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It’s early evening in the garden. The sun is low on the horizon and the warmth of the day is beginning to fade. For some reason, this is the time of day when dozens of dragonflies make an appearance in the sky about my yard. I see them here every year in the summer. They dip and zoom through the air as they search for food, or whatever it is they are swarming over. This is about the time I turn on my new garden lights.

There are a couple of new additions to the garden this year, plantings of zucchini, cucumber, nasturtium and cheery overhead lights. I’ve devised a plan to hang strands of lights, zigzagging back and forth across the garden on the same stakes I put up for the plants. Since we are often our relaxing in the garden in the dusky evening, I think the lights are going to be a great addition to our enjoyment of the space.

My garden seems to be doing a very good job at reflecting life this year. Parts of it are planned and organized with neat straight rows and even spacing. I’ve been working towards the best way to create green “walls” around the garden with pole beans, towering tomatoes and colorful dahlias. It’s taken a few years, but I think I’m getting this figured out! Other plants are randomly taking over the pathways, like the lettuce stalk that went to seed last summer, tossing hundreds of seeds out amongst the gravel. Turns out that I am getting some really lovely heads of lettuce from this random seed placement. Same story with the arugula that has been growing so rapidly that I’ve resorted to sharing bags of it with friends to keep up with its growth.

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The lettuce and arugula have been a wonderful start to the season. Along with those volunteer crops, I have been tending to an early salad garden with generous plantings of kale, mizuna, pretty speckled lettuces and my favorite French breakfast radishes. My salad bowl is a pretty delicious place this time of year.

I am also giving the English peas another shot this year. I swore I wasn’t going to waste precious garden space on them again after last year’s dismal showing. The plants came up only to fall to some terrible pea pestilence before any pods reached maturity. But it’s funny what a winter’s worth of grey will do to my resolve. So with a new variety of seeds and a little crop rotation, my fingers are crossed for a better outcome this year.

Where ever you are this season, I hope a little spot of green – farmer’s market, community garden, herb pot in the window or acres of vegetables – crosses your path this summer.

Have you ever considered what type of food you would eat if you could only eat one for the rest of your life? This is a really tough call for me. There are so many different things that I love to eat, I really can’t imagine going without all the lovely fruit options, dark chocolate and who knows what else, that I don’t think that I could live without. But if for some reason we were in a MMA fight and you had me pinned to the ground with my arm stuck in some sort of an arm bar and you demand that I choose a cuisine, I think that I would say Vietnamese.

“Vietnamese?” you might ask, why would you choose soup when you could eat Italian or French for the rest of your life. The French with their bread and pastries really are up there on my list but, there is just something so flavourful and fresh about Vietnamese food. Maybe it has to do with the touch of French influence in Vietnamese cuisine! One of my favourite things about Vietnamese food is the contrast and balance that is features. Sweet, salty, sour, spicy and then the additional ultra fresh and crisp vegetables, yum. One of my favourite memories of Vietnamese food is one that Ginger wrote about last May. We had had a bit of a mentally tough morning and by early afternoon were starving. We decided to try out the little family run Vietnamese kitchen down the street. We ordered takeout and went home with a couple of the most delicious salads and salad rolls that I have ever had. IN. MY. WHOLE. LIFE.

Every so often I remember those salads and think that I need to eat them again. When the pomelos starting showing up in droves at my local grocery this month, I decided it was time to try and make a little pomelo salad of my own. It has been basically a year since Ginger and I ate the original salad, so my version really is just an approximation. But I was delighted with the results at any rate. The salad comes together rather quickly, with the trickiest part being  the peeling of the pomelo. You can also turn this salad into a light main by serving the salad a-top a bed of rice or glass noodles.

Pomelo Salad with Shrimp 
adapted from Andrea Nguyen

1/2 pound large shrimp, cooked
1 medium pomelo
1 carrot, peeled and julienned
1/2 a medium English cucumber, julienned
¼ cup mint leaves, chopped
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2 tablespoons chopped cilantro, leafy tops only
1 small shallot, thinly sliced
1/4 cup chopped unsalted, roasted peanuts

Dressing
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 lime juiced
1 tablespoon water
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 generous teaspoon chile garlic sauce

Start by preparing the herbs and vegetables. Julienne the carrots and cucumber, chop the mint, celery leaves and cilantro and finely slice the shallot. Set aside. Cut the top off of a medium-sized pomelo, remove its peel and as much of the white pith as possible. Rip the fruit in half and remove all the skin from each individual segment of the pomelo. Break the segments into bite sized pieces and set aside in a medium-sized serving bowl.

For the dressing mix together fish sauce, lime juice, water, sugar and chile garlic sauce. Stir well to ensure the sugar is fully resolved.

Right before serving mix together the shrimp, pomelo, vegetables and herbs. Toss well to combine, pour over the dressing and mix again to fully dress the salad. Serve immediately.

What makes a perfect potato salad? In my mind the perfect potato salad is the one that I grew up with, the one my mom makes. It has fresh peas, dill, pickles, hardboiled eggs, mustard, a little pickle juice, mayo and a bunch of other things that are currently not on my “can eat” list. Under normal circumstances, I’m sure that I could live without potato salad for a couple of weeks, I certainly have gone without a lot of other things over the last 8 days. However, when everyone else is out at bbq’s having yummy potato salads, I ended up feeling like I need to be part of the potato salad eating crew. So I have had to suck it up and try something new.

The search for the right mayo-less potato salad was not without peril. There are millions of recipes out there, but none of them really seemed to speak to me. Either they were too complex, calling for grilling the potatoes and veggies, or they seemed to call for ingredients that I didn’t have kicking around the house. For me that is one of the beauties of my usual recipe, I can virtually always pull it together. I decided it was time to take note of what I really like about the original salad and find one with similar elements. I was looking for was something that was simple in both its production and in its ingredient list. I wanted a salad that highlighted the flavours of fresh herbs and the bright acidity that pickle juice brings to my moms salad. This fresh herb and lemon was just what I wanted. The fresh herbs and lemon provide bold flavours and the thinly sliced potatoes steam up in a snap. Truth be told, may0-less potato salads really aren’t that bad, they might even be all around delicious.

Fresh Herb & Lemon Potato Salad
Adapted from Fine Cooking 

1-3/4 lb. baby red potatoes, sliced 1/4 inch thick
1 large clove garlic, finely chopped
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1 cup lightly packed fresh flat-leaf parsley
1/2 cup lightly packed fresh basil
1/2 cup thinly sliced chives
6 Tbs extra-virgin olive oil
1 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper

Fill a large pot, that can be fitted with a steamer, with a couple of inches of water. Bring the water to a boil and arrange the potatoes in layers in the steamer. Cover the pot and steam, gently stir the potatoes every 5 minutes until the potatoes are cooked, about 10 – 15 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes and transfer into a large serving bowl.

In the meantime while the potatoes are steaming, zest and then juice the lemon. Add the zest to a food processor and set the lemon juice aside to use later.

Also add the garlic and herbs to the processor and pulse a few times until the herbs are coarsely chopped. Add the olive oil, salt and pepper, pulse until the mixture is nicely combined, avoid over processing the herbs as this will cause them to discolour. Finally add the lemon juice and pulse once to mix.

Pour the herb mixture over the potatoes and lightly toss to combine. Serve while warm.

I grew up in a home that had a garden the size of a football field. No Joke. We lived next door to my grandma and grandpa and my aunt and uncle and, our families turned the large plot of land below our houses into a massive garden. There was corn, lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, english peas, tomatoes, radishes, green beans and likely all of the rest of the vegetables that I didn’t mention. As I am sure I have mentioned before, I grew up a vegetarian, so I learnt to love my vegetables very quickly.

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I remember having fresh toasted tomato and cucumber sandwiches with my mom, fresh peas stolen from the vines with Ginger and for one reason or another, my dads philosophy on salads has always stuck with me too. That isn’t to say that I always follow his salad rules but I do certainly remember them. Back in the day, my dad seemed to have three main salad rules that he lived by, one: use all the raw vegetables that you have on hand, two: always add an onion, three: top generously with nuts to add a little crunch. There was also a fourth. But it was less of a salad rule and more of a general life guideline: top with nutritional yeast. Yes, that is right, top your salad, your sandwich, you waffles… or whatever else you might be putting in your mouth with a little yeast. It has a lot of vitamin B in it you know!

All jokes aside, my dad may have been channeling the Niçoise salad back in the day, as it does incorporate half of his salad rules and if I would have sprinkled a few nuts or seeds onto it, it would have been just perfect! This fast and fresh dinner is a perfect companion for the longer sunny days that we have been having lately. The inspiration came from Saveur, visit their site for the full recipe. I was delighted with the results, I followed the recipe nearly exactly, except I omitted the anchovies. To be honestly I was a little scared of them and I figured that two types of fish in one salad might be a little much for me. The recipe halves well and the leftovers packed up nicely for a lunch the following day. Happy spring time!!

A few weeks back, I mentioned my radish craze. Each season, I feel like I cannot get enough of the spring-fresh roots, so I plant them all throughout the garden. Staggering the plantings across several weeks, I am always hoping for a steady supply of radishes until the summer heat gets the better of them. As luck would have it, my first planting of radishes grew out of control this year.

Radishes are one of those garden crops that are fast. Twenty two days from planting until harvest, boasts my seed packet. It may not be quite true, but I didn’t bother counting. In the early stages of spring, 22 days sounds like another season. But there they came, those hardy first seedlings pushed out of the ground with determination and haven’t looked back. So when I came back from another weekend away, more than 22 days later, my ombre french breakfast radishes were a little bigger than desirable. I felt some dedication to the radishes, my first harvest of the season. So I carefully pulled them up, left their leafy foliage in the garden and scrubbed away the last bits of dirt that clung to the roots.

If you have ever seen a radish grow past it’s prime, you’ll know what I mean when I say they can get a little spongy inside. But I was still determined to get to use the radishes. So I put together a salad recipe that I hoped would save them. And even though we’ve eaten our way through the giant radishes, we’re still enjoying variations of this salad with the more appropriately sized roots!

I have also been using a recent addition to my pantry in this salad. Browsing the vinegar section of a local grocery store, (I know, who goes searching out vinegar for fun!) I found a store brand bottle of rosé vinegar. Being a bit of a rosé enthusiast, I couldn’t pass it up. Deliciously pink, the vinegar has a bit of a sweet hint. It adds a lovely flavor to the radish quick pickle, but if you can’t find any, I can’t help but think a champagne or similarly mild vinegar would work out just fine.

Radish and spring green salad

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Serves 2

Radishes, about 8, thinly sliced and cut into matchsticks
1 tablespoon rosé vinegar
Sprinkle of salt
2 cups mixed greens, baby arugula, pea shoots, fresh herbs, etc.
1 tablespoon olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
2 chunks of feta cheese

Combine radishes, vinegar and salt in a small bowl and let sit for at least 10 minutes. Toss radishes with salad greens and olive oil and arrange on two plates. Season to taste. Top with the feta cheese and serve.

A new month is upon us. March is here and there isn’t any time to look back. The days of February went flying by in a greyish blur—how did that happen? One thing I really appreciated at the beginning of February was Tina’s post on pausing for a moment. It reminded me to take stock of where I was and where I wanted to be. I have this good-intentioned list of things I want to make a priority in my day. Some days it is harder than others to focus on those things. But taking the time to acknowledge that I may have slipped on some of those items is an act of faith that I can right that wrong. And that if those things are still a priority, I can bring them back into focus. I’m kind of loving that idea of restarting with each month.

Cooking gives me a similar opportunity to restart with any meal. There is always room to keep learning and reworking ideas with my next meal no more than a few hours off. Things don’t have to stay the same. Which brings me to the cauliflower…

I’ve been stuck in a bit of a cauliflower rut. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been a tasty place to be and I’ve been quite happy here! For me, cauliflower has been a surprise vegetable. For many years, I just ignored it, thinking I had no real interest in it. But all of that changed when I figured out that tossing the florets in a little olive oil and salt, plus a hot oven, created something entirely different. Given over to the high heat, the cauliflower sizzles and spits and in short order develops a golden crunch that is like nothing that ever came out of the steamer. Prepared this way, I think I could eat cauliflower for days.

But back to the preparation of the cauliflower, I was reading a recipe for a salad—a hearty dish that seemed like it would be a perfect one-dish meal—when the listed method stopped me in my tracks. Cauliflower, in a skillet—no more need for a roasting pan or high heat oven. I couldn’t wait to try it out. And just like that, I was starting fresh. There is still hope…

This salad’s bright lemony dressing revives my taste buds while I await the arrival of some fresh spring produce. It sits amazingly well, so packing it up for a little al fresco lunch is a great idea. And leftovers are still delicious the next day. I’m big on the idea of a one-bowl lunch, so the addition of a fried or poached eggs really fills out the meal for me.

Warm cauliflower salad

Adapted from Bon Appétit’s recipe here

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¼ cup Pardina lentils, sorted and rinsed
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
1 tablespoon lemon zest
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
½ head cauliflower, divided into florets
7 oz. gigante or butter beans, about ½ can, rinsed and drained
¹⁄3 cup flat Italian parsley leaves, washed
1 tablespoon French tarragon, finely chopped
2 eggs, cooked to your preference

Place lentils in a small pot and cover generously with water. Season with salt. Bring water to a boil, then turn the heat to medium. Let lentils simmer until just tender, about 20 minutes. Drain lentils and rinse in cold water. Set aside.

To make dressing, combine mayonnaise, lemon zest and juice, white wine vinegar, Dijon mustard and 3 tablespoons olive oil. Whisk to combine. Add salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.

Heat remaining tablespoon of olive oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add cauliflower florets and cook until they begin to brown, about 6 minutes. Add a tablespoon or two of water to the pan, cover with a lid and allow to steam for 2 minutes.

Place cauliflower, beans, lentils, parsley and tarragon in a bowl. Toss gently with dressing to coat and add more salt and pepper, if needed. Garnish with a little parsley and top with a warm egg, if desired.

There’s a low-lying fog that has wrapped up our valley for the past few days. Maybe it has been even longer, as I tend to forget those details. It’s almost mysterious in the way that it seeps in overnight and envelops the morning horizon, muting the sun to a vaguely bright spot in the fog. Depending on the day, the thickness of the fog varies—sometimes so thick that I can’t see much more than a car or two in front of me on the street. Other times, it is wispy and soft, bringing a romantic blur to the horizon. At night when I walk the neighborhood streets, sometimes I can see the stars through holes in the fog while street lights glow orange with fluorescent halos. The fog never fails to make me feel cozy, wishing for a blanket and a cup of tea.

On foggy days, I search for brightness elsewhere, like on my plate. While I can’t control the weather and shaking my fist at the sky has brought little result, the meals on my plate are completely under my control, so I adjust as needed. For some reason, the weather has me reaching for the vinegar. The bright acidity brings life to some warm comfort foods and an irresistible sharpness to crunchy salad greens.

The flavors of this salad are not ones that I would readily dreamed on my own. The pairing of quick-pickled red onion with the candy sweetness of Medjool dates is brilliant and I knew immediately I would love it. It’s just one of those combinations I could already imagine before putting vinegar to onion. The recipe jumped off the page as I was browsing through my new cookbook, Jerusalem, this weekend. I know the book has been out for a while, but sometimes I have to pace myself through the myriad of new cookbooks released every fall, adding some of my top picks to my Christmas list, then stacking them up beside the bed for evening reading. (Tell me I’m not alone in this little habit.) There are plenty of dishes I am hoping to make from this book, but this was the one I had to make first while I plotted out my plans for the next dishes.

Spinach salad with almonds and dates

Adapted from Jerusalem, by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi

2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
½ small red onion, thinly sliced lengthwise
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2 tablespoons olive oil
½ cup whole raw almonds, coarsely chopped
2 teaspoons sumac
½ teaspoon Aleppo pepper or chile flakes
5 oz baby spinach
2 tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon juice
Salt, to taste

Combine the vinegar, red onion and dates in a small bowl. Sprinkle with a little salt and stir to combine. Let sit for at least 20 minutes. When ready to use, drain and discard any remaining vinegar.

In a small pan, combine the butter and 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium heat. Add the chopped almonds and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Once almonds are toasted and golden, remove from pan and set on a paper towel to drain. Sprinkle with sumac, pepper flakes and a little salt and allow to cool.

When ready to serve, add the spinach to a large mixing bowl and top with the almonds, red onion and dates. Dress the salad with lemon juice and remaining olive oil. Toss to coat and add a little salt, if needed. Serve immediately.

Standing in front of my jam-packed fridge this weekend, I don’t think many people would have confused me with a minimalist. I love the clean and spare look of a carefully curated kitchen counter or a meticulously arranged fridge, but admire as I may, I can’t maintain that look for more than three hours. The cleaning itch hit me this weekend and I swept the countertops clear—mixer tucked away in the pantry, cutting boards oiled and cookbooks tidied away. I even dove deep into the crisper drawers searching for forgotten bits. This is where I unearthed the beets.

A handful of beets had been languishing for more than a few weeks. But the good news is that beets tend to store pretty well tucked away in a cold dark corner. There were a few desperately pale slips of leaves sprouting from a beet or two. Otherwise, they were no worse for their time waiting. Once found, I knew I’d better not stow them again. So in the midst of my kitchen makeover, I pulled the beets out of their bag and dropped them into the sink for a good scrub.

I don’t know too many people who are ambivalent about beets. This humble root seems to divide people into two camps—those who eagerly search them out or those who would rather keep them off the plate. It might just be my experience, but it seems to me that people usually have an opinion about beets. I fall into the first camp, a beet lover. Since I’m still working on a few members of my household, I usually look for ways to add beets into a dish without making them the main flavor. For that reason, beet salad tends to work out really well for me! I roast the beets whole with their skins on. A pan readily fits alongside most anything else I might be baking. And after an hour or so in the heat, they slip easily from their skins. I tuck them away in a jar, just waiting for my next salad.

But no matter what your thoughts might be on beets, you’ll want to hear about my crispy-delicious salad addition—spicy candied walnuts. This recipe has been with me for years, likely shared in some variation by a friend who would whip up batches to feed the masses. I’ve played with the spices, subbing in smoking pimentón and chili powder or even a fancy curry blend, depending on what flavor I’m going for. Sometimes, if my pantry is looking well-stocked, I’ll add a little maple syrup in place of the corn syrup. No matter what the variation, these candied nuts will be a star in any salad, making it substantial enough to feel like a meal. And don’t just save them for salads, they also make a great cocktail snack or a super-luxe addition to a custom nut mix.

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Candied Walnuts

2 cups walnut halves
Scant 1/4 cup light corn syrup
2 tablespoons white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, or to taste

Preheat oven to 325º. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.

In a mixing bowl, combine all ingredients and mix well to coat. Place walnut mixture on baking sheet and bake in the center of the oven for about 15 minutes, stirring every five minutes until fragrant and the sugar mixture bubbles.

Remove from heat and stir nuts to separate any large clusters. Allow to cool on the pan and store in an airtight container. They’ll keep for several days.

Would You Rather, have you played the game before? It is a game of comparison that we often play on road trips or a warm summers eve surrounding a campfire. Food is not the usual topic for Would Your Rather, but if it were, this is how it would go. Would you rather: a light, leafy, green salad or something stewed, steaming hot and smothered in sauce?

Here in Vancouver we are just coming out the other side of about 5 straight days of fog. No joke. Before that we had about 2 months of rain! Couple that with the fact that we are smack dabb in the middle of winter and the only thing that I want in my mouth is either braised, stewed, roasted, piping hot… you get my drift. Leafy greens aren’t going to cut it right now and let’s face it, they aren’t at their prime right now. I am not a salad hater, I just don’t want one that was cooked up in some hothouse and picked 4 weeks before it was ripe. Needless to say, a salad has to be some kinda wonderful to catch my eye.

So what does this mythical salad look like? It has to have a little staying power, nothing too light and fluffy. Bold, full of flavour, crisp and finally it needs to feel like comfort food. I like to think of this salad as all the fix’ns from Christmas dinner brought together into a salad. A vivid, crunchy, salty and sweet winter panzanella salad hits all the right notes and leaves you feeling like you have just eaten a meal.

This is a very flexible salad. Every time I have made it I have tried different variation and loved them all the same. The original recipe calls for panettone or raisin challah, however, if you can’t find any, switch it out for a nice french bread and 1/4 cup of  dried fruit, such as dried cranberries or raisins. If you don’t happen to have a pomegranate on hand, try adding some additional dried cranberries. I would recommend putting in the extra effort to get your hands on one, as the little seeds bursting with juice are a real treat. My final motification was to the brussels sprouts preperation, I have a preference for roasted brussels sprouts but if you are interested in speeding things up a little you can dunk them into a pot of salted boiling water for about 7 minutes. However, speaking from experience don’t skip soaking the radicchio in ice water. It helps to remove a little of the natural bitterness and leaves the radicchio crisp and plump. On a side note the recipe does half well. I like to prepare a full recipe of the apple vinaigrette and save half for a later dinner.

Winter Panzanella with Pancetta & Brussels Sprouts
Adapted from Bon Appetit (serves 8 as a side or 4–6 as a main)

Ingredients

Apple Vinaigrette:
2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter
1 Granny Smith apple cut into slices
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup finely chopped shallots
8 tablespoons (about) apple juice
Course sea salt
Fresh ground black pepper

Croutons:
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1/4 cup butter
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage
2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme
6 tablespoons finely grated Parmesan cheese
Coarse sea salt
Fresh ground black pepper

Salad:
1 head of radicchio, halved, cored, thinly sliced
12 ounces 1/8-inch-thick slices pancetta, cut into 2×1/8-inch strips
1 pound small brussels sprouts, trimmed, halved lengthwise
Seeds from one fresh pomegranate (optional)
Dried cranberries (optional)
Coarse sea salt
Fresh ground black pepper

For the vinaigrette:
Heat a sauce pan over medium heat. Add butter and allow to melt, then add the apples. Sauté the apple over medium heat, stirring occasionally until they are golden brown and have softened throughout. Scrap the apples and all of the remaining pan juices into a blender and allow them to cool.

Once the apples have cooled add olive oil, apple cider vinegar and shallots and purée until smooth. Slowly add the apple cider a tablespoon at a time until vinaigrette reaches a desired thickness. Season with salt and pepper to taste and set aside.

For the croutons:
Preheat oven to 400F. Warm a small sauce pan, add butter and allow it to melt. Once the butter has melted add the garlic, sage and thyme and allow to cook for about a minute or until the herbs become fragrant but do not brown. Place bread into a large boil, evenly pour the butter mixture over the bread, tossing until all the cubes are evenly covered. Spread the cubes out onto a baking sheet, top with grated parmesan, salt and pepper. Place in the oven and bake for 6 minutes stirring occasionaly until the croutons are golden brown. Set aside and allow to cool.

For the salad
Place the halved brussels sprouts onto a baking sheet, lightly toss with salt and pepper and a little olive oil if you like. Place in the oven which is still heated to 400F and roast for 15-20 minutes turning about half way through the roasting time. Remove from oven and allow to cool. In the meantime saute the pancetta in a large pan until crispy and lightly browned. Remove from pan with a slotted spoon and allow to drain on a paper towel.

In a large salad bowl combine croutons, brussels sprouts and pancetta. Remove radicchio from its ice bath, drain thoroughly and add to salad bowl. Add vinaigrette to salad, mixing well. Top with pomegranate seed and dried cranberries if desired.

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