Classic French Carrot Salad

This carrot salad is everywhere in France. You can find carottes râpées at cafes, supermarkets, and little bistros. It goes with almost anything, but especially roast chicken or rice. I love that I can make a batch at the beginning of the week, and it just seems to get better as the week goes on….

Quinoa Salad with Honey Pomegranate Vinaigrette

This salad is my new obsession. It is the ultimate lunch salad. It has fiber out the wazoo, crunchy hazelnuts, salty feta, juicy pomegranate arils, and it just gets better in the fridge over the week. I will be eating this salad for the rest of my life. The dressing is tangy and sweet and…

Watermelon Basil Salad

Treat yourself to a perfectly refreshing summer salad! This salad is the perfect way to use up the other half of a large watermelon you didn’t eat. We also seem to have a little bit left over in the fridge after cracking open a melon. I love a savory application of watermelon, and the vinegar,…

Build Your Own Nicoise Salad

Nicoise Salad is one of the first composed salads I learned how to make. I had never even tasted tuna steak before, and it blew my mind. The only exposure I had had thus far with tuna was my mom’s tuna salad chock full of diced apple and boiled egg. I didn’t realize it could…

Preschool Salads: tips and tricks

Serving salad to tiny people can seem impossible, even wasteful. I do concede that a large pile of raw veggies is not the most appealing meal to kids, or me, for that matter. Below are some tips and tricks to make it more fun and tasty for the little people in your life. Deconstruct A…

Tex-Mex Summer Shrimp Salad

This recipe combines so many things I love to eat. Shrimp, avocados, yummy black beans, and it helps me eat a giant pile of field greens..and like it. Growing up in southeast Texas on the gulf coast taught me two things. The first is a love of fresh gulf shrimp. It is my favorite protein…