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Salad Recipes

The possibilities are endless with salad recipes.  Let your creativity run free!

The last strip in Bill Watterson's classic comic Calvin and Hobbes said "A day full of possibilities.... let's go exploring!" and that's exactly how it should be with salads.

Almost any salad can easily be made into a main dish by adding a protein, as you can see here and here and here.

Almost any salad recipe can be changed by adding a different nut, a different salad dressing, a different cheese, or a different leafy green.

Even the texture of a salad can change with a different knife cut.  Shred or chop the salad ingredients finely for a chopped salad feel with less chewing.  Or make it chunky by leaving salad ingredients bigger for more chew.

Here's my favorite salad recipes by season:

  • Spring - Strawberry Arugula Salad with Pecans and Goat Cheese
  • Summer - Peach, Fig, and Arugula Salad with Blue Cheese
  • Fall - Kale Salad with Dried Mangos and Cranberries
  • Winter - Fennel, Avocado, and Cherry Tomato Salad
Diced egg mixed with thyme, diced red onions, capers, and sliced chives on a bed of butter lettuce.

Simple Egg Salad with Thyme and Chives

2 white plates with thin sliced fennel, chunks of avocado and quartered cherry tomato salad

Fennel Salad with Tomatoes and Avocado

quartered strawberries, chopped pecans, and crumbled goat cheese on arugula salad on a shallow bowl/plate.

Strawberry Arugula Salad with Goat Cheese

top view of potato salad on a square aqua plate with utensils on the side. Close up view.

My Favorite Potato and Egg Salad

Shrimp laying on top of farro, pistachios, and sliced radishes. Garnished with fresh green herbs, sliced green onions, and grated parmesan cheese.

Shrimp and Farro Salad

Two shallow white bowls filled with chopped lettuce, sliced cucumbers, sliced radishes, , cherry tomato quarters and blue cheese and pecan crumbles. Two forks, two knives, and two white napkins on the side. Close up.

Chopped Romaine Lettuce And Chickpea Salad

Green Sweet Pea, Toasted Sliced Almonds & Thin Sliced Radishes in a brown bowl with a spoon hanging out.

Sweet Pea, Almond, and Radish Salad

White Bowl of farro, and edamame with a small bowl of toasted pine nuts and another small wood ball with a portion size of the dish topped with feta. side view.

Farro Salad with Edamame, Pine Nuts, Feta Cheese

Top view of artichoke salad with kalamata olives, sliced orange peppers, capers and a bowl of pickled red onions on the side.

Baby Artichoke Salad with Pickled Onions

Close up of wood bowl of green salad with raisins, crushed almonds, and red pepper flakes. Fork on the side.

Kale and Almond Salad with Lemon Dressing

Blood Oranges & Roasted Yellow and Red Beets on a white plate with thyme and walnuts sprinkled over the top.

Blood Orange and Beet Salad

Apple, Celery, Raisin & Walnut Salad In A Brown Dish With a Spoon

Simple Apple, Celery, and Walnut Salad

PInk grapefruit segments with black kalamata olives and fresh chopped rosemary in a wood bowl. close up. top view.

Grapefruit and Fried Olive RosemarySalad

Roasted butternut squash on top of arugula on a white plate. Garnished with chopped walnuts and red pomegranate kernels. side view.

Roasted Butternut Squash Arugula Salad

Top down view of chunked kale on a white oval plate with chunks of orange mangos, cranberries, and pistachios on top.

Kale Salad with Cranberries, Pistachios, Goat Cheese

Chopped Kale & Red Cabbage w/ slices of raw red peppers, shaved carrot, sliced green onions w/ brown rice & cilantro in a white bowl with a side of brown peanut salad dressing

Kale and Red Cabbage Salad with Rice and Pecans

Corn, Edamame, & Red pepper Succotash with red peppers with a fork in a brown bowl. close up.

Easy Corn and Edamame Succotash

Two brown bowls with spoons of diced cucumbers and avocado salad. Green onion garnish in a black bowl on the side. White and burgundy patterned napkin on side. Close up.

Addicting Avocado Cucumber Salad

Top down view of a white plate with chopped greens with quartered figs and pine nuts and goat cheese. Fork on the side of plant and pine nuts on the side.

Fig and Goat Cheese Salad with Kale and Pine Nuts

Top View Corn & Lima Bean Succotash with diced Zucchini In A brown Bowl with a Wood Spoon

Butter Bean (Lima Bean) and Corn Succotash

Egg Salad mixed with mayonnaise and topped with chopped parsley in a white bowl with a wood spoon with a white napkin underneath the bowl. Very Close up.

Simple Chunky Egg Salad

Sliced Peaches, quartered figs, chunked pecans, and crumbled blue cheese on a deep plate with fork and napkin. Top view.

Peach, Fig, & Arugula Salad with Blue Cheese

Oval white bowl of corn salad w/ quartered cherry tomatoes, jalapeños, red onions, and cilantro. Side view.

Easy Frozen Corn and Tomato Salad

top view of oval shallow bowl and wooden small bowl filled with colorful sliced watermelon radishes, cucumber, fennel, carrots, and celery. Jar of red tomato dressing on the side.

Radish, Fennel, and Cucumber Salad

Top down view of sliced cucumbers and red onions in a tan bowl. Close up.

Cold Cucumber Dill Salad

Close up. Bowl of sliced sugar snap peas, orange peppers, red cabbage, and candy stripe beet . Large White bowl with a wooden spoon.

Sugar Snap Pea Slaw w/ Ume Plum Vinegar

1 plates of iceberg wedge lettuce (2 wedges on each plate) topped with diced tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, and salami in a vinaigrette.

Italian Antipasto Salad with Iceberg Lettuce

Shrimp Salad w/ Horseradish, Chives, Lemon In A White Bowl.

Simple and Easy Cold Shrimp Salad

Side View Chopped Asparagus w/ Microgreens, chopped almonds, and chopped tomatoes on a white plate with a black rim.

Microgreen Salad with Asparagus and Tomato

Fresh asparagus, red onions, cherry tomatoes and a dijon mustard & white wine vinaigrette.

Fresh Asparagus And Tomato Salad

Side view of white bowl of green salad with shelled edamame, pecans, cherry tomato halves. Fork sticking out.

Arugula, Edamame, Tomato Salad

Top view of a white plate with fork with quartered figs, sliced salami, shaved parmesan and croutons.

Fig and Salami Salad with Parmesan

2 wood bowls of cole slaw with sliced red peppers, green onions and celery with cilantro and peanut garnish. Dressing, two forks and napkins in background.

Asian Inspired Napa Cabbage Salad

Top view of a bowl of cole slaw: cabbage and grated carrots in a white bowl. Forks on the side.

Simple and Easy Coleslaw

White bowl of chunky red onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, yellow and red peppers salad. Wood spoon it it.

Easy and Simple Summer Salad

Close up of halved cucumbers with seeds taken out tossed in a soy / sesame oil sauce and topped with sesame seeds and cilantro.

Simple and Easy Asian Cucumber Salad

Brown bowl full of cooked diced chicken, diced celery and pickles, diced red onions stirred with white mayonnaise and garnished with parsley. Wood spoon in it.

The Best Cold Chicken Salad

Two wood bowls of seaweed salad (1 bowl is dry and 1 bowl is rehydrated) with 3 sets of chopsticks. Side view.

Easy Wakame Seaweed Salad

Top view. Chunks of shredded chicken, with whole cashews, raisins, and celery in a yellow curry mayonnaise dressing. White bowl.

Cashew Curry Chicken Salad

White plate of romaine lettuce, chunked beets and chopped pecans with a white dressing and orange zest garnish. Wine glass filled with water in the back. Outside table.

Simple Beet and Romaine Salad with Pecans

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I’m Beckie Hemmerling. I love food and I think of it on a basic level of providing strength & nourishment. Cooking has helped me *try* to figure out life, not just my own, but also other people's. I have cooked through many joys / sorrows and cooking has always been a meditative place through these highs & lows. More background info →

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