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Recipe from Martha Stewart: Alexis’s Chopped Salad
Martha Stewart’s 100th book, “Martha: The Cookbook” (published November 12 by Clarkson Potter), features some of the lifestyle entrepreneur’s favorite recipes. She shares with “Sunday Morning” viewers one of her daughter’s specialties. Stewart writes:
“One of my favorite salads to look at, as well as to eat, is my daughter Alexis’s chopped salad. Each time she makes it, she tries to include at least ten different vegetables, and thus it is easier for summer preparation than winter, when farm stands and gardens are full of endless ingredients.
“Consider the list here a starting point. I change my version as my garden changes – it might also include three colors of string beans, several kinds of corn, and red, yellow, white, and striped beets.
“I sometimes serve this with a fancy grilled cheese sandwich for a luncheon or as a first course for a more elaborate dinner.”
Alexis’s Chopped Salad
Serves: 12
Ingredients:
Kosher salt
2 ears of corn, shucked
Pinch of sugar
½ pound green beans, trimmed
½ pound yellow wax beans, trimmed
4 plum tomatoes, seeded and cut into ¼-inch pieces
1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
1 small yellow bell pepper, seeded, deveined, and cut into ¼-inch pieces
1 small red bell pepper, seeded, deveined, and cut into ¼-inch pieces
1 small purple bell pepper, seeded, deveined, and cut into ¼-inch pieces
1 English cucumber, peeled, seeded, and cut into ¼-inch pieces
1 small red onion, peeled, cut into ¼-inch pieces, and soaked in ice water
1 medium jalapeño chile, seeded, deveined, and finely chopped
¾ cup whole cilantro leaves
2 Tablespoons unseasoned rice vinegar
2 Tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Radicchio leaves, such as Variegato di Lusia, for serving
Instructions:
1. Prepare an ice bath. Bring a medium saucepan of salted water to a boil. Add the corn and sugar, and blanch the corn until tender, about 6 minutes. Remove the corn from water and plunge immediately into the ice bath. When the corn is thoroughly cooled, remove it from the ice bath. Using a sharp knife, remove the kernels from cobs. Transfer the kernels to a large bowl.
2. Add the green and yellow beans to the boiling water. Blanch them until tender, about 1 minute. With a slotted spoon, remove the beans from the water and plunge immediately into the ice bath. When the beans are thoroughly cooled, transfer them to a colander to drain. Cut the beans into ¼-inch pieces and add to the bowl with corn.
3. Add the tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumber, onion, jalapeño, and cilantro leaves. Stir to combine. Add the vinegar, oil, black pepper, and 1 teaspoon salt. Toss to combine. Taste and adjust for seasoning. Keep the salad chilled until ready to serve over radicchio leaves.
From “Martha: The Cookbook” by Martha Stewart. Copyright © 2024 Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia LP. Photographs copyright © 2024 by Dana Gallagher. Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Reprinted with permission.
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Aga Khan emerald, world’s most expensive green stone, fetches record $9 million at auction
A rare square 37-carat emerald owned by the Aga Khan fetched nearly $9 million at auction in Geneva on Tuesday, making it the world’s most expensive green stone.
Sold by Christie’s, the Cartier diamond and emerald brooch, which can also be worn as a pendant, dethrones a piece of jewelry made by the fashion house Bulgari, which Richard Burton gave as a wedding gift to fellow actor Elizabeth Taylor, as the most precious emerald.
In 1960, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan commissioned Cartier to set the emerald in a brooch with 20 marquise-cut diamonds for British socialite Nina Dyer, to whom he was briefly married.
Dyer then auctioned off the emerald to raise money for animals in 1969.
By chance that was Christie’s very first such sale in Switzerland on the shores of Lake Geneva, with the emerald finding its way back to the 110th edition this year.
It was bought by jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels before passing a few years later into the hands of Harry Winston, nicknamed the “King of Diamonds.”
“Emeralds are hot right now, and this one ticks all the boxes,” said Christie’s EMEA Head of Jewellery Max Fawcett. “…We might see an emerald of this quality come up for sale once every five or six years.”
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Kraft Heinz removes Lunchables from school meals program
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Consumer Reports applauded the move, months after the advocacy group sounded alarms about the product popular with kids, saying its tests found troubling levels of lead and sodium in them.
“Lunchables and other lunch kits with concerning levels of sodium and harmful chemicals have no place on the school lunch menu,” Brian Ronholm, director of food policy at Consumer Reports, stated on Tuesday. “We’re pleased that Heinz Kraft has pulled Lunchables from the school lunch program after lower than expected demand from school districts across the country.”
In an Oct. 30 earnings call, Kraft Heinz CEO Carlos Abrams-Rivera called Lunchables a “very important” part of the company’s business, while noting what he described as “misleading” negative publicity regarding the product.
Kraft Heinz changed two of its Lunchables — Turkey & Cheddar Cracker Stackers and Extra Cheesy Pizza Lunchables — to qualify for the USDA-run program. Sales of those two products were less than 1% of overall Lunchables sales, so the business impact is negligible, according to the company.
In a statement emailed to CBS MoneyWatch, Kraft Heinz said demand for Lunchables from school districts across the country did not meet its targets. “Lunchables products are not available in schools this year, and we hope to revisit at a future date,” the company said.