Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut (in Your Salad)

Cashews make a great topping for a green salad with grilled chicken.  The salad dressing is an Asian inspired vinaigrette with fresh lemon, garlic and ginger.

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Carrots and Radishes, Oh My!

Here's an easy-to-make home made salad dressing that's just  perfect to dress a summer salad. One good thing about these cooler August days: my...

Will Chopped Salads Bowls be in Short Supply?

Chopped salads can be made right in a chop bowl with a salad chopper or prepped on a cutting board. Regardless, you'll get a delicious mingling of...

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What is the best wood for a chopped salad bowl?

Traditional hardwoods are the best choice for chopped salad bowls. You won't see stained wooden bowls ever on our web site, in our store or on our retailers' shelves.  We prefer an all natural, food-safe finish, especially when you will be chopping greens...

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What To Do for a Wedding Gift

Your recurring dilemma: what to give as a wedding or anniversary present? Our solution: a wooden bowl. Why give a bowl? The answer lies in the nature of love...

A Chopped Salad Bowl Holds a Symphony of Salad Greens

Think of your chopped salad as if you were composing a piece of music, and think about your artful arrangement of chopped...

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Making Bread and Memories

Nothing recalls that gentle era better than wooden kitchenware: hand-carved spoons, potato mashers, and a vital tool called the dough bowl. In colonial America, dough bowls provided a snug, warm place in...

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A Salad Worthy of a Caesar

Named for a chef, not a real Roman Caesar, the Caesar salad is definitely one of the best classic salads.  It's worth knowing how to make a great one in your own wood...

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Colebrook Salad Dressing

French salad dressing Home made recipe you won't find anywhere but near the Canadian border, not even Vermont. Much better than store bough French especially when served on your home grown salad greens. Ingredients 1/2 cup olive oil 1/4...

Beginners Guide to Homemade Salad Dressing

Consider this an intervention. Those of you still buying bottles of Paul Newman's or Annie's or worst yet, Wish Bone salad dressings at the grocery store - it's...