Panzanella (Italian tomato & bread salad)

This traditional Italian salad calls for the juiciest ripest tomatoes. So if you don't have them, don't make Panzanella, make something else!

Classic Panzanella Salad (Tuscan-Style Tomato and Bread Salad)

Dried bread and salted tomatoes make the best version of panzanella, a summer salad from the Tuscany region of Italy. And let's get one thing straight: panzanella is not a tomato salad with bread; it's a bread salad flavored with vegetables.

Panzanella With Artichokes, Black Olives, and Capers

As we move into the heart of summer and plump, juicy tomatoes begin to ripen on the vine, I start to crave panzanella. The simple, rustic salad from central Italy is made with stale bread and ripe tomatoes, epitomizing the classic Italian tradition of using leftover ingredients to create an amazing dish.

The Un-Composed (i.e., Best) Niçoise Salad

Traditionally, Niçoise salads are "composed," meaning each ingredient is artfully arranged in separate little piles on the plate. Here's the truth: That's a terrible (and lazy!) way to make a salad. This one is loaded with all the best ingredients, cooked with care, and assembled like you actually give a damn. Which you do. Your guests will thank you.

Grilled Panzanella Salad

Charred late-summer vegetables and juicy, ripe tomatoes are tossed with a vinaigrette and hunks of grilled day-old bread, which soaks up all the fabulous juices.

Grilled Chicken Niçoise Salad

Entrée-sized, grilled chicken Niçoise is a bounty of crisp, colorful vegetables, all swathed in lively tarragon vinaigrette.

Nicoise Salad (French Salad with Tuna)

Nicoise Salad - Tuna salad, the French way! This is a classic made with potatoes, egg, canned tuna, tomato, cos/romaine, beans and olives.

Seared Rare Niçoise Tuna Lettuce Cups

This fun deconstructed Niçoise salad features herb-seared rare tuna tossed with potatoes, haricots verts, tomatoes, olives, anchovies, capers, and lemon-thyme citronette, all spooned into handy lettuce cups.

Grilled Chicken Panzanella

Grilled chicken turns this summertime salad into a main course. Toasting the bread on the grill lets it sop up all of the juice from those farm fresh tomatoes without getting too mushy.

Warm Salmon Salad Nicoise

This salmon salad nicoise varies from the traditional nicoise using seared fresh salmon,asparagus and a tangy herbed lemon caper vinaigrette making a perfect dinner salad