When it's your turn to bring a potato salad to a picnic gathering, avoid the mayo and toss together some of the season's best produce with a tangy dressing that won't shrink from the sunshine and heat. In fact, serve it warm or cold!
A chopped salad is the perfect accompaniment to your favorite picnic foods. No more wilted greens. Instead, a brightly colored bevy of fresh vegetables, kalamata olives, and tangy feta cheese will have you grabbing a second helping.
I often make salads in the summer that last well in the refrigerator and serve as lunches during the week for me. So it will come as no surprise that some of my favorites include tender lentils. In fact, I've been known to keep a bowl of cooked lentils on hand to make salads super fast!
Leftover chicken - hot or cold - and fresh air-fried croutons bring this classic salad into main course territory and a homemade dressing makes it swoon worthy. A perfect quick meal to help meet your family's dinner needs during the dog days of summer.
A beautiful spring salad brings complexity, flavor, and color to your table. Make it quickly and easily with the help of an Air Fryer, nonstick skillet, and some boiling water. Then enjoy your first bites of a new season.
Main dish salads become absolutely stunning in fall. In this one, tender chicken gets paired with everything the season has to offer: from crisp cucumbers and peppers to sweet cherry tomatoes and corn fresh off the cob. This bright and healthy salad is a treat to look at and an even bigger treat to eat!
A perfect summer salad blends flavors of the Mediterranean to bring the sea to your home wherever you live. Everything from briny olives and tangy lemons to grilled chicken and cheese make this main dish salad a standout any day.
An excellent side salad or pita filler, this rainbow colored salad is perfect for adding color and nutrition to your plate, not to mention loads and loads of flavor. And if you want to convert it into a main dish salad, add chopped chicken, sautéed shrimp or salmon, or your favorite seared tofu.
As warmer weather finds us, work some south of the border salads into your menu mix. This one is chock full of fresh vegetables, black beans and olives, plus a spicy-tangy seared chicken that will make your heart and tastebuds sing.
Fresh and dried fruit, nuts and seeds, and so much more make this gorgeous salad a splash of color against a winter backdrop. Serve it as is or add sliced chicken or pork to it for a main dish salad sensation.
The challenge of a main dish salad is different than that of a side salad ... and keeping texture and variety in mind can mean the difference between a tantalizing meal and a boring chunk of lettuce.
Summer days are often synonymous with salad days and for good reason. Salads can be a great way to keep your kitchen cool, get lots of fresh fruits and vegetables in your diet, eat healthier, and find ways to get creative with ingredients.
I could probably live off caprese salad and chunks of bread in August. But mixing it up a bit can be a welcome treat. Adding an element of sweetness with juicy nectarines and fresh mint to this classic summer salad is perfect for the August heat.
Continuing our theme of keeping cool in summer, a super main dish salad gets a special kick from super simple, super fast pickled red onions. You'll be keeping a jar on hand for everything from tacos to salads to grilled steaks after you realize how easy they are to put together!
When a bunch of favorite foods find their way into a main dish salad, it's a healthy, delicious dinner without a lot of fuss. And that can be an especially wonderful thing, particularly when the list of favorites comes from an intrepid youngster who loves exploring food and cooking.
When left to my own devices, I'll incorporate stone fruit into most meals this time of the year. So when I find myself in the possession of a bunch of greens and a need for lunch, these normally sweet-centric fruits become the stars of a savory salad.
The final installment in our series on great side dishes for the summer focuses on an overlooked ingredient that's perfect for summer salads. I'm talking about one of my kitchen powerhouses: Israeli couscous.
A cool, colorful salad is a great side to a perfect steak because you can use your imagination or use one of the recipes here to make something mouthwatering and tempting.
An elegant brunch salad will have you dreaming of breakfast tables by the beach, lazy mornings in bed and all the casual elegance of New England entertaining.
Everywhere around me, spring is doing its thing. The grass is getting green, the flowers are blooming, and I'm looking for ways to work fresh produce into my meals as much as possible. So when tender venison steak finds its way to my kitchen, giving it a bath in Thai-inspired marinade and light searing before resting it on a bed of fantastic fresh greens and crisp vegetables seems only natural!
Fish is generally a quick meal and that is especially true when the fish is quick-seared tuna and it finds a home on top of fresh greens and vegetables. Dinner is fast, delicious, and nutritious when spring provides the basics.
