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Spicy sweet tart Thai Salad

Spicy Sweet Tart Thai Salad (or wrap!)

Spicy sweet tart Thai Salad
Oooo yeah – spicy, sweet, tart, Thai salad sorcery!

This is my take on a NOT so classic Thai favorite. Sweet, salty, spicy, earthy and tart flavors all harmonize into a sort of funky perfection in this restaurant inspired main dish salad. Lots of big bold flavors and textures going on all over the place here, I can tell you what. But wait! If you want to streamline this whole situation, and make things EVEN easier (yes, even easier than a SALAD) there’s the whole lettuce wrap angle to explore. Lots of crunch, lots of sweet, lots of spicy, lots of salty…lots of napkins (have you ever navigated a lettuce wrap? Don’t do it in a white shirt is all I’m saying 😏).Spicy sweet tart Thai Salad

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Grilled Corn on the Cob Salad

Grilled Corn On The Cob Salad

Grilled Fresh Corn Salad

This is the perfect summer salad for so many reasons.

  • First off, the star of this show is fresh corn on the cob which just happens to be available right now and is only about the best thing EVER.
  • Second, you have to do a little grilling for this, and what is summer without a little grilling?
  • Third, if you have any pot-luck, picnic type outdoorsy soirées to attend, show up with this and you will be very popular….even more popular then you already are, if THAT’S even possible.
  • Fourth (this is my favorite), sometimes it’s just not practical to be eating corn on – the – COB. Drippy, buttery, all up in your teeth? Um, delicious, yes, but no, not always the best look, amirite?
  • Last but not least (okay now, this is really my favorite) this is just so, so seriously good.
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Simple Summer Quinoa Salad

Simple Summer Quinoa Salad

Simple Summer Quinoa Salad

Summertiiiiiiime, and I’m sweaty and LAAAY-ZEE……

Bugs are bitin’……..and humiditys’ hiiiiiigh.

Still I’m hungry……and I gotta make DIN-ner,

this one is a winner, eas-y as piieeee.

(OMG, that was horrible, I must be suffering from heat stroke) 😬

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Super D-Raw Cauliflower Salad

Super D-Raw Cauliflower Salad

Super D-Raw Cauliflower Salad

D is for DETOX . . . but mostly plain old D-ELICIOUS.

Holy mother of munch-worthy-ness, I am insanely obsessed with this salad right now. I want to eat it every day of the week. I want to feed it to everyone I know. I want this to be the official salad that shows up at every pot luck and BBQ that you (or I) attend any time of the year from this day forward.

FOREVER.

Oh, and it will I tell you – because it is so stinkin’ easy, and EVERYBODY will love it. No lie.

AND it’s wildly good for you! I can’t even stand it….too many wins.

Is that even possible?

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Roasted Cauliflower and Chickpea Salad

Roasted Cauliflower Chickpea Salad

Roasted Cauliflower and Chickpea Salad

Super substantial, slightly exotic and even a little unusual, this salad is truly perfect.

( Kind of like YOU, right? I know . . . ME too! )

Roasted cauliflower chickpea perfection……this hefty, so much clout you can serve it up and call it a meal – salad’s salad has got it all. Believe me when I tell you;

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Cucumber Salad with Smashed Garlic and Ginger

Cucumber Salad with Smashed Garlic and Ginger

Cucumber Salad with Smashed Garlic and Ginger

Back in the day when I first discovered sushi (that epicurean wonder of the world), you would find me (feeling very internationally cultured), piling a mountain of pickled ginger (aka: gari) up all over my (fancy and adventurous) California roll; dipping it into a pool of soy sauce (carefully combined with a dab of that pale green wasabi paste…no lumps allowed!!), and then shoving the whole thing ever so delicately into my face. Mmmphhfffffffp.

Hopefully I have learned a few things about proper sushi etiquette since then and one of my most obvious faux pas of the past (you already know … I know you do) was the fact that I was seriously abusing the gari! Like…wait, this is meant to be a palate cleanser? As in, between bites of sushi…not ON TOP of? Seriously?

Dang. I sure don’t want to offend anyone (or embarrass myself for that matter) but I really do like that stuff. Now that I know better I can’t bring myself to treat it like it’s ketchup – at least not in public. Doesn’t mean I don’t still want to.

So…If your favorite thing about going out for sushi is nibbling on that crazy, pungency packing pickled ginger that comes in a pretty pink pile on the plate, then this clean and crunchy mix of taste-bud tingling happiness is for you.

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Raw & Ready Chopped Salad

Raw and Ready Chopped Salad

Raw and Ready CHopped Salad

Seems kind of redundant to include the word raw in the name of a salad. I mean, isn’t the definition of a salad, you know….lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, dressing, what-have-you…a culinary state of perpetual raw-ness?

As in: uncooked…..au naturel…..untouched by any source of heat………?

Ha! Sure, Bunny. You know as well as I do that any sort of salad is a good one (the notable exception being anything congealed together by Jello, yuk) but really, what defines a salad? Is it just any old conglomeration of random ingredients that aren’t called soup or dessert or a casserole; like this (Spicy Steak Salad with quinoa and black beans), or this (Roasted Broccoli and white bean salad)? Does it count as salad if it’s mostly cooked?

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Orange and avocado salad with spicy honey broiled shrimp

Orange and Avocado Salad with Spicy Honey Broiled Shrimp

Avocado and Orange Salad with Spicy Honey Broiled Shrimp

Have you ever pulled out an orange (at work, perhaps?) and asked anyone if they would like a piece? Chances are you won’t get much response. Hey, you were just trying to be polite, right? Fine, good, more for you, or so you might think; let me tell you the minute you dig your thumb into that rind and peel it back and that first whiff of sunshine scented diffusion sprays through the air – Oh yeah! Noses perk right up and heads pop over and next thing you know,

you could use another orange. Hmmm.

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Marinated Mushroom veggie Salad

Marinated Mushroom Veggie Salad

Marinated Mushroom veggie Salad

I don’t know about you, but I can almost actually feel my vitamin D levels going up….just by looking at this bright and beautiful bowl of bodily benevolent bounty.

Earthy mushrooms, juicy grape tomatoes, sweet red bell pepper and crunchy cubed zucchini come together in raw and ready solidarity, held up (and held together) by a gutsy, garlicky, feta-cheese-a-fied marinade/dressing.

No sissy pants of a side dish; this bodacious babe brings the goods when it comes to a super delicious, sinfully simple salad.

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