Salad

Cyndy made this salad for us during a visit. It has a great mix of sweetness, heartiness, and crunch. Beautiful and delicious! Ingredients 1 can drained chickpeas 1 C fresh spinach, chopped into...

Marina shared a recipe for Cauliflower Salad Sandwiches from the New York Times; delicious! If you make sandwiches, a roll handy to keep everything in place, since it’s a bit chunky....

Cyndy made this delish salad for us when we visited a few days ago, along with her wild rice salad. This recipe is super fast if you buy pre-cooked beats, which we get at Trader Joes. Trader Joes also...

Our grape vines are prolific, but the grapes are teeeeeeny. Larry’s sister Cyndy mentioned that she loved putting grapes in any sandwich, like tuna or turkey. That reminded me of a nice...

After a lovely, spur-of-the-moment hike with Judy and Robert on New Year’s Day, Judy made us a fabulous dinner of pasta and lettuce salad (with olive oil, rice vinegar, and cumin dressing),...

Larry has fond memories of cold spinach salad in Japan. We compared several recipes, and did a mix of several (from salu salo, fine cooking, iheartumami, and bon appetit - seriously, you used frozen...

Viki brought her adaptation of a carrot-top chimichurri to our outdoor distance gathering, and I fell in love with it! The tang and garlic are amazing on bread, or as a salad dressing (see...

During the pandemic, I ordered some soy curls and made fake chick’n nuggets out of of them, adapting this “chicken” soy curl salad. It was quite good! But it’s much easier to...

We have a ton of fresh cilantro growing in our side yard, to I searched for recipes that use a lot of it. This coleslaw recipe looked good, and also uses oranges, which we have tons of. Here’s...

Shelley followed up the wonderful mango guacamole with a fresh pea soup and this fantastic masala lentil salad, which is pretty easy to make if you buy the lentils & arugula ready to eat at trader...

This cashew cream potato salad is delicious, but I wanted to try a not-creamy potato salad. I found a Roasted Garlic Potato Salad from Oh She Glows that looked easy and worth trying. I don’t...

Larry’s sister Cyndy made this for us a decade or more ago, and then made it again for Thanksgiving this year, which reminded me how delicious it is! Ingredients 1 C wild rice, dry 1 C chopped...

A delicious vegan potato salad. Fools the omnivores! Can make it the day before a summer bbq. Adapted from epicurious recipe, and uses cashew mayo. Ingredients 3 pounds baby red potatoes 3 tablespoons...

An alternative to the fresh blueberry kale salad that is also amazing––maybe more so, with the candied walnuts. This is adapted from Oh She Glows Best Shredded Kale Saladto use candied walnuts instead...

The avocado in the dressing makes this, as does massaging the dressing into the kale for a few minutes to soften the leaves. I got this idea from Judy Stern in May 2014. I had tried to make kale...