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Edamame, olive salad

This edamame, olive salad will make you feel like you’re lunching at a seaside restaurant on some far flung Greek island. I swear it! It’s such an unusual combination that your taste buds will think you’re on vacation. I had a variation of this salad last week at an unlikely waterfront spot in North Carolina. The restaurant served mostly seaside style bar food, except for this incredible side dish. I’m so glad I ordered it. It was easily my favorite thing I had that meal — aside from that delicious Southern sweet tea. That’s hard to beat. This edamame, olive combo makes for a simple salad but not one where you want to cut back on quality. A bag of shelled edamame should only run you a few dollars, so splurge on the fancy olives — you know, the ones from the olive bar. Or at least get a good brand of jarred kalamatas.…

10 delicious summer salads to try as the weather warms up

When it’s hot out, you don’t want a heavy meal weighing you down. So that makes these summer salads the perfect option. Here are 10 delicious choices: • • • Arugula, mint and apricot salad Get the recipe here via Everybody Craves • • • Triple Berry Kale Walnut Salad Get the recipe here via Everybody Craves • • • Pineapple Cucumber Salad Get the recipe here via Everybody Craves • • • Tabouli Quinoa Salad Get the recipe here via Everybody Craves • • • Watermelon and Feta Salad with Mint and Jalapeno Get the recipe here via Everybody Craves • • • Avocado, black bean and corn salad Get the recipe here via Vegan Huggs • • • Strawberry Chicken Salad Get the recipe here via The Recipe Critic • • • Peach Bacon Salad With Honey Lemon Vinaigrette Get the recipe here via RockRecipes.com • • •…

Study shows this much salad can keep your brain young

You can thank mom and dad for forcing you to finish your greens before getting up from the dinner table. While they knew veggies and salads were good for you, they might not have known exactly how much so. Salads are packed with essential nutrients — protein, iron, and fiber, just to name a few. And now, researchers have found that eating one to two servings of leafy green salads per day can improve your memory and overall cognitive ability. The study, published in the journal Neurology, was lead by Martha Clare Morris, ScD, a nutritional epidemiologist at Rush University Medical Center. Over the span of 4.7 years, Morris and her colleagues looked at 960 participants, ages 58 – 99. Volunteers were asked to fill out questionnaires on the frequency they ate foods like spinach, salad, kale, collards and other greens. They were also asked to complete yearly thinking and memory skills tests to gauge…

Honeygrow opens first restaurant in Pittsburgh

The Pittsburgh restaurant scene is growing up. Once known in the culinary world mostly for it’s gut-busting, french fry-topped sandwiches — and perhaps its love affair with ketchup — the Steel City is finally getting more healthy, fast-casual restaurants. Hot on the heels of new eateries Pittsburgh Poke, Plate & Bowl and Earth Inspired Salads, Philly-based Honeygrow is the latest restaurant to bring simple yet sophisticated meal-in-a-bowl style eating to The ‘Burgh. Honeygrow Pittsburgh offers a menu full of seasonally-sourced produce that customers can use to create customized stir-fry bowls or salads. A menu hangs on the wall listing exactly which local farms particular produce came from. (On this day, I was pleased to know the broccoli in my stir-fry came from a town nearby to where I grew up.)  “People are control freaks, and I’m certainly one of them,” said Honeygrow CEO Justin Rosenberg, “And especially today.  There are…