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Salsa Verde
This salad looks impressive, but it’s so simple. The avocado salsa is the key ingredient. We just bought some pre-made salsa from Safeway which was actually pretty good, but doing a simple google search resulted in several recipes on how … Continue reading
Carrot with Pasta
The 5 lbs of carrots at Safeway was too good of a deal to pass up. The dinner I needed them for ended up only using 2 carrots, so it was time to do carrot salad again. I decided to … Continue reading
Sesame Soba
This is our second soba salad of the week and also my third post! This one was heavier on the noodles. I love when noodles and rice disguise themselves as salads. It is really flavorful, mainly from the vinegar and … Continue reading
Soba Rainbow Chard
This salad is really pretty with the purple from the rainbow chard. It was based on a recipe that is actually for a warm dish, but we turned it into a salad. I think it worked really well. If chard … Continue reading
Kale Fennel with Green Goddess
This recipe is based on a salad I ate at one of my favorite pizza places in SF, Gialina. This picture doesn’t quite show all the ingredients well. I also substituted the Trader Joe’s israeli couscous mix for farro. I … Continue reading
Tomato Mozzarella Farro
The key to farro is to not over cook it or under cook it. This salad is pretty filling with the farro and the cheese, but this means I didn’t have to find a snack later in the day, which … Continue reading
Roasted Red Pepper & Chickpea
This one has homemade roasted red peppers…so much better tasting than the canned ones. I can only imagine what non-canned chickpeas would taste like. I will try this one day! This is a good tutorial on how to roast peppers. … Continue reading
Fig Apple Pear
This salad was made because my friend bought me dried figs, thanks j!! She couldn’t believe I had never seen them before. I just made up the rest of the salad and added some pepitas that I had leftover in … Continue reading
Edamame & Red Quinoa
Ahhh, sorry for not posting again. I have gotten very far behind again. My plan to just post once per week has failed. I’m playing catch up again and will post 3 in a row right now. This edamame and … Continue reading
Croatian Fig
This one is going to be hard to re-create exactly because we used dried figs from Croatia! That’s where one member was a few weeks ago. She had this salad at a restaurant there and found the dried figs while … Continue reading