Category: Salad
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Caramelized Nuts for Salads
Perk up your green salads with these caramelized nuts. I’ve made these with walnuts and pecans, depending on what I have opened. Last night it was walnuts. This recipe is from The Food Nanny, a great book with good recipes and good menu ideas, essentially assigning a category to each day of the week with…
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Russian Salad from Verdura
I picked up a used copy of VERDURA: Vegetables Italian Style by Viana La Place after reading multiple posts on Chowhound about how great the recipes are. I’m quite glad I did. I’ve mostly been making the salads but there are lots of pastas, soups, antipasti and even main dish recipes as well. This Russian…
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Spinach, Avocado and Mango Salad
Shopping at Costco when you’re hungry and have a veg and fruit loving daughter with you can be dangerous! We have lots of produce to eat up. When I made the beef spiedini the other night, I also made a large salad with spinach, avocado, mango and red onion. We completely polished it off and…
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Corn and Black-Eyed Pea Salad from A Gracious Plenty
You could make this Corn and Black-Eyed Pea Salad with almost any canned bean I think. I like black-eyed peas but sometimes they can be tricky to find where I live. What’s good is all the crunch of the vegetables with the dressing. Play around as needed! The recipe is from A Gracious Plenty. I…
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Cornbread Salad from A Gracious Plenty
I saw this Cornbread Salad in A Gracious Plenty, a cookbook I read about on the Chowhound home cooking board. (Warning: This board can do serious damage to your cookbook budget!) Even though it didn’t win the “cookbook of the month” (where everyone cooks and reviews recipes from the same cookbook), I wanted it. The…