Category: Salad
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Creamy Salad Dressing from Jacques Pepin
This is another hit from Jacques Pepin’s Fast Food My Way. You can visit the KQED site here and watch some of the videos. I’ve been recording the old ones and watching them on tv as KQED is showing them again. He says this was his mother’s favorite dressing for salad and I can see…
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7 Layer Salad aka Pea Salad
Make this summer potluck standard ahead and let it chill, even overnight. (It’s also called Overnight Layered Salad). The basis for this one came from The Comfort Table by Katie Lee Joel. You can find a variety of different vegetables used for some of the layers. I used lettuce, celery, red pepper, scallions, peas, then the…
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Fresh Corn Salad
I found this recipe in Penzey’s spice catalog and thought it would be great for the barbecue I had planned for Saturday. When I have people over, I like to do as much ahead of time as possible and in this case I planned on making a few salads and then barbecuing a tri-tip when…
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Honey-Lime Dressing
Got this straight from RecipeGirl. I mixed it all up in my small Magic Bullet Express blender. My girls love it for making smoothies and my youngest likes to whip various home spa concoctions in it, but I do like it for quick salad dressings and marinades. If you don’t have a blender or food…
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Japanese Salad Dressing
This is from Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen. She says salads are not traditional Japanese food but “sometimes modern is good.” I didn’t follow her directions for the salad ingredients, but did for the dressing and it was really nice. I’ve been tempted to buy the Asian…