Stop Making Bad Coleslaw
The weather is warm and picnics, backyard grilling, and cook-outs are everywhere you turn, and you know what that means: somebody is going to bring a bowl of terrible coleslaw,…
Death to Watery Coleslaw
I love coleslaw of all kinds. I love sweet slaw, tangy, vinegary slaw, and hot slaw that’s been dressed with a little pepper jelly. What I don’t love is watery…
Replace Mayo With Brine for a Better Tuna Salad
I have no qualms about mixing mayonnaise with an item and declaring it “salad.” Indeed, I love a good bacon pickle salad any day. However, for the past year or…
Make This Creamy Vinaigrette
Photo: Claire Lower I have my vinaigrette formula locked down. Equal parts acid and fat, with a bit of Dijon mustard, a spoonful of some sort of liquid sweetener, and…
I Dare You to Roast Leftover Coleslaw
Photo: Claire Lower “What are you working on?” my father asked me, genuinely curious. “I’m roasting KFC coleslaw,” I told him. My dad had just finished telling me he does…
10 Ways to Make a ‘Special Salad Dressing,’ According to Lifehacker Readers
I appreciate everything about this detailed comment, especially the inclusion of the Hidden Valley packet. From TheNerdyMel: My “secret” dressing recipe is inherited from my mom. It’s basically doctored Hidden…
Give Your Coleslaw the Wedge Salad Treatment
Photo: Claire Lower Ever since I read that Ina Garten puts blue cheese in her coleslaw, I have been obsessed with a concept I’ve decided to call “wedgeslaw,” a coleslaw…
How to Keep Your Slaws From Getting Soggy
Photo: Anna_Pustynnikova (Shutterstock) Cabbage-based slaws—cole or otherwise—are transcendent when properly executed, but so easy to mess up completely. No one wants a bowl of cabbage shreds swimming in overly-sweetened, watered-down…