds like fur\u2026gross), or \u201csomething, something waist line!!\u201d. This self-proclaimed \u201cnot too virtuous\u201d salad is from the new Food52 cookbook that they graciously sent me. I\u2019ve been perusing and garnering inspiration from it for the past month, and this salad in particular has so many of my favorite flavors happening in it. I am a huge fan of fennel & celeriac (the latter of which I think is sorely neglected in the states). I had some celery tops languishing in my fridge so I tossed the leaves in (I think celery leaves make excellent<\/b>salad material) for more celery action, along with a bit of chopped fennel frond, mint, and parsley. I like it herbaceous.<\/div>\n
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Being a dyed in the wool home cook, I\u2019ve always had a natural affinity for the recipes of my fellows, and this is a cookbook comprised solely of recipes from people such as you and myself. And they\u2019re good. And this salad, most especially the caramel apple & thyme vinaigrette, is something to have in your fridge at all times to make all those New Year\u2019s resolution salads you\u2019ll be eating satisfy that \u201cbaby, it\u2019s cold outside\u201d need for comfort. Comfort in the form of bacon and caramel.<\/div>\n
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And because I love it (because I would never do a giveaway of something I don\u2019t use myself) I\u2019m giving not one but two copies away. The cookbook includes what the community said about the recipe when they tried it as well as tips and techniques from the community, which is super useful, the benefits of a crowd sourced cookbook. So leave a comment with a life goal below (we won\u2019t call them resolutions!) whatever they may be\u2026from smell the roses more to travel to Thailand or say thank your more often (that\u2019s one of mine), and in a week I\u2019ll pick two winners at random for a copy of the new Food52 cookbook! Good luck\u2026<\/span> and I\u2019m curious about what other people strive for! So very curious.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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