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!
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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 traditional summer salad gets an elegant makeover that makes it a star of your summer entertaining. Suddenly, the main course can be fairly pedestrian grilled chicken, fish, or steak when this salad is around to dress it all up.
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When my daughter's favorite cafeteria offering inspires dinner, everyone wins. Get a delicious, healthy salad recipe that blends a lot of fun with a lot of flavor and get dinner on the table in about a half an hour.
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If you are looking for a beautiful, healthy, easy salad to serve for Thanksgiving, look no further. When the colors of the rainbow and the flavors of the Middle East, Asia, and the Mediterranean join forces, you know the salad course is something special.
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Tahini, a rich sesame paste, is perhaps most well known for starring in ever-dippable hummus. However, it's a great ingredient in all kinds of dishes. My favorite most recent application has been in a salad dressing that's easy to put together, boasts a fantastic flavor complexity, and is so good you'll want to eat it with a spoon!
Combining the cool, crisp ingredients typical of a great salad with spicy, tender chicken makes for a lovely summer salad. What's more, you can make several parts of it ahead of time and keep your kitchen cool in the evening heat!
There's nothing like a wonderful blend of colors, textures, and flavors in food. This is especially true of salads this time of the year, when ingredients are at their freshest and we're all looking for something refreshing and light on our plates.
We're entering what is often lovingly referred to as the dog days of summer — that time when it seems like the only way to combat the heat is to lay around and pant like a pooch. But I prefer to call them salad days and fight heat and boredom with one gorgeous salad!