Salads
A salad can be a fresh accompaniment or the center of a meal, depending on its ingredients and serving. Leafy vegetables, fruit, grains, beans, pasta, and potatoes give this collection several starting points. Dressings provide another browsing path, helping you choose how to bring the components together in the finished dish.
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Coleslaws & Slaws
Slaws combine cut vegetables and a dressing to create texture in a shared bowl or alongside a meal. This collection offers different seasonings and additions for that style of salad.
Fruit Salads
Fruit brings sweetness, acidity, and moisture into a salad, sometimes alongside vegetables or savory ingredients. Strawberry-tomato preparations and other combinations offer different balances within this collection.
Grain & Bean Salads
Beans, grains, and couscous bring body to these salads, with dressings and other additions changing their character. Marinated beans and cranberry-pecan couscous offer contrasting starting points.
Green & Vegetable Salads
Leafy greens, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, and other vegetables provide the structure for these salads. Fruit, cheese, or other additions can bring contrast, while the dressing ties the serving together.
Main-Dish Salads
Beef salad, Cobb salad, and crab-stuffed avocados offer salads substantial enough to anchor a meal. Browse the ingredients and serving size to choose a dish for the table you are planning.
Pasta Salads
Pasta gives these salads a base for vegetables, dressings, and other additions. Cherry bruschetta, tortellini, and ginger-sesame shrimp variations offer different flavors for a bowl to share.
Potato Salads
Potato salad can be warm, cool, creamy, or dressed with acidity. Ranch, lemon-garlic, and mustard vinaigrette preparations offer different approaches to a familiar meal accompaniment.
Salad Dressings
A dressing brings seasoning, acidity, and sometimes creaminess to the salad bowl. Carrot-ginger and cilantro preparations offer different starting points for pairing a sauce with the ingredients you want to serve.
In this collection

Tomato and Watermelon Salad
You will be surprised at how well watermelon and feta work together. Salty, sweet and refreshing, every bite bursts with flavor. This salad is truly a keeper, and…
Green Goddess Dressing
Ingredients 1/2 medium ripe avocado 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar 1 garlic clove, finely chopped 2 oil-packed anchovies, very finely chopped 1/4 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon lime juice 3/4 cup olive…

Bacon Blue Potato Salad with Soft Boiled Eggs
Ingredients 3 pounds baby red potatoes 1 1/2 cups cherry tomatoes, quartered 4 scallions, thinly sliced 8 slices cooked bacon, crumbled 6 ounces blue cheese, crumbled 3 tablespoons…
Chicken Salad Melts
For a touch more sweetness, substitute halved grapes for the apple. You can also chop the apple and add it to the salad mixture. Ingredients 2 cups shredded…

Creamy Egg Salad
I love this egg salad’s versatility – serve it on a nest of mixed greens, tucked into a sandwich or with your favorite crisp crackers. Ingredients 3 ounces…

Coleslaw — Back to the Basics
My coleslaw doesn’t include fussy ingredients such as pineapple, corn, peppers, onions, or carrots (even though carrots are tolerable). It’s simple and clean and it works really well…

Burrata and Roasted Asparagus and Tomato Salad
If you haven’t had the chance to try burrata, you HAVE to put it on this year’s bucket list. Burrata is a fresh cheese with an outer shell…
Classic Potato Salad
Ingredients 2 pounds red and/or yellow new potatoes, quartered 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 1/4 cups (225g) mayonnaise or salad dressing 1 tablespoon (20 g) yellow mustard 1/2 (4…
Red Potato Salad with Bacon
Ingredients 2 pounds tiny new red potatoes, scrubbed and quartered 1 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise or salad dressing 2 teaspoons white vinegar 2 teaspoons yellow mustard…
Corn and Potato Salad
Ingredients 3 ears corn 2 pounds small waxy potatoes, such as Yukon Gold or Red Bliss Kosher salt 1 medium red onion 3 tablespoons cider vinegar Black pepper…
