Chipotle Shrimp Salad has spice to warm you up and creamy avocado to cool you off. It’s a great, easy-to-make, summer salad. It has a variety of salad greens as a base, with black beans, Cotija cheese, tomato, and avocado.
Main-Course Salads
Sometimes it’s nice to make a big salad and have that as a main course with the toasted, crusty bread, a glass of wine, and a friend.
Antipasto Salad with Panino
Antipasto Salad with Panino is great on a hot summer night and sports Panino. With warm garlic bread, you will feel like you are in Italy.
Asian Chicken Salad with Watermelon Rind Pickle
This fresh Asian Chicken salad sports summery and flavorful watermelon rind pickle in addition to the traditional ingredients. We’ve got a great recipe for the dressing, so keep on reading.
Air-Fried Tuna Steak Salad with Blood Oranges
Air-Fried Tuna Steak Salad will be on your list for favorite summer salads. The tuna stays moist and flavorful with less fat. The citrus vinaigrette is sweet and tart – party time for your mouth
Sous Vide Marinated Chicken Salad
Using a sous vide immersion cooker for the chicken in this salad makes it moist and full of flavor. A shout out to my good friend, Liza Boubari, who designed part of our logo, has a new show for women, about women, by women called The Original with Chris and Liza.
Grapefruit Beet Salad – Celebrate Summer
Grapefruit Beet Salad is a composed salad that is hearty enough to serve by itself with some crusty bread. Want it vegan? Omit the cheese and roast beef.
Giant Beans in Tomato Sauce Salad
Giant Beans in Tomato Sauce is a healthy dish that typically comes together over two days comes together in an afternoon with the help of an Instant Pot.
Black Lentil Salad – Instant Pot Easy on a Summer Night
When you want something tasty, healthy, and filling on a hot summer night, this might be just the one for you. Black lentils are unique because they do not lose their shape or flavor as easily as red and green lentils do. They have a nutty flavor that we love.
California BLT Salad with Justice Dressing
California BLT Salad with Justice Dressing is a delightful salad for the summer. It’s bacon, lettuce, tomato and avocado served with a delightful oniony dressing.
Pork Burrito Salad
Pork Burrito Salad
This was intended to be a Toastada with a beautiful shell, but, you know, you come home from work, you’re hungry, and that high falutin fiesta shell goes out the window. No problem, this was actually better because you could eat some, then pick it up and eat it like a burrito. Of course, you could put anything you want in here, chicken, beef, tongue, fish, or completely meatless.
I really like what I call Whole Meal Salads in the summer. It means usually not having to turn your oven on at all. If you want meat, you can get meat already cooked, like rotisserie chicken that I used in my Curried Chicken Salad. Have you noticed, it’s been a real summer of salads. That’s good, salads are healthy, depending on what you put in them. I try to keep high-end salads that have blue cheese dressing for special occasions, and keep everyone else with a little oil and vinegar, if anything.