Share your salad recipes!

I sure love salads, as long as I get some decent variety. I recently got tired of my regular, lettuce or cabbage-based ones, so I decided to combine some leftover ingredients and came up with this little thing. It's surprisingly good!

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What you'll need:

• 6 sticks of celery
• one can of kidney beans (I usually buy dry beans and book them myself, but I can't get them anywhere lately)
• cashew nuts (I use about two fistfuls, but feel free to add more or use less)
• fresh parsley
• 1 red pepper
• cheese (I used Gouda)
• juice of one lemon
• salt and pepper
• oil

Peel your celery (make sure you get rid of all the stringy stuff) and cut it up, dice your red pepper, shred your parsley, add in the beans, cashews and cheese. Sprinkle it all with the lemon juice, a bit of oil, salt and pepper, and give your ingredients all a good stir.

Hope you enjoy this salad! Also, feel free to post your salad recipes here - I'd really love to see more ;)

I've made some intricate ones before, and Night Fury does a couple of warm salads as well, but our go-to salad is really simple, delicious and goes with anything. Some iceberg lettuce, bocconcini, an orange, some extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar; tear up the bocconcini balls, segment the oranges and then add the olive oil, vinegar and some salt to taste. That's the bare bones base of it, from there you add in or substitute various lettuce types that you prefer, along with anything else you feel will work well. It's a summer salad primarily, so cucumber, fennel, red cabbage and other fruits like pomegranate or even passionfruit work really well. It is especially amazing paired with seafood.

Salads I make tend to boil down to add whatever you fancy, drizzle with olive oil and vinegar - hey presto a delicious salad. Reading Pheesh's post, I realise how European this must be.

My favorite salad is baby spinach, black beans, thinly sliced red onion, chopped tomato, cucumber, bacon, maybe some hard boiled egg or grilled chicken and maybe some pepper jack cheese.

Dressing? I do a vinaigrette with evoo lime juice, garlic, and jalepeno. And maybe some chopped cilantro.

Awesome looking! I'll share some when I make some :D

I really need to start eating more salads. They can be so tasty *yet* healthy at the same time.

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Originally Posted by Formalhaut

I really need to start eating more salads. They can be so tasty *yet* healthy at the same time.

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Cashews are your friend, Forms.

Just fistfuls of spinach.

Okay, you take:

• Lettuce
• Croutons
• Boiled eggs
• Italian dressing

and then you throw them into the smurfing trash and get some jack daniels pulled pork instead because salads are the worst

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Okay today, I made a kind of Greek Salad

I chopped up some fresh romaine lettuce and put it in a bowl with some thinly sliced red onion, pitted/seeded kalamata and black olives, whole cherry tomatoes, and this yummy feta cheese I got from the deli section.

I made a red wine/evoo/garlic vinaigrette to toss it with.


Was mega yummy!