Potato Chip Tower with Prosciutto and Endive

Potato Chip Tower with Prosciutto and Endive
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Today, I have less of a recipe and more of a snack concept. I’ve been seeing dressed potato chips all over the Internet lately. They’ve been called potato chip towers, charcuterie chips, and potato chip nachos. But I prefer the name potato chip sundae. No one else is calling it this, and it isn’t particularly descriptive, but for some reason, that is where my mind landed, and now I can’t resist calling it that. You’ll notice I didn’t choose that term for the title. Sometimes it’s better to keep one’s strangeness to oneself. I guess I wasn’t successful at doing that since I just told you, but at least the SEO gods are happy. But whatever you call it, today’s Potato Chip Tower with Prosciutto and Endive is simple to put together and devastatingly snackable. So let’s make it!

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Blistered Shishito Peppers with Calabrese Aioli

Blistered Shishito Peppers with Calabrese Aioli
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Patio season has finally arrived in Toronto, and I couldn’t be more thrilled. It’s been a long, cold, and wet spring in this province, and we’ve been camped out in a rain cloud for much longer than usual. I was starting to have my doubts, but the switch has finally flipped, and summer has arrived. We never ease into summer; it just sort of shows up one day. Throughout those chilly spring months, I couldn’t stop fantasizing about summer cocktails and patio-friendly snacks like these Blistered Shishito Peppers with Calabrese Aioli. With its minimal prep, local produce, and bold flavours, this dish has everything I look for in a summer cookout starter. Unfussy but elegant in its way, just the aesthetic I’m going for this summer. So let’s make it!

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Dill Caesar Wedge Salad with Potato Chip Croutons

Dill Caesar Wedge Salad with Potato Chip Croutons
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Once upon a time, the wedge salad was considered a relic—a cringeworthy nod to the much-maligned mid-century American dining scene. But as with most things old and outdated, the wedge salad found new life during the vintage-loving aughts. It was resurrected alongside a slew of hip steak houses, dusted off for Mad-Men-themed parties, and now it has finally settled down as a menu mainstay. And for good reason, a wedge of iceberg is truly a blank slate. Chefs and cooks can’t seem to resist the endless possibility of this admittedly angular base. And I am no exception. Today’s Dill Caesar Wedge Salad is my own little riff. It’s part caesar, part wedge, and part small child let loose on a salad bar. And you know what? That is precisely the kind of energy I want to see in the world. So let’s make this potato chip spackled beast!

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Tuna Club Tostadas

Tuna Club Tostadas with Creamy Avocado Mayo
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Low maintenance has been my M.O. lately. It’s late summer and the vibes are lazy, so why should my recipes be any different? I realize my previous post gently reimagined the iconic tomato sandwich. And today’s could be easily classified as the same. These Tuna Club Tostadas borrow most of their cast from the much-beloved club sandwich, which is really a tomato sandwich on steroids. So yes, these tostadas are yet another riff on the sandwich of the season. But my repetitiveness doesn’t make these beauties any less delicious, so let’s make them.

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