Summer salad

If your hosting a summer dinner, attending a BBQ, or heading to a picnic this is a great salad to serve.

I've been growing my own lettuce and boy is it growing fast. I harvested some and chopped it up for the base of this summer salad. The greens were a mix of spinach, romaine, mixed greens, and red leaf lettuce. Topped with sliced strawberries and some lemon thyme. The thyme is from my herb garden and one of my favorite herbs. The hint of lemon is delicious.

Topped with some balsamic vinaigrette, given it a toss, and served up.

There's so many summer variations to this recipe:

* feta

* fresh grated white cheddar

* sliced almonds

* pistachio's (something unexpected)

* raspberries instead of strawberries, or maybe both!!

* sliced peaches or nectarine

* other herbs such as dill or basil

Since it's summertime just make sure it's fresh, local, and in season fruit for that special over the top flavor.

Salad
Thank goodness this is the last night of the Costco organic salad green's. It was good but I'm so tired of eating it. I mixed it with some shredded carrots and asparagus, and tossed it with 1 TB. Newman's light balsamic vinaigrette.

Veggie green's

Salad
mixed greens
chopped broccoli
sliced red onion
soy nuts for some crunch (these are really good in a salad, they add some salty and crunchiness)

I mixed the salad with 1 Tb. of Drew's smoked tomato dressing and put a dollop of jalapeno hummus on each of our salads. If you haven't had hummus on a salad before you are missing out. It ad's so much flavor and creaminess, and you only need a little dollop, it's also low in fat.

Yummy salad

Wow, this looks like a gigantic salad. It had a little bit of everything I like at Whole Foods.
mixed greens
raw spinach
shredded carrots and broccoli
red onion
chickpeas
vegan Parmesan cheese and nutritional yeast
(click on the link to find more info. on these two, they are delicious)
lemon quinoa
1 falafel Patti
hummus
red peppers
soy nuts

Mediteranean Salad

This was the biggest salad I could make. This salad was better than any salad you would get at a restaurant. It was a base of mixed greens, shredded carrots, and chopped asparagus tossed in 1tsp. of Newman's vinaigrette. On top was diced roasted red pepper, diced artichoke, feta, a dollop of Tj's jalapeno and cilantro hummus and Tj's roasted red pepper hummus. On the side Great Harvest sweet wheat n oat bread cut into cubes and toasted for croutons, and also on the side a skewer of chicken.

Salad

Not the best picture, but it was so good.
mixed greens
fresh spinach
hummus
1 falafel pattie
some tofu
shredded carrots and broccoli
soy nuts ( they added some good crunch)
roasted sweet potatoes
artichoke's
lemon qunioa

And probably some other stuff I can't remember. Really it was just a little bit of everything delicious.

Mexican salad

Mexican Salad
Tj's ground turkey cooked with garlic, diced onion, and taco seasoning.
Beans; a mix of Tj's refried beans, black beans, salsa, pimento's, and a squeeze of lime.
Topped with lettuce, shredded carrots, reduced fat cheddar cheese, and salsa
All on top of a Tj's whole wheat flat bread

Croutons

I made some croutons for our salad

I tossed in a bowl, 2 slices of diced Tj's whole wheat naan bread with a sprinkle of garlic salt, oregano, thyme, basil, and parsley with 1tsp. of olive oil. Bake at 350 degrees for 10min. and than toss and cook on broil for 2 min. at a time for 4 min. tossing in between. The naan bread was the perfect bread for the croutons. They were crunchy on the outside and soft on the outside.

Salad

Salad with extra shredded carrots, some pepperoncinis, a little feta, and 1Tb. of seeds of change roasted red pepper vinaigrette.

I split this bowl with Jeff, just wanted you to know I did not eat all of that.

Greek Salad

with sliced red onion, diced red pepper, and pepperoncini's my favorite

salad

Pear salad

Green salad with diced red pepper, sliced red onion, and a juicy pear, tossed in a Newmans vinaigrette.

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Broccoli salad

Salad with broccoli, red pepper, and red onion tossed in seeds of change vinaigrette