endive and celery salad with fennel vinaigrette
I know you all think I must be immune to this, but I go through phases of Down With Cooking all of the time. Sometimes, I’m just extra tired. Sometimes, the food outside the apartment is way more tempting, as it has been since we’ve moved into a new neighborhood full of intriguing sandwiches, hummus joints and more new flavors than I could pack into a year. Other times, I lack inspiration, or worse, an appetite as I did through that needling first trimester. I have cold cereal for breakfast, peanut butter and jelly for lunch. I fib my way through it on this site, plugging in recipes I have backlogged and sticking to simple things like snacks of in hopes that if I do not force it, it will come naturally back to me. I fear cooking becoming a chore, though I know even this worry is a luxury exclusive to people who share blocks with six eateries.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 9 of 11 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 9 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Fennel | 1/2 bulb (87g) | 27 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Shallot | 1 tbsp minced (10g) | 7 |
| Celery | 1 stalk (40g) | 6 |
| Lettuce | 1 cup shredded (36g) | 5 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Seed | not in our table | 0 |
| Endive | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons fennel seeds, toasted
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped shallot (1 large)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 pound frisée (French curly endive), torn into bite-size pieces (10 cups) [we swapped butter lettuce]
- 3 Belgian endives, cut crosswise into 1/2-inch-wide slices [we swapped regular green endives]
- 1 bunch of celery ribs, thinly sliced crosswise (1 to 2 cups, depending on the size of your bundle)