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This salad of sharp and/or bitter greens is cut with a sweet-ish dressing made with port wine as part of the base, along with roasted almond oil to link to the nuts and the microgreens. If you can’t find the broccoli greens, use some others, but the broccoli micros from New Natives have a wonderful sweet and nutty flavor cut with a bit of sharpness that is perfect here. This salad would be good with rich foods or simple dishes such as a roast chicken cooked with little other than salt and pepper, some oil or butter rubbed on and maybe thyme. It will also play well with roast winter squash dishes.

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The lettuces used here are what was used for this recipe originally, but other choices will work as well.

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The dressing would be good with assertive greens such as radicchio, escarole, frisée, or dandelions. Try it tossed with pasta with greens such as kales or rapini.

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Here is my take on the bistro classic of frisee salad scattered with lardons (thick batons of crispy chewy bacon) and topped with a poached egg. There are not a lot of components to this dish, so use the freshest eggs and good quality thick cut or slab bacon. Note that this recipe serves two rather than the usual 4 due to the fact that unless there are two heads of frisee per box, or they are really large heads, that is how much the average frisee will serve.

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A classic dressing for Frisee au Lardons (Curly Endive with Bacon and Poached Egg), a bistro classic. Here the dressing is lightened up a bit using more oil than bacon fat. This dressing is also good on spinach, especially if warmed up a little bit.

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