SALADS
A hearty vegetarian salad with fresh ingredients and a variety of textures and flavors.
Not all salads need to be complicated. With a little mint and some tangy cheese, this is pretty much perfection.
Tart and earthy, this is a beautifully complex grain salad.
Roasting radishes brings out a sweetness that compliments the inherently spicy and slightly bitter nature of the root vegetable. Roasting them in butter, just makes them all the more delicious.
This summery salad is made with a mixture of punchy herbs and creamy components like feta, walnuts, and soft boiled eggs.
These green beans are cooked simply and mixed with a punchy dressing of lemon, cream and shallots, with an earthy kick from the fresh tarragon added just before serving.
This salad has so many delicious flavors and textures with toasted pecans, sliced dates, punchy herbs, and a tart-sweet dressing that marries the whole dish together.
This is one of those salads that you know will be tasty, I mean… fennel, kalamata olives, pomegranate seeds, of course it will be delicious. But the surprise is how well it all goes together and how none of the elements overwhelm the others.
Super simple chopped salad that can be served as a topping for chicken, steak, or pork, or as a great side salad for any Brazilian meal.
This is one of my all-time favorite salads. Brussels sprouts or broccoli both work equally well. The dressing is infinitely editable to your taste and it saves well in the fridge for days.
This is a simple salad with a nice combination of crunchy vegetables, ripe fresh tomatoes, and bright lemon and herb dressing.
A little of this salad goes a long way and is great alongside Pide stuffed with greens and herbs.
A complex and satisfying salad with sweet apple slices and grapes alongside savory bacon balancing a base of bitter greens.
Simple, crunchy, and a great side to the many rich Austrian dishes.
A composed salad with a delicious combination of textures and flavors.
In this beet salad, the leeks are blanched, the dressing is rich and nutty made with walnuts, garlic, and tangy tamarind water and vinegar. The textures come together in a lovely way and it is a subtle yet rich mix of flavors.
This salad is fabulous with its perfect mix of ingredients, insane crunch, and the brightness of the lemon in the creamy yogurt dressing.
This is a simple German version with slices onions, a quick vinaigrette, and whatever herbs you have on hand.
With an overnight marinade in the fridge imbuing the green beans with deep flavor, and a kicky dressing featuring shallots, thyme, lemon juice, and balsamic vinegar it is the perfect side to a rich main dish.
The surprising combination of walnuts, jalapeño, cilantro, and onions all topping simple kidney beans is at once refreshing and deliciously savory.
This salad is in many ways very reminiscent of a classic American potato salad, but the addition of carrots and peas and the simplicity of mayonnaise and dill pickles makes it a really delicious, if simple, dish.
I love the tart-sweet combination of crunchy veggies marinated in cider vinegar with a little sugar.
Easily a meal on its own, this garden salad is delicious and simple to make. Even better, serve it with a hot slice of Welsh Rarebit.
The flavors in the fritters and the side salad are infinitely flexible to what you have on hand or is in season. Just roll with what you have and enjoy it!
This tomato salad is dressed up with a quick bright dressing and topped with capers and basil. It makes a lovely refreshing side dish.
This salad has many of my favorite attributes: bright, hearty, easily made ahead and rested in the fridge until ready to serve, and surprising! The lime and honey tang and sweet with the earthy beets is such a great combination, but one that is unexpected.
Spain gets the double if not triple treatment each year thanks to two weeks of Pre-Season testing and the race at Circuit de Catalunya Barcelona. It’s a good thing there is such a variety of menu options and recipes to make! I have at least three cookbooks focusing on Spain, and still find delicious sounding things I have never tried before every time I open them.
It is hard to go wrong with pineapple-anything or avocado-anything in my book, but this surprising combination of flavors is more than the sum of its delicious parts.