Summer Salad Recipes
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Seven Summer Salads
Ok, there are eight salads here but I really like the sound of Seven Summer Salads. Summer is nearly here and it is time to start thinking about yummy, healthy, summer salads. People usually feel like eating lighter when the weather turns warm and salads certainly fill the bill. There are so many wonderful ingredients that can be used in salads so there is never a reason to be bored with them. Summer salads are a great way to get a nutritional boost with all those colorful, phytonutrient-containing vegetables! This summer, use the produce of your garden to create delicious and healthy salads. As a general rule, the more colorful the vegetable the more nutrients it contains. So start eating your greens, reds and yellows!
A Word About Salad Dressings
Oil and Vinegar Dressings
It is very easy to make your own oil and vinegar salad dressing and it is much healthier too. A very basic dressing is composed of oil, vinegar, pepper, and salt. You may use equal quantities of oil and vinegar, or one-third vinegar to two-thirds oil depending on your taste. There are any number of ingredients you can add to this to vary the flavor. I have used fresh squeezed lime or lemon juice, cayenne pepper and garlic powder. I put all of the ingredients in a jar with a lid and shake to mix. Get creative with your salad dressings and use what you like. I like to use organic apple cider vinegar and olive oil but you can use any vinegar that you like along with walnut oil or Asian toasted sesame oil. Other ingredients you might try are, fresh chives, dry mustard, chopped basil, crushed red pepper flakes, cumin, chili powder, jalapeno or honey. The possibilities are really endless! Cray-fish Salad
Crawdads add protein to your salad
Cray-fish Salad.- Cray-fish (or craw-fish) resemble small lobsters; they are excellent as a salad, and are extensively used in garnishing fish salads. Boil two dozen cray-fish for fifteen minutes in water slightly salted; break the shells in two; pick out the tail part of each; cut it in two lengthwise; remove the black ligament. Put lettuce leaves into a salad-bowl; add the fish; pour over them a mayonnaise. Garnish with the head part of the shells, tufts of green, and hard-boiled eggs. Salad Spinners eBay
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Salmon Salad
An entree salad
Boil a six-pound salmon, whole; when done and cold place it on a long fish-platter; garnish with dollops of mayonaise. Garnish with the small center hearts of lettuce, hard-boiled eggs, cray-fish, and little mounds of shrimps or oyster crabs.Salmon Salad #2 Put into a salad-bowl three stalks of celery, sliced; add half a pound of canned salmon; arrange neatly; add mayonnaise; garnish and serve
Salmon Salad #3 Broil two salmon steaks; when done break the fish into flakes and add to it a little salt, pepper, and two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Let stand for an hour. Half fill a salad-bowl with lettuce; add the fish, and garnish with hard-boiled eggs and green olives.
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Scallop Salad
Yummy scallops
Soak twenty-five scallops in salt water for half an hour; rinse them in cold water and boil twenty minutes; drain. As an alternative, the scallops may be lightly sauteed in olive oil. Cut them into thin slices; mix with an equal quantity of sliced celery; cover with mayonnaise, garnish, and serve. You might choose to dress this salad with a light oil and vinegar mixture instead. The delicate flavor of scallops is perfect in a summer salad. 
Asparagus Salad
Buy asparagus in season
Remove the binding round a bunch of asparagus, cut off an inch of the root end of each stalk, scrape off the outside skin, wash them, tie them in bunches containing six to eight each, and boil, if possible, with the heads standing just out of the water, as the rising steam will cook them sufficiently. If covered with water the heads are cooked before the root ends. When tender, plunge them into cold water, drain, arrange them on a side dish, pour over them an oil and vinegar dressing, and serve. Breakfast Salad
Salad for breakfast is a good summer idea
Scald two ripe tomatoes; peel off the skin, and place them in ice-water; when very cold, slice them. Peel and slice very thin one small cucumber. Put four leaves of lettuce into a salad-bowl, add the tomatoes and cucumber. Cut up one spring onion; add it, and, if possible, add four or five tarragon leaves. Now add an oil and vinegar dressing and serve. It is said that you should eat some raw produce before a meal to get enzymes flowing. Why not start the day off with a salad of raw vegetables to get those healthy and necessary enzymes? Salad Recipes from the Blogs
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- ... she brings something to other's homes wherever she is an invited guest. Manners are very important to instill in our children no matter what their age. Besides bringing this Greek Pasta Salad to me, Marisa also shared her recipe with me.
Brussels Sprouts Salad
A new way to serve Brussels Sprouts!
Pick over carefully a quart of sprouts, wash well, and boil rapidly for twenty minutes (if boiled slowly they lose their color). Drain, and plunge them into cold water. Drain again, and put them into a salad-bowl. Mince one-fourth of a pound of boiled ham, arrange it neatly and evenly around the sprouts, and around this arrange a border of potato salad. Add an oil and vinegar dressing, a teaspoonful of herbs, and serve. Dandelion Salad
Tortoises like Dandelions too.
A dandelion salad is one of the healthiest of spring salads. Take two quarts of freshly gathered dandelions; wash them well; pick them over carefully; let stand in water over night, as this improves them. Drain, and dry in a napkin; place them in a salad-bowl; add two young spring onions, minced. Serve with an oil and vinegar dressing. Make sure to choose dandelion greens that have not been sprayed with any chemicals. Salad Accessories
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Egg Salad
A Different Sort of Egg Salad
Put into a salad-bowl the small crisp leaves of a head of lettuce; add four hard-boiled eggs sliced. Mince a dozen capers; sprinkle over the eggs, and add an oil and vinegar dressing of your choice.This salad would be an excellent choice for breakfast on a hot summer day. The eggs could be boiled the night before so they would be chilled by the time you are ready to use them the next day.
Remarks about Salad
Garnishing Salads
Garnishing or decorating salads presents an opportunity for displaying your artistic bent. The most deliciously blended salad will be appreciated much more if it is attractive in appearance. No exact rule can be laid down for garnishing; much depends on the artistic talent of the salad maker. Wild flowers neatly arranged with alternate tufts of green are very pretty during warm weather. During cold weather garnish with pretty designs cut from beets, turnips, radishes, celery, etc. Lenses about the Northwest Washington Theatre Group
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GreenfireWiseWoman
Jul 11, 2011 @ 11:55 am | delete
- Love salad! We are always looking for variety in our recipes. Thank you - great lens.
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poddys
Nov 23, 2010 @ 4:15 pm | delete
- I love salads. The brussels sprouts salad sounds interesting.
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skiesgreen
Jun 7, 2010 @ 11:27 pm | delete
- Ummy lens. *-*Blessed*-* and featured on Sprinkled with Stardust and on the special lens for charity awards event charity-lenses-for-summer-sunshine-giveaway
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JenOfChicago
Jun 4, 2010 @ 12:45 pm | delete
- Yum! Blessed by a squidangel
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LadyelenaUK
Jun 1, 2010 @ 8:15 pm | delete
- I found this very useful. Spring/summer - I tend to eat a lot of salad and its always nice to try something new. Thanks
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LoKackl
Jun 1, 2010 @ 5:10 pm | delete
- Yummy!! Thanks for the ideas here at the start of summer. Blessed by a SquidAngel. Good luck in the Sunshine awards contest.
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WindyWinters
May 29, 2010 @ 4:31 am | delete
- Delicious! Great salads for summer! Best Wishes to your charity in the SSA!
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prosperity66 May 27, 2010 @ 4:41 am | delete
- Hmmmmm! That salmon salad... Oh my... I'm off to buy salmon and follow your recipe!
Cross my fingers for you for SSA!
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happynutritionist May 24, 2010 @ 6:08 pm | delete
- Very nice, I LOVE salad, always have, always will:-) ~claudia
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Treasures-By-Brenda
May 24, 2010 @ 6:07 pm | delete
- Great salads, Dianne! I'd love to see a choice in your poll in which I could say a few of these salads because so many of them sound great. That is except for Cray-fish salad. They are something that I've never eaten...
Lensrolled to my best-ever garden salad, best salad spinner and to eat healty is to eat well pages. Don't forget to submit this page to Culinary Favorites!
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stargazer00
May 24, 2010 @ 7:20 pm | delete
- Done Brenda. Thanks for the suggestion!
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OhMe May 24, 2010 @ 12:31 pm | delete
- One More Time:
Stargazer's Seven Super Spectacular Salads for Squidoo's Summer Sunshine Award.
How's that!
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- I love salad but don't like seafood or fish of any kind but my husband does and he would love this Salmon Salad. These are seven super summer salad recipes for Squidoo's Summer Sunshine Award for charity. Whew! That's a mouth full. I do love the NWTG logo! I have nominated this lens and will feature it on Squidoo's Summer Sunshine Award Contest Nominees.
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Susan52
May 24, 2010 @ 7:54 am | delete
- I love a good salad. Most of these summer salads are definitely not on my usual menu, but they sound wonderful! Best of success to NWTG in the Summer Sunshine contest!
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Joan4
May 24, 2010 @ 5:25 am | delete
- Yummy! I do enjoy beautiful salads. And I did not know about cooking asparagus with the ends up. You taught me something today! Thank you! Good luck in the contest. I hope you win $99 for NWTG! I nominated this lens for the contest.
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