Category: Salads and Dressings
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Cranberry-Broccoli Salad
Hear’s a recipe that I like to make over the holidays, but it’s actually great any time of the year! It’s called Cranberry-Broccoli Salad. The dried cranberries and the honey-sweetened dressing add a light sweetness to this side dish. And the sharp Cheddar cheese and bacon bits add some savory flavor. Mix those things in with…
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Italian-Style Veggie Pasta Salad
If you are a fan of cherry tomatoes, you’ll like this pasta salad, because it has alot of them! Some of my friends share cherry tomatoes from their gardens, so I had quite a few. I wanted to use some in a recipe and I thought a pasta salad sounded good.
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Easy Creamy Coleslaw
Hello and hope you are all staying cool! This is one of the hottest summers we’ve had in awhile! I don’t like to bake or cook much when the weather is this hot—instead, I make a lot of salads, sandwiches, and simple side dishes that require little or no cooking. Like this Easy Creamy Coleslaw…it’s…
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Street Corn Salad
I’m so glad May will be here soon–the weather is warming up, flowering trees are in full bloom, and more and more plants and flowers are springing up! And this time of year I start craving more summery kinds of foods–foods that are easy to make with minimal or no cooking involved. Like salads, for…
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Eggless “Egg Salad”
I had a block of extra-firm tofu in my fridge, which I was originally going to try baking. But then I came across an eggless “egg salad” recipe using tofu and I decided to try something like that instead.
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Spinach, Blueberry, and Blue Cheese Salad with Blueberry Vinaigrette
Salads make great light lunches on hot, humid days and it’s even more convenient when you can make them ahead of time for work or just to have handy at home. I found lots of great grab-and-go ideas in Mason Jar Salads and More by Julia Mirabella. The salads are made by layering the ingredients vertically in Mason…
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Shoepeg Corn Salad with Honey Dressing
I was looking through some old recipes I’d clipped from magazines awhile ago and came across one for Shoepeg Salad. It sounded like a great side dish for summer. I found some other variations on this salad at different recipe sites and ended up making my own version. This is a sweet, crisp salad; some sites describe it as a “relish.” It’s great…
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Veggie Chip Salad with Avocado
Potato chips remind me of summertime—I guess it’s because they always seem to be at picnics and cookouts! I’m not a heavy potato chip eater, and maybe because of that, the last bag of chips I bought at the grocery store about a month ago seemed super salty and greasy to me. Then I heard about Tyrrell’s…
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Super Greens Fiesta Salad and a Greens Giveaway!
The Giveaway is now closed. When I buy salad greens, I like buying organic. Last week, I had the chance to try some complimentary greens from OrganicGirl. This company specializes in making a variety of salad blends and greens that are all organic, triple washed, and packaged in 100% recycled plastic packaging, which I think…
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Apple Pear Pecan Salad
It’s always fun trying out different ways to make salads—it makes salad-eating a little more interesting! In the summer months, I like adding strawberries and blueberries to my salads. So I thought I’d try making an “autumn” type of salad with apples and pears. There’s also creamy crumbles of feta cheese mixed in, along with…
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Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
If you like vinaigrette on your salads, and if you like honey-mustard flavor, then you’ll have to try this vinaigrette! It’s very quick and easy to make, and really good! This Honey Mustard Vinaigrette recipe has a great lightly-sweet and tangy taste and makes about 1 cup of vinaigrette, so if you need more you’ll want…
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Juanita’s Crunchy Coleslaw
You may have had this coleslaw or something like it at a potluck or picnic. I’ve had this side dish several times recently, and every time I have it, I think, “I need to get that recipe!” The most recent time I had Crunchy Coleslaw was when Juanita made it for a department lunch at…
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