So now that it's warm again, what healthy salads/side dishes do you serve?
I was trying to crunchify my old tangy macaroni salad recipe, and it was disgusting. I threw it all away.
I love tabouleh, but I need some more ideas!
DH and I grew up on macaroni salad and potato salad in the summers. The potato salad I just use Spectrum mayo in, and it doesn't have any sugar, so we'll still eat that, but I'm thinking there's no saving the macaroni salad! LOL. My recipe is so yummy but sooooo full of sugar (1 cup, plus a can of sweetened condensed milk! )
So what do you all make, aside from the usual garden tossed salad?
I get so many cucumbers from the csa farm and I never know what to do with them, other than put them in green salad. I must have your recipes!
Thanks,
Cary
BTW, my favorite green salad recipe is salad greens, goat cheese crumbles, pear slices, green onion or chives, almonds and some sweet dressing (ie rasberry vinagrette, poppy seed, etc)
Yum!
Fresh salsa and tortilla chips- there's nothing like fresh salsa with fresh cliantro & parsley. How about fruit salsa?
Spinach salad with strawberries and some type of seed or nut.
Any salad with romaine, green leaf or red leaf lettuce. (I know you all know this but western or iceberg lettuce doesn't have many if any nutrients, basically it is just crunchy water)
The local hfs deli has a real yummy tofu garlic dressing.
I still like macaroni or potato salad! but can get into into carbo overload. I don't add sugar or salad dressing though (like yucky "miracle whip" ew! MPO hope this doesn't offed mw lovers) . How about macaroni salad with green peas, juilenne carrots, pasta, canola mayonaise (or veganaise if yer vegan), salt, pepper and a lil spike. Add tuna or leftover chicken if you eat it. Or potato salad with canola mayo, celery seed, boiled eggs, onions, celery.
Chicken salad if you eat chicken. Canola mayo , salt, pepper, chicken, celery, cashews, curry, green seedless grapes sliced. If you wanted to make it veggie -with chikn chunks or xfirm tofu.
Fruit salad. Kiwi, strawberries, grapes, mango, basically anything colorful that won't brown. Just mix it together.
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I love, love, love gazpacho. Wonderful use for all those tomahtoes and peppers in the garden. And nice and cool for summer dinners.
Do you like couscous? You can make it and then let it cool to eat at room temperature. I mix in chopped red bell peppers, chopped tomatoes, parsley, really whatever looks yummy. I tend to use WW couscous.
I love fresh tomatoes chopped up with basil, chopped cukes, and little chunks of feta cheese. If you're an olive person, that would probably taste good, too. (I'm not.)
Baby spinach with thinly sliced pears, walnut chunks, and a nice strong cheese.
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a few cups of cooked black beans, a cup or so of cooked garbanzo beans, finely diced red, yellow, and green pepper, red onion, cuke, celery...basically anything crunchy that you like and toss it with some olive oil and red wine vinegar and just a smidge of rapurda (sugar)
I have a bowl of this going constantly thru the summer.
1 package edamame cooked and rinsed
1 can mixed beans rinsed
1 can black beans rinsed
half a big cucumber chopped
a red pepper chopped
a bunch of green onions chopped
a bunch of wild garlic chopped including leaves (or 4 big cloves regular garlic)
2 stalks celery minced
salt and pepper
1/4 cup rice vinegar or juice from 3 lemons
1/4 cup olive oil
Directions:
Mix together and serve at room temp or cold.
Black Bean Quinoa Salad
The lime juice can be replaced with lemon juice, if you want a slightly different flavor.
Ingredients:
1/3 cup quinoa
1 cup water
1 tsp olive oil
4 tsp fresh lime juice, or more to taste
1/4 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp ground coriander
1 Tbs finely chopped fresh cilantro
2 Tbs minced scallions
1 1/2 cups cooked black beans
2 cups diced tomatoes
1 cup diced bell pepper (red, green, or yellow)
2 tsp minced fresh green chiles
salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Rinse the quinoa well in a sieve or cloth under cool running water. Boil water, then add quinoa, cover and simmer on low, until water is absorbed (about 10-15 minutes). Allow to cool (another 10-15 minutes). In a bowl, combine oil, lime juice, cumin, coriander, cilantro, and scallions. Stir in the beans, tomatoes, bell peppers, and chiles. Add quinoa, salt, and pepper.
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diced avacado
diced tomato
fresh or frozen corn(thawed)
lime juice
chopped cilantro
a little fresh chopped( tiny )jalepeno if you are so inclined.
salt and pepper
This is really fresh tasting...
yum!
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Cucumbers -- My staple in the summertime!! Creamy Cucumber salad - YUMMO! Easy - peasy and sooo yummy!!! I love cucumbers, my DD#2 - Sophie, is crazy about them too. We eat them raw, with salt, and dipped in thousand island dressing. I have an awesome homemade recipe for the dressing.
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Cucumber salad
Macaroni with fresh parsley and parmesean cheese
Garden salad (all grown by me!!) with cilantro, mint, basil and parsley
Fresh fruit bowl with lemon and mint
Mango/peach salsa with cinnamon WW totilla crisps (just butter and cinnamon on a WW torilla and then put on the griddle)
Edemame
I agree with the black bean salad
Rice with chedder, dill, and parsley
Fresh tomatos and red onions sliced and tossed with vinigrette dressing, (I often add half balls of fresh motezerlla, and fresh lemon basil leaves, but I don't have too)
Bree, basil, cherry tomatos, and potato rosemary bread (MY FAVORITE!)
Butter saute'd yellow squash and sweet potatoes dipped in egg, WW flour, and sprinkled with Spike.
These are our main ones and they are SO good!!!! I can't wait to get to summer now... you all have made me really hungry! lol!
Love Val
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Originally posted by mowglimonster diced avacado
diced tomato
fresh or frozen corn(thawed)
lime juice
chopped cilantro
a little fresh chopped( tiny )jalepeno if you are so inclined.
salt and pepper
This is really fresh tasting...
yum!
We eat this often, too. I usually add rinsed black or pinto beans, as well.
We do lots of guacamole in the summers. My standard is avacado, red onion, tomato, lime juice, garlic, salt, pepper, and cumin.
We love fresh corn on the cob squeezed with lime juice and sprinkled with paprika--yum.
Last summer when I had squash coming out my ears, we had squash with corn and tomatoes like 2 times a week. And I stewed okra and tomatoes--that was good.
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Last edited by BunnyMcFluff : 06-02-2004 at 02:26 AM.
4 cups jicama, peeled and julienned
2 oranges, sectioned
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped
1/3 cup fresh orange juice
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
Salt and black pepper to taste
1. Mix the jicama, orange sections, and chopped cilantro in a bowl.
2. Whisk together the remaining ingredients, toss with the jicama-orange mixture, season to taste with salt and pepper, and serve.
So now that it's warm again, what healthy salads/side dishes do you serve?
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