Salad Recipes

October winds were rattling the windowpanes, and the only thing I wanted was a bowl of fresh autumn harvest fruit salad that felt like a … Read more

My husband stared into his empty bowl, scraped the last creamy bite with a fork, and asked if I could make the creamy cranberry walnut … Read more

I had been looking for a salad that actually felt like autumn without the heavy, carb-loaded guilt. For a while, I just accepted that fall … Read more

I burned the croutons on my very first attempt at this crispy harvest chopped salad. It wasn’t a subtle mistake, either. I left the oven … Read more

Third time in three days I made this cucumber salad, and this time I actually measured the dill instead of just shaking it over the … Read more

My neighbor, Carol, showed up at my back door with a bottle of wine and a confession: she’d accidentally defrosted three pounds of chicken breasts … Read more

Late July, and the only thing I want is a bowl of creamy cucumber salad with dill and sour cream. The kitchen windows are steamed … Read more

The kind of creaminess that clings to every forkful—that’s what I was after. Not the watery, sad potato salad that gets left at the bottom … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple salsa—plain, straightforward, nothing fancy. I grabbed the wrong mango from the fruit basket (too ripe, honestly), the blender … Read more

“Why can’t we just toss the sun-dried tomatoes in whole instead of blending them?” my friend asked one afternoon as I was preparing what I … Read more