Pickle brine is an incredibly useful scrap. Once you start using it—in potato salad!—you might find yourself running out of brine before the jar of pickles.
Salads
Carole Peck’s Apple and Endive Salad with Pumpkin Seed Vinaigrette
This gorgeous salad is one of the reasons Carole Peck’s Good News Restaurant & Bar just celebrated its 25th year as one of the best places to eat in Connecticut.
Faith’s OMG Fresh Brussels Sprouts Salad with Truffle Oil
Faith’s 5-ingredient cheesy, lemony Fresh Brussels Sprouts Salad with Truffle Oil is irresistible, and the perfect no-cook side for Thanksgiving.
Grilled New Potato Salad
This salad is so potato- ey, onion- ey, and herb- ey that you’ll make it all the time during new potato season, then you’ll make it after new potato season, too; I promise.
Couscous Salad
A recipe from our friend Francoise, which Peter Buckley adapted for the book, Eat It Raw.
Argentine Humita
Humita, essentially a savory corn pudding, is the perfect side to steak, sausages, or anything coming off an Argentine grill.