Chinese Chicken Salad

Chinese Chicken Salad is a flavorful mix of sweet and savory with a range of textures.

Cucumbers, lettuce and cabbage give it a cool, crunchy bite that is in direct contrast to the tender pieces of savory chicken and the soft, juicy pop of oranges. Toasted sesame seeds and sliced almonds further the crunch factor. In a word it has everything you could wish for in a salad. [Read more...]

Chopped Pear and Spinach Salad

There’s something about a chopped salad I adore. A salad cut into a million little pieces so just about every single bite includes the sum of its parts. For that perfect bite. Best when there’s a mix of sweet, savory and salty flavors as well as soft, crunchy and chewy textures.

This chopped salad has all of that going for it and more with bosc pears, sliced almonds, dried cranberries, couscous, feta cheese, cucumbers, tomatoes, baby spinach and romaine tossed together in a honey mustard dressing. Your taste buds will scream happiness. [Read more...]

Asian Spinach Salad with Salmon and Edamame

This Asian Salad with spinach, edamame, salmon, scallions and toasted sesame seeds is one of the best I’ve made all summer. The star of the show is the soy and ginger dressing. I could drink it up! And in fact, did.  The little puddle that settled on the bottom of the bowl. I couldn’t resist. [Read more...]

Southwestern Chicken Salad

This is my new favorite salad! I have an inkling it will be yours too, if you adore southwest flavors half as much as I.

A mix of crisp and cool romaine and iceberg lettuces tossed with corn fresh from the cob, earthy black beans, meaty olives, tomatoes and red onion then topped with homemade tortilla strips for crunch and tender, rotisserie chicken. [Read more...]

Zucchini Ribbon Salad

Have I told you how happy I am zucchini season is here?

If I have, I hope you’re not sick of hearing it! It’s early in the season and surely I will be professing my adoration again.

Did you know you can eat zucchini raw? Well, you can and it is delicious! In case you were wondering. The texture is kind of like cucumber and the flavor? [Read more...]