Guests will never be able to guess that Peychaud’s is the mystery ingredient in the dressing that blankets this warm, wintertime salad. Cold month lettuces like radicchio can taste acerbic, so you might not think bitter on bitter to be the best idea. Yet, in a dressing, the ruby red liquid harmonizes with sweet honey and salty rendered bacon fat. The result: a hearty wintertime salad that’ll beget the home cook nothing but praise at a dinner party.
Click here to get the recipe for this cold-weather salad, and learn more about cooking with bitters here.
-photo by Carmen Troesser
This article appears in January 2014.