Tag: Salad

  • BLT Chicken Salad with Easy Ranch Dressing

    BLT Chicken Salad with Easy Ranch Dressing

    Here’s another easy Ranch dressing to go this BLT Chicken Salad.  In fact, I didn’t have buttermilk so I created a substitute with 1 teaspoon  of vinegar in 1/3 cup milk.  Just stir it in and let it sit for 5 minutes or so and you’ll have some slightly curdled buttermilk-like base for dressings. You…

  • Spinach, Orange and Strawberry Salad

    Spinach, Orange and Strawberry Salad

    For Easter brunch, we squeezed a bunch of oranges and made mimosas.  I purposefully squeezed extra orange juice and used some for basting the ham. I had extra and remembered seeing a salad dressing made with orange juice. As it turned out, it was for a spinach salad with strawberries, daikon radish, and oranges.  That…

  • Buttermilk Ranch Dressing From America’s Test Kitchen

    Buttermilk Ranch Dressing From America’s Test Kitchen

    We all tend to like the Ranch dressings in restaurants but then when I buy a commercial Ranch dressing we are disappointed.  It just never has quite the taste we like.  I went back to a homemade version to go on a steak salad I was making for dinner with the last of the Montreal…

  • Chinese Chicken Salad

    Chinese Chicken Salad

    With the warmer weather, we are coming up on the time when a salad for dinner sounds really good.  The combination of warm meat and cool greens with a spicy sweet dressing really hits the spot for me.  I’ve been making my way through older recipes and remaking some so I can take pictures and…

  • Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad

    Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad

    Sweet, salty and crunchy.  One of my favorite combinations.  Last night I added some sliced radishes from the garden to this broccoli and cauliflower salad. The broccoli was all from the garden too.  I love this time of year! I’ve made this with and without bacon. I like the taste of the bacon but it’s…