Category: Salad
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Blush Wine Vinaigrette
When I posted the picture of the salad my daughter and her friend made for our dinner the other night, Sandra asked what dressing they’d used. They got this vinaigrette from Simply Salads: More than 100 Delicious Creative Recipes Made from Prepackaged Greens and a Few Easy-to-Find Ingredients, which my sister gave me for my…
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White Bean Salad
This goes together quickly for a wonderful side dish but is also great the next day for leftovers. It’s a riff on a recipe I saw in a magazine. (Can’t remember which and I left out the mint it called for, as I’m not partial to mint in salads. I remember the original recipe called…
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Vinaigrette and Other Salad Dressings
I like mixing up my own salad dressings, playing with different vinegars or lemon juice, adding fresh or dried herbs. I just shake up the dressings in a small jar and keep that in the fridge so I can use the leftovers on lunch salads during the week. Most vinaigrette also makes a great marinade.…
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Chicken Florentine Salad
My sister gave me a copy of Simply Salads: More than 100 Creative Recipes You Can Make in Minutes from Prepackaged Greens (affiliate link) for my birthday. She had bought a copy for our mother, then bought one for herself after Mom tried a few of the recipes. I love getting a cookbook which has…
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Macheesmo’s House Salad Dressing with Tarragon Vinegar
I just bought Love Your Leftovers: Through Savvy Meal Planning Turn Classic Main Dishes into More than 100 Delicious Recipes, which looks very promising. Nick Evans writes the food blog Macheesmo. The book gives you some great recipes you can fix when you have more time (like roasting chicken, black beans, baked potatoes, salmon) and…