Salad

Super Food Salad with Ginger Sesame Dressing has amazing color, interesting ingredients, crunchy texture, and delicious taste!

You’ll love this recipe for Sesame Chicken Salad with a fresh ginger-infused vinaigrette. And, the fact that it’s heart healthy is an added bonus! Summer is right around the corner and you know what that means—swimsuit season! I don’t know about you, but it’s a real moment of truth for me to go swimsuit shopping. …

Rainbow Lime Potato Salad—a pretty and tasty side dish for Spring—gets a little extra zing from fresh lime juice and zest! Listen up, people, this is not yo’ mama’s potato salad. I mean, have you ever seen such a colorful dish of potatoes? Did you know you can get bite-size potatoes in the produce aisle in …

Do you ever get in a rut and realize that you are eating the same for lunch every day? Or is your morning routine so rushed that you skip packing a lunch before heading out the door? When I was working in an office full time, I found myself rotating between the same three or …

Sweet and crunchy, Poppy Seed Kale Salad is a delicious “almost homemade” side salad. Once you try it, you’ll be hooked! Since the New Year we’ve really been working hard to add more green foods on our plates. In essence, I guess we’re trying to balance out those times when we splurge a little—everyone deserves a treat now and …

Chicken Caesar Salad is reinvented by substituting kale—one of the top-rated super foods—instead of the traditional romaine lettuce. Chicken Caesar Salad is one of my very favorite restaurant lunch menu items, but I realize that when dining out many Caesar-style dressings are often high in calories and fat. That sort of defeats the purpose of eating …

One of my very favorite house salads is the Insalata Della Casa served at Bravo’s Italian Restaurant so I was thrilled when I found a copycat recipe a few years ago. Chopped salads typically consist of all diced or chopped ingredients, including the lettuce, which are tossed together with the dressing before serving. Insalata Della Casa starts with a base of iceberg …

SWEET and SPICY! Sweet Potato Salad gets spice from diced fresh jalapeño and sweetness from a simple maple syrup vinaigrette. If you’re headed to a Fall picnic or tailgate, Sweet Potato Salad is a healthy alternative to traditional potato salad and can be prepared in a half the time. This Sweet Potato Salad has a little kick because it is spiced …

Tropical Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing featuring fresh pineapple and mango. I must have been dreaming about the beach when I was at the grocery store a few days ago because I came home with some of my favorite tropical fruits — fresh pineapple, mangos, and kiwi — without a real plan for how I’d …

Mango Chicken Chopped Salad with a homemade Mango Vinaigrette is almost too pretty to eat and special enough for any Summer dinner party! This fresh and healthy chopped salad that I shared first over at The Weary Chef should definitely be on your dinner table this summer! Once the summer heat and humidity settle in here in the …

Grilled Asparagus Panzanella Salad with a tangy red wine vinaigrette, toasty grilled bread, fresh cherry tomatoes, red onion, and Kalamata olives can be completely assembled grill-side making for a fun outdoor dining experience. With the absolutely perfect combination of Greek flavors, this easy salad starts with day-old country-style bread and the star ingredient, grilled asparagus! …

Lots of color and crunch combine to create a beautiful and delicious, not to mention healthy, version of Asian Chicken Salad that you can make at home. Lots of color and crunch combine to create a beautiful and delicious, not to mention healthy, version of Asian Chicken Salad that you can make at home. Get creative …