Amber shares a few of her favorite salads today, yum! -Anne-Marie
Ever since the Crazy Sexy Cleanse I have been loving salads for lunch and dinner, too! And while I have gone back to drinking the occasional glass of wine and chocolate is back in my life – I have continued on with eating many fresh green salads.
I thought I would share a few of my favorites along with some tips for packing your salad to eat later that have worked well for me over the last few months.
Starting from the upper right and going clockwise:
1. Curly green leaf lettuce, lightly toasted almonds, baked beets and dried tart cherries. For a dressing I used a store bought Miso Ginger dressing.
2. Spinach, bean sprouts (see how I make my own) dried sweet cherries and pistachios. Lemon juice and Olive oil for a dressing.
3. Lettuce greens topped with shredded carrots, marinated artichokes, cooked lentils, toasted pine nuts and more bean sprouts. I like to have a balsamic vinaigrette with this one.
4. And my newest creation based on this recipe from my local Co-Op grocery store. It has Rainbow Chard greens, shredded carrots, toasted Pepitos (pumpkin seeds) and the most amazing dressing made from garlic Jalapeno (just a little), fresh herbs, and some oil.
When bringing my salad creations to work for lunch I like to separate out many of the ingredients to make sure it stays crispy and delicious and not soggy or wilted. Crunchy things, like nuts or croutons, are brought in a separate container that doesn’t go into the fridge. I also bring my dressing in a separate container and just drizzle a little on as I eat – I think I use less this way, but I could be wrong.
What are some of your favorite salad toppings?Â
Oh, you know what else is good? A breakfast of eggs and toast along with a salad with just Italian dressing and parmasean cheese. Yum! Goes so well together! I had this at an Italian restaurant, and loved it!
There’s a french style bakery here that offers potatoes or a green salad as the side dish. Which is what lead me to discover that salad for breakfast is so yummy! I usually use lemon juice and Olive oil for a dressing – but I’m going to try your suggestion next.
Thanks for all of your great ideas, Lynn!
Those look so good. I’m going to save these. Thank you! : )
Depending on the salad, I like to use:
Feta cheese
Pine nuts
Sunflower seeds
Almond slivers
Salami cut into thin strips. Don’t use many. : )
What a great mix. Typically I just eat Salami with crackers and it always seems too heavy. I think a few strips on a salad would be perfect!
I am not much of a salad drsg lover, many times I will just add some salsa to the top of my salad. Then I found this recipe to make and I love it.
8oz of olive oil (could use grapeseed as well),
2 1/2 oz of low sodium soy sauce, 1 TBl of ginger: either ground or use fresh minced.
Ooo, this sounds wonderful! Thank you!
Yum! I can’t wait to try that one, too!
Those look really yummy! I miss how I felt during the Crazy Sexy Cleanse! I still juice occasionally and except for chocolate once in awhile am still caffeine free though. As a bonus, I am finally pregnant after almost 11 years of trying for #2. I can’t prove that the CSC helped that happen, but I know it certainly didn’t hurt. 🙂
Yay! That’s fabulous news. Thank you so much for sharing with us.
I love salads too…with just about any ingredients! I like balsamic vinegar drizzled over the top of most salads in place of salad dressings.
My all time favourite dressing is olive oil. And I know a lot of people agree on this = )
Yes, sometimes simply is the best. Not to mention the easiest when you are trying to get out the door to go to work!
Yum! We love salads for dinner. We joke that ours are garbage bowls, we love to put everything we can find on them. Usually that includes apples, grapes, sunflower seeds, tortilla strips, croutons, carrots, onions, peppers, and avocado.
Yum, love all of those suggestions!
Yummm! How do you make the garlic jalapeno dressing? Sounds really good!
The recipe is here http://www.communityfood.coop/coop/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Raw-Deal-Salad.pdf
And it’s possible that this may not be the best salad to take to work if you have any face to face meetings after lunch. 🙂
yummm I need a salad for lunch today. I always get my dressing on the side and dip my salad in it.. I use a LOT less this way.. if I were to pour it on my salad I would use it all.