Showing posts with the label Salad

Smoked trout dinner salad

Smoked trout dinner salad with cucumber, celery, baby potatoes, pickled onions, marcona almonds and grainy mustard vinaigrette. This salad comes together in as long as it takes to…

Antipasti Chopped Salad

🇮🇹Ever just want salad for dinner? Enter my favorite antipasti chopped salad. The pictures salad is lacking olives because I was all out - I highly recommend customizing it to y…

Beet, mushroom, fennel and Parmesan salad.

This is one of the many salads I made up while cooking in Tuscany and it was a big hit so I’ve redone it and written everything down. Large button mushrooms are easier to slice, b…

Farro salad with beets, veggies, nuts, and a creamy green herb dressing

I love making versions of this farro salad. Lately I’ve been putting beets in it (red or gold) but you could leave them out if beets aren’t your thing! It’s full of veggies, nuts …

Fattoush Salad

Fattoush is a Northern Lebanese salad made with leftover pita, tomatoes, herbs, cucumber and other vegetables. It started as a way for people to use pita scraps so they didn’t go …

Ginger, Garlic and Sesame Meatballs with Mint and Lime

These ginger, garlic and sesame grilled meatballs are flavor bombs full of mint, ginger, garlic, chilies, scallions, sesame and lime. Maybe the best part about them is that you ca…

Greek Salad

I forgot how much I love a good Greek salad! It’s simple, healthy and so delicious. Did you know a traditional Greek salad (horiatiki) doesn’t have lettuce??It’s just tomatoes, be…

Grilled Corn Salad with Peaches and Arugula

This grilled corn salad with peaches, arugula, tomatoes, hatch chili and lime is about as summery as salad gets.... Ingredients:5 ears corn, shuckedone hatch chili or jalapeño…

Weeknight Thai Steak Salad

I love this steak salad when it's hot out and I don't want to spend too much time in the kitchen. If you buy pre washed lettuce mix and shredded cabbage, you can have dinn…

Thai Cabbage Slaw with Peanuts

I'm obsessed with this easy, bright, Thai dressed, no mayo or oil slaw. 
Ingredients:
1/2 head red cabbage, sliced thinly with a knife or mandolin 1 carrot, peeled and julienned …

Orzo Salad with Feta, Pine Nuts, Lemon and Parsley

This is the only pasta salad I really love. Orzo with feta, pine nuts, lemon and parsley. It’s light (olive oil, no mayo), bright from lemon juice and lemon zest, a little salty a…

Greek Yogurt Ranch Dressing

Confession: I have NEVER liked ranch dressing from a bottle. I know this makes me kind of a freak because it’s the most popular dressing on earth, but I’m just not down with it. H…

Raw Corn, Tomato, Almond and Lime Salad

One of the easiest, tastiest summer salads I know. The combination of sweet corn, juicy tomatoes, crunchy almonds and tangy lime can't be beat. You can add avocado, herbs lik…

LA Cabbage Chop Salad

This is a salad we make in our house with odds and ends from the refrigerator and fruit bowl. If you make it a habit to buy red cabbage with your groceries, you're 10-15 minut…

Farro with butternut and delicata squash, hazelnuts, spicy pickled raisins and pepitas

This is great fall and winter side dish or meal in itself. The spicy pickled raisins add a nice punch but you could leave them out or add them unpickled and the finished dish wil…