Salads: There's a Place for a Salad in Every Meal
Salads recipes can range from a simple collection of greens dressed with oil and vinegar and intended as first course or side dish to elaborate, carefully cotrsucted compound affairs with layers of ingredients artfully arranged and intended as a main course.
Greek Caprese Salad: Variation on a Classic
I make a Greek version of the famous Insalata Caprese - in fact it's my standard lunch during tomato season. Serves 2.
I make a Greek version of the famous Insalata Caprese - in fact it's my standard lunch during tomato season. Serves 2.
Pasta Salad with Seafood: Odd but Great
This pasta salad with seafood features shrimp, crab, and smoked salmon, dressed in the oil and lemon juice. Serves 2.
This pasta salad with seafood features shrimp, crab, and smoked salmon, dressed in the oil and lemon juice. Serves 2.
Potato Salad: An Old Family Recipe
This is an unusual potato salad recipe. It’s surprisingly simple with only five ingredients plus salt and pepper. Serves 2.
This is an unusual potato salad recipe. It’s surprisingly simple with only five ingredients plus salt and pepper. Serves 2.
Ingredient: Vinaigrettes
A vinaigrette is basically just oil, acid, and flavorings. If you get the proportions right you can make custom vinagrettes for any meal.
A vinaigrette is basically just oil, acid, and flavorings. If you get the proportions right you can make custom vinagrettes for any meal.
Iceberg Wedge Salad: Retro Classic
A wedge of iceberg lettuce topped with dressing was a popular, and even elegant, salad in the 50s and 60s. It's worth trying again just for nostalgia's sake. Serves 2.
A wedge of iceberg lettuce topped with dressing was a popular, and even elegant, salad in the 50s and 60s. It's worth trying again just for nostalgia's sake. Serves 2.
Thousand Isalnd Dressing: A Fifties Favorite
Thousand Island Dressing (1000 Island) is one one of America's favorite salad toppings - but it's also great on burgers and reuben sandwiches. Makes 2 cups.
Thousand Island Dressing (1000 Island) is one one of America's favorite salad toppings - but it's also great on burgers and reuben sandwiches. Makes 2 cups.
Curried Chicken Salad: Sweet, Spicy, Savory, Wonderful
This recipe for Curried Chicken Salad is sweet, spicy, and savory and extraordinarily good. It's perfect stuffed in a pita, layered on a sliced croissant, or nestled in a lettuce leaf. Serves 2.
This recipe for Curried Chicken Salad is sweet, spicy, and savory and extraordinarily good. It's perfect stuffed in a pita, layered on a sliced croissant, or nestled in a lettuce leaf. Serves 2.
Beet Salad with Feta
This recipe for beet salad with feta presents a great collection of tastes: sweet, salty, and tart, with peppery notes from the arugula. Serves 2.
This recipe for beet salad with feta presents a great collection of tastes: sweet, salty, and tart, with peppery notes from the arugula. Serves 2.
Stuffed Tomatoes: A Perfect Summer Meal
This recipe for stuffed tomatoes in unusual in it's inclusion of feta cheese ad capers. But a stuffed tomato is hard to beat however it's made. Makes 4.
This recipe for stuffed tomatoes in unusual in it's inclusion of feta cheese ad capers. But a stuffed tomato is hard to beat however it's made. Makes 4.
Tuna Salad Parmesan
This version of tuna salad includes bell peppers, capers, red onions, and the shredded. Serves 2.
This version of tuna salad includes bell peppers, capers, red onions, and the shredded. Serves 2.
Soy Vinagrette Dressing - Perfect with Grilled Meats
Soy sauce gives this salad dressing a hearty flavor that makes it perfect for salads deaturing grilled meat.
Soy sauce gives this salad dressing a hearty flavor that makes it perfect for salads deaturing grilled meat.
Chickpea Salad
Chickpeas are a main component of the Mediterranean diet foud in hummus and felafel. This salad, from Paula Levine Weinstein and Julie Komerofsky Remer, is another way to enjoy this tasty, high fiber bean. Serves 2.
Chickpeas are a main component of the Mediterranean diet foud in hummus and felafel. This salad, from Paula Levine Weinstein and Julie Komerofsky Remer, is another way to enjoy this tasty, high fiber bean. Serves 2.
Tabouleh: A Middle-eastern Favorite
Tabouleh is great at any time of the year, but is best with fresh local ingredients so I particularly look forward to it as a summertime treat.
Tabouleh is great at any time of the year, but is best with fresh local ingredients so I particularly look forward to it as a summertime treat.
Pasta Turkey or Chicken Salad
Use whatever fresh vegetables you have on hand for this delicious turkey salad recipe from Linda Larson, About Guide to Busy Cooks. Serves 2.
Use whatever fresh vegetables you have on hand for this delicious turkey salad recipe from Linda Larson, About Guide to Busy Cooks. Serves 2.
Blue Cheese Dressing: Different, Delicious, Deadly
This recipe for blue cheese dressing is for blue cheese lovers only, it will knock your socks off.
This recipe for blue cheese dressing is for blue cheese lovers only, it will knock your socks off.
Carpaccio: A Recipe for Italian Sophistication
Carpaccio is an Italian recipe for a raw beef appetizer dressed with a lemony mayonnaise. My Carpaccio recipe uses a balsamic vinaigrette and is a great summer meal. Serves 2.
Carpaccio is an Italian recipe for a raw beef appetizer dressed with a lemony mayonnaise. My Carpaccio recipe uses a balsamic vinaigrette and is a great summer meal. Serves 2.