Salads & Dressings
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Mediterranean Fregola Salad
I had all of the ingredients for this salad in my pantry and fridge. I recently had placed an order for spices from Penzey’s and ordered a new spice, Pico...
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Orange Broccoli Farro Salad
This recipe is the perfect winter salad. The orange delivers an interesting unexpected freshness to bring all the flavors together. I love the extra nuts...
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HOMINY SALAD
This is a delicious, colorful salad that takes very little time to put together. I love the corn flavor from the hominy in the salad to give this a very...
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Strawberry Avocado Kale Salad
This is a very basic, quick and delicious strawberry avocado kale salad. The avocado will give you a nice creamy texture on top of the kale. You can...
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Asian Cherry Peanut Salad
I purchased some freshly roasted Hatch chili peppers and beautiful dark red cherries and came up with this salad. I love the color, textures and fresh...
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Good Salad
My husband came up with the title of this salad and I think it sums it up pretty well. This salad is a perfect combination of basic and complex flavors and...
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Strawberry Avocado Dressing
Strawberries and avocados make the perfect combination for a salad dressing. The avocado will make a nice creamy dressing thicker then vinaigrette. You...
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Cranberry Toasted Almond Chickpea Salad Sandwich
This salad is a great alternative to chicken salad. The key is to save the chickpea liquid to make a creamier sandwich. My husband said this is his new...
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Wheat Berry, Kale, Vegetable Salad
This salad is not only pretty but very delicious. There is a lot of texture and color going on in this dish. The dressing is just the perfect coating...
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Easy Kale Salad
This is a great salad that takes no time at all to prepare. If you like it sweeter just add a bit more honey.
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Tricolor Bean and Tomato Salad
My sister and I went to the farmer’s market in Des Moines and came home with some beautiful green, yellow and purple beans. I made this dish using the...
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Raspberry Purple Kale Salad
My favorite green these days is the purple kale that I can pick up at the CO-OP in Iowa City. The taste is amazing and almost has a slight floral odor when...
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Pomegranate Orange Salad
This dish can be served as a wonderful side dish with any meal or simply for a nice light lunch. It would also be great to serve with a Christmas morning...
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Spanish Rice Salad
We were invited over to our friend’s house for Mexican food and I made this salad to go along with the potato pinto bean enchiladas I took. This salad has...
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Kale Clementine Pomegranate Salad
This salad has a wonderful explosion of flavor and textures. I love using red kale for this salad but you can substitute any other kale. A friend gave us...
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Chickpea Rice Salad
I made this salad for lunch today and really liked the results. This salad can be made ahead of time or with leftover rice from the night before. This...
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Door County Cherry Apple Salad
There are few things better than Door County cherries. I use them in just about everything. This salad is super delicious and filled with lots of...
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Orzo Salad
Orzo is wonderful pasta to use when you want a lighter meal. It also works very nicely with wheat berries.
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Beet, Carrot & Apple Slaw
This salad has a lot of crunch from using raw ingredients like the beets, carrots and celery. The dried fruit and nuts enhance the vegetables quite nicely...
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Detox Salad
I had this salad at the Bread Garden Market in Iowa City. The flavors are fantastic and fresh along with some nice textures from the different ingredients...
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Fiesta Salad
This would be my version of a healthier Chipotle veggie burrito bowl with no oil, no cheese and no sour cream. Delicious!
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Sunshine Salad
I first had toasted brown rice and sesames in Iowa City at Atlas. I had to know how this was done and immediately went home and made a batch of this. This...
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Asparagus Salad
This is my favorite way to eat asparagus and its quick easy and fantastic! My friend Bonnie gave us the most beautiful asparagus and we ate the entire...
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Beets, Zucchini and Greens
This was a quick and easy way to use extra greens the need using up. The salad is pretty and very nutritious. Feel free to use any greens you have...
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Kale Fruit Salad
Fruit salad and kale makes the perfect salad combination! No need for any sugar, there is plenty of sweetness from the fruit and the delicious vanilla...
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Roasted Potato Salad
My husband prepared this for dinner along with a kale salad with fruit. This was delicious! The leftovers were tremendous; they were equally delicious...
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Cranberry Rice Salad
This salad is not only beautiful but super healthy! The bright red color from the cranberries and red chard stems along with the vivid green from the...
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Pomegranate Peach Fruit Salad
Dailyn came up with this idea for the fruit salad. She loves pomegranate seeds and thought they would be very pretty in this fruit salad.
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Kale Arugula Salad
I love using flavored vinegar to dress kale. If you can’t find vanilla balsamic vinegar, mix a teaspoon of pure vanilla extract with balsamic vinegar.
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Summer Succotash
This salad was the perfect side with bean tacos. The colors are wonderful and the lime juice and garlic is all the dressing this salad needs
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Strawberry Kale Salad
I have been using flavored vinegars for different salads and are they ever delicious. The vanilla and strawberry balsamic vinegars are perfect on top of...
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Potato Skillet with Salad
This was a fairly quick evening dinner that was put together in no time at all. The potatoes will remind you of the fried potatoes we all grew up on...
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Kale, Cauliflower Salad
Cauliflower is the perfect compliment with kale and golden raisins. This is a delicious salad you could serve for any luncheon or entrée for dinner.
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Beet Greens & Purple Sticky Rice Salad
I made some roasted beets yesterday and the greens were too beautiful to throw away. I made this salad with items I already had in the refrigerator and...
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Broccoli Rice Salad
I discovered whole grain red rice at Whole Foods. When cooked, it is the most beautiful rice ever. The hint of curry along with the sweet grapes,...
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Wheat Berry Lima Bean Salad
There is a lot of texture going on in this salad. Using wheat berries, lima beans, broccoli, celery and kale create a wonderful arrangement of crunch and...
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Rice Salad
This salad was basically made from ingredients in my pantry, other than the olives. This is a super easy and very tasty salad. This is a great salad to...
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Zucchini Salad
This is a recipe I love to make in the summer time. It was adapted from a recipe I used from The Enchanted Broccoli Forest cookbook. The original recipe...
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Oma Katie’s Green Bean Salad
This recipe came from my brother in-law Jim’s mother. She brought this to every family get together. If you like it zesty you add more vinegar, if not use...
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Beets & Greens Salad
This salad can be prepared with only one type of kale or any type of mixture you prefer. I love the color of using different greens together. It takes a...
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Orzo with Purple Sticky Rice
I made this for our Easter dinner. The flavors were nice and light with the lemon and oregano. This was excellent served cold the next day for lunch.
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Kale, Fruit and Walnut Salad
This is my husband’s new favorite version of kale salad. All of the colors of the fruits along with the kale are very pretty. This salad is loaded with...
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Jicama Bean Salad
I had several small packages of opened dried beans I needed to use and came up with this recipe. If you don’t want to take the time to use dried beans, you...
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Corona Bean Salad
I discovered these beans at Williams and Sonoma. These are the most delicious beans I have ever eaten! They are similar to butter beans but much larger. ...
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Mushroom, Squash Cranberry Couscous Salad
If you don’t want to spend a lot of time fixing a delicious filling salad, make this dish. It helps that the mushrooms and the squash were already cut. I...
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Savory Kale Salad
This is a quick and easy salad that can be served as a side dish or a bigger serving and makes it an entrée.
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Olive Orzo Salad
Orzo makes any salad very light. The flavor comes out with the combination of the lemon, garlic, fresh basil and oregano. The vegetable stock and balsamic...
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Wheat Berry Medley Salad
I like to use different grains other then brown rice all of the time. Wheat berry is an excellent and easy grain to use for anything from breakfast to...
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Heirloom Tomato Salad
I noticed a beautiful new shipment in the store today of heirloom tomatoes. I threw this salad together in no time. The sweetness of the honey with the...
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Brussel Sprouts Salad
This salad I made for Thanksgiving. I think it is one of the prettiest and most delicious salads I have ever eaten. The combination of the Brussel sprouts...
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Sweet Potato Orzo Salad
This salad I created with a combination of squash from a friend’s garden along with brussels sprouts and sweet potato orzo from the Farmer’s Market. The...
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Green Orzo Salad
This salad is not only beautiful but light and delicious. The lemon and garlic really bring the salad to life.
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Hearty Roasted Beet & Orange Salad
The salad is full of textures and flavors. The orange balsamic vinaigrette over the beets and roasted potatoes is fabulous.
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Orange Balsamic Vinaigrette
I discovered how well balsamic vinegar and oranges work together when I had something similar on a salad at Bonfyre Grille in Madison. Super delicious!
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Sherry Vinaigrette
I use this vinaigrette quite often when I want a slightly sweet dressing. This is great on the kale salad as well as any thing with fruit.
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Yellow Eyed Pea Vegetable Salad
I had never heard of yellow eyed peas until I was visiting my sister in Georgia and she took me to a peach stand. The vendor was selling bags of yellow...
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Orange, Cranberry Pistachio Wild Rice Salad
This is adapted from Ellie Krieger 2007 recipe. I made this and took this to a family gathering. One of my nephew's friends who is this big, burly kind of...
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Dijon Vinaigrette
This vinaigrette works well on salads and steamed veggies.
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Farro Salad
This salad was something I threw together for a quick dinner. I had left over carrots from the farmer’s market I wanted to use. The textures were really...
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Kale Salad
My sister was visiting from Georgia and I took her out for lunch at one of my favorite restaurants in Iowa City, The Motley Cow. I had this dish for lunch...
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Green Bean Salad
This is something I threw together after going to the farmer’s market. It might sound strange with the orange balsamic vinaigrette but it is very delicious...
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Wheat Berry Vegetable Salad
This is a very hearty salad that is very satisfying. The smell of the rosemary with the garlic is heavenly.
