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

Zucchini with Feta, Walnuts and Dill
Raw zucchini is wonderful when sliced very thin, carpaccio-thin. In this recipe it’s topped with feta, dill, and walnuts for a Greek spin, but it would be equally…

Fried Caprese Salad
Ingredients 1 large tomato – sliced into 3 – 1/2″ rounds salt/pepper 1 cup all purpose flour 1 egg – beaten 1 cup panko bread crumbs 1 cup…

Creamy Broccoli Salad with Bacon, Cheddar & Almonds
Ingredients For the Dressing 1 cup mayonnaise, best quality such as Hellmann’s or Duke’s 2 tablespoons cider vinegar 3 tablespoons honey or sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon…
Shrimp Avocado Salad
Shrimp Avocado Salad is perfect for a quick lunch or supper during the summer. Add to a sandwich, pasta, or atop greens, too! Especially when it is hot…
The New Egg Salad
New Egg Salad is a tasty sandwich spread on its own, but it also pairs well with these combinations: tomato, feta, and sprouts or tomato, bacon, and watercress.…

Autumn Crunch Pasta Salad
A simple pasta and spinach salad with crunchy apples, celery, and toasted pecans, chewy dried cranberries, sweet mandarine oranges and coated in a delicious poppyseed vinaigrette. Ingredients 5…
Pork Noodle Salad
Pork cooks quickly in the broiler, making this meal a clear choice for busy weeknight dinners. Ingredients 6 ounces uncooked rice vermicelli 1/4 cup rice vinegar 1 tablespoon…

Skagenröra (Shrimp Salad)
There are so many uses for this quick, easy poached shrimp salad. You could go the Swedish route and eat it with boiled potatoes or on rye crisp…

Warm Balsamic Potato Salad
Ingredients 1/3 cup (80 ml) balsamic vinegar 3/4 cup (180 ml) olive oil, plus extra for cooking 1 garlic clove 1 Tablespoon Dijon-style mustard Salt, to taste Ground…

Warm Shrimp Salad with Honeydew and Feta
This refreshing main course salad offers contrasts of all kinds—warm and cold, sweet and savory, herbal and spicy—but it’s the addition of cracked whole coriander seeds that really…
