Salads

This easy roasted fall veggie salad is chock full of fresh autumn produce. Serve as a side, or add a protein and serve it for lunch.

Roasted acorn squash and fig salad is a delicious fall starter or side dish. Serve as a first course at Thanksgiving, or serve alongside pork for a weeknight meal.

Farmers' Market Chicken Pasta Salad is an easy, delicious summer dinner. It's loaded with all kinds of fresh veggies (and a fruit) easily found at your local farmers market. Welcome to Farmers Market Week! I participated last year, and was excited to participate again this year. This week, many bloggers will share recipes using ingredients …

Garden pasta salad combines pasta with fresh garden vegetables, basil, and mozzarella cheese. Serve as a side salad, or add chicken or shrimp to make it a main dish.

Can dinner be both easy AND healthy? Yes! Serve lemon shrimp over a salad of corn, red onion and basil with a red wine vinaigrette.

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #SweeterTogether #CollectiveBias Bring your family together this summer over this Italian panzanella salad with Italian tomato vinaigrette.

Lighter Caesar salad is delicious, and light on the calories. This version replaces most of the oil and the egg yolks in the dressing with fat-free Greek yogurt, making it creamy, but healthier.

Tomato tortellini salad is my new favorite summer dinner! It combines lots of fresh, healthy vegetables, and comes together in under 30 minutes! 

Greek Panzanella Salad is a perfect summer weeknight meal that combines tomato, red onion, cucumber, chicken and toasted bread with a homemade vinaigrette.

This versatile pasta salad combines roasted asparagus and tomatoes with penne and spinach, dressed in a low-calorie lemon vinaigrette. Serve as a side, or add grilled pork or chicken for a healthy lunch or light dinner. 

This is a sponsored post on behalf of OXO. All opinions are my own. Sweet potato noodle salad swaps spiralized sweet potatos for pasta, served over spinach and apples with a delicious and tangy warm sage-brown-butter dressing. As always, I'm a little behind in trying the latest trends. "Spiralizing" has been around for at least …

When the temperature rises, you need a meal that is filling, flavorful, and doesn't heat up your kitchen. This salad combines healthy veggies, beans, and a spicy dressing — no cooking required! We've been having crazy heat waves in Philadelphia this summer. The most recent one lasted for 8 days! High heat and high humidity …

Take salad from a side dish to the main dish! Baby spinach is topped with sauteed chicken, roasted butternut squash, and a warm bacon-maple vinaigrette. You won't believe that this gourmet salad can be ready in just under 30 minutes! One of my favorite memories growing up was sitting down to a meal together with …

Antipasti pasta salad — say that three times fast. Antipasti is typically thought of as a first course, or even an hors d'oeuvre, since the translation means "before the meal." It's normally served before the pasta course. Combing antipasti and pasta in this salad version could be served as a first course, but it could …

It's recipe swap time, hosted by A Taste of Home Cooking! If you've noticed a decrease in swap posts, it's because our swaps have dropped to once a month instead of once every two weeks. Our swap theme for August was Summer Salads. I was intrigued when I received my assigned recipe. I had never …

Have you ever seen these in a grocery store and wondered what they were? They're figs. What are figs? They're a fruit. Not the prettiest or most appetizing-looking fruit. But, remember that "don't judge a book by its cover" lesson you learned (or were supposed to learn) as a child? The only time I'd ever …

In an effort to eat more fruits and veggies, I've realized that I need to make COMPLETE meal plans. In the past, I've sought out dinner recipes, and that's pretty much it. Sometimes those dinner recipes are complete meals, but more often, it's just a protein. And about five minutes before the protein is ready, …