Recipes for Salads

Arugula Corn Salad with Bacon

This is a salad of bold flavors, but somehow they all manage to work together well. Sweet corn tossed with peppery arugula, bacon, onion, cumin, and wine vinegar to balance the sweet corn, and you have stimulated all the major...

Salmon Macaroni Salad

I distinctly remember the tall cans of dark pink salmon that used to be in our pantry when I was a kid. Although we could any time open a can of tuna or sardines and eat to our hearts content...

Spinach and Orzo Salad

"Needs more cheese." "Needs more vinegar." "Needs fewer olives." "You could add more spinach." My parents love it when I cook for them, especially when it's a new recipe and they get to be the taste testers. They happily put...

Blueberry Peach Fruit Salad with Thyme

Please welcome Garrett McCord of Vanilla Garlic who shares this delicious cancer-fighting fruit salad with us. ~Elise Recently my mom, Suzanne McCord, was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was surprised when I heard the news, my mother is in her...

Cucumber Salad with Mint and Feta

When the hot weather hits, nothing is more cooling than a cucumber salad. Inspired by a fabulous cucumber salad shared with a friend at the Sea Salt restaurant in Berkeley, I canvassed my neighborhood grocers for some delicate Persian cucumbers...