Cuisine: Salad Dressing

Buckwheat Crêpe with Goat Cheese, Honey and Arugula Salad

My friend Barbara told me about this restaurant called La Mercerie Café at the Guild in Soho. There is also an incredible shop inside the restaurant selling exquisite furniture and tableware. Anyway, I ordered this Buckwheat Crêpe with Goat Cheese, Honey and Arugula Salad. It actually had Spinach inside, which I didn't like so I left it out of this recipe.

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Cucumber & Radish Salad in a Yogurt Dressing

This Cucumber & Radish Salad in a Yogurt Dressing is light and refreshing. Crunchy slices of cucumbers and sharp pungent radishes and a winning combination. Radishes have many health benefits. The one that interests me most is that they contain compounds that help purge cancer-causing substances and prevent the development of tumors. The crunchy detoxifiers are thought to help protect the body against colon, kidney, intestinal, stomach and oral cancer, in particular.

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Summer Berry Chicken Salad

This Summer Berry Chicken Salad is actually a copy cat recipe from Wendy's.They only sell this for a limited time in the summer. It's absolutely delicious and rather patriotic looking. Herb-marinated grilled chicken breast topped with sweet, hand-cut strawberries and blueberries, roasted almonds, crumbly feta cheese, and tangy-sweet Raspberry Vinaigrette on a bed of spring lettuce mix. It’s bursting with fresh, summery flavors. You can easily make it at home. 

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Five-Spice Asian Chicken Salad with Chili Lime Dressing

I often eat lunch out of one of my prep bowls. This Five-Spice Chicken Asian Salad with Chili Lime Dressing was yesterday's lunch. This recipe is a copy of a salad they sell at Trader Joe's. I always have a hard time figuring out what to have for lunch.

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Hearts of Palm Salad

I happen to love hearts of palm, so when I saw this Hearts of Palm Salad, I made it immediately. You can make it a couple of hours ahead of time and keep it covered in the fridge. Heart of palm is a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees.

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Cauliflower Slaw

I recently visited my home town in Goshen, Indiana. I have a friend who has a phenomenal restaurant in town called Kelly Jae's Cafe. It's located in the old Woolworth's building, which has been beautifully restored with the original hardwood floors, brick walls, and tin ceiling. If you ever find yourself in Goshen, Indiana, you must have a meal there.

She offers an eclectic menu featuring a Spanish tapas concept with an Asian flair. Anyway, I had some of her cauliflower slaw, which I haven't been able to stop thinking about. Kelly's slaw had red peppers and red onions. My version is a bit different, using dried cranberries.

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Radicchio and Citrus Salad with Burrata

My daughter Grace made this wonderful Radicchio and Citrus Salad with Burrata for my birthday dinner. It was so fresh and and delicious. The sweetness of the citrus is in perfect balance with the bitter radicchio. Grace made up her own dressing by adding honey, orange juice, zest, and chopped mint. I am beaming with pride! My girls know how to change recipes to suit their tastes.

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Strawberry Spinach Salad with Feta & Pecans

This Strawberry Spinach Salad with Feta & Pecans is a wonderfully fresh and gorgeous salad. The sweet strawberries, salty feta, and crunchy pecans are a marriage made in heaven. This simple salad will brighten your table.

By Leslie Blythe

Caesar Salad with Pancetta

This is Ina Garten's Caesar Salad with Pancetta. It has crispy cubes of pancetta, which is an Italian bacon made of pork belly meat that is salt cured. She also adds roasted cherry tomatoes that are bursting with natural flavor.

By Leslie Blythe

The Original Hollywood Brown Derby Cobb Salad

From Hollywood’s Brown Derby restaurant and named for its owner, Robert Howard Cobb, the Cobb Salad is the original chopped salad. 

There’s some dispute about the recipe’s genesis. Was the first Cobb salad made by Cobb and theater mogul, Sid Grauman, while rummaging through the restaurant’s cooler for a late-night snack in 1939, or, by the restaurant’s executive chef Robert Kreis, who created it for the restaurant’s 1929 launch? Either way, the Cobb is one of America’s longest-standing salad favorites, inspiring dozens of different renditions. The original recipe consisted of a head of lettuce, watercress, avocado, tomatoes, cold breast of chicken, hard boiled eggs, cheese, crumbled bacon and some old-fashioned French dressing.

By Leslie Blythe