Three Beautiful Salads

Recipes, Seeing: Recipes

In the spring and summer, a salad can make a whole meal, full of fresh ingredients, clean taste, and the beauty of colors that delight the eye as well as the palate:

Mediterranean style veggies with boccincini

  • Ingredients: cucumbers, grape tomatoes, red peppers, sliced onions, boccincini rounds
  • Dressing: Basil pesto, EVOO, crushed garlic

Spinach salad with strawberries or blueberries and feta 

  • Ingredients: spinach, strawberries or blueberries, sliced mushrooms, crumbled feta chess and toasted almonds
  • Dressing: EVOO (extra virgin olive oil) and balsamic vinegar (3:1); whisk and drizzle over top

Field greens with green onions, shrimp and sesame-citrus vinaigrette 

  • Ingredients: field greens (including romaine, arugula, spinach), green onions, cooked and cooled shrimp, julienned peppers
  • Dressing: orange juice, sesame oil, crushed garlic, grated fresh ginger, toasted sesame seeds