March 2012

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle

We’re curious – what are some of the ways you go green?

Here are a few ideas from Noodles employees:

• Use glass or aluminum bottles to hold your favorite beverage.
• Save plastic containers and jars from items like margarine and spaghetti sauce, etc. and use them to store small things like picture hanging nails, paper clips, stamps and more.
• Use candles at dinner – it saves electricity and makes it more romantic.
• Line dry clothes outside in summer. They smell great!
• Shop farmers markets for great local produce.

Tessa’s Tips – Colorful Kale Salad

Watch as Chef Tessa prepares “Colorful Kale Salad”
See why she calls it that, uncover her most recent obsession and get the perfect ratio for making any type of salad dressing. Along the way you might also learn a little French, a little Spanish and a lot of Tessa.

Chiffonade
(A knife technique used for cutting herbs and leaf vegetables into thin strips or ribbons.)
Pepitas
(Spanish for “little pumpkin seeds”)