The 12th of December is Ambrosia Day. Ambrosia is a very popular salad at this time of year because it looks so festive.
Salads
Anchovy and Caper Salad Dressing
This is a robust salad dressing with sharp, strong, savoury tastes. It’s particularly good with salads made out of milder-tasting items such as pasta, potatoes, beans, etc.
Bacon and Egg Salad Recipe
This is a composed salad; arrange it on a platter and supply spoons for people to use in serving themselves. Nice served with a good crusty bread.
Chirashi Sushi
Chirashi Sushi is more like a rice salad. A scoop of sushi rice is put in a bowl, and the sushi toppings are sprinkled on top. Usually, nine different toppings are used, as nine is a lucky number in Japan. In restaurants, it is served in individual bowls. In homes, it is served in a…
Corn & Tomato Salad Recipe
This is a perfect summer salad: very colourful, refreshing, and easy to throw together. It’s great as a side to barbequed meats, a cheese and bread dinner, etc.
Creamy Anchovy, Dijon and Caper Salad Dressing
This is a tangy, savoury, thick dressing. It is oil and sodium free, so you can enjoy your salads guilt-free.
Creamy Bean Salad
This is a classic salad from the days of potluck picnics with a tableful of summer salads to choose from. This salad is a man-pleaser, with its combination of beans, pickle, egg and cheese.
Creamy Coleslaw Dressing
This recipe has all the classic sweet and tangy taste that you expect from a coleslaw dressing, with a fraction of the calories. With this dressing, you can turn your slaws back into a food that truly is healthy.
Creamy Marinated Cauliflower Salad
This cauliflower salad is a great make-ahead addition to any summer salad selection or a great snack or meal add-on to have to hand in the fridge week-long.
Crispy Tofu and Black Sesame Seed Shirataki Noodle Salad
Serve this noodle salad chilled or at room temperature as a side salad, or in more generous portions as a main noodle dish, with a slice or two of avocado and a few shrimp perhaps on the side for a meal.
Dijon Salad Dressing Recipe
You always have a dressing on hand within minutes if you have these simple ingredients.
Dilled Bean and Pepper Salad
This bean salad has a refreshing tangy bite to it for appetites wilting in the summer heat. It’s easy to make ahead, and great to keep in the fridge to reach for as a quick side salad to complete a meal.
Eastern Carolina Coleslaw Recipe
This is a typical salad made to accompany barbeque in the eastern Carolinas area of America. More than that, it’s a good old-fashioned, sweet and sour creamy coleslaw that will have you smacking your lips in satisfaction.
Eggy Potato Salad
This is just a good ole-time classic potato salad, the kind you used to see everywhere at church suppers and picnics, with lots of satisfying eggy taste. One forkful will bring memories flooding back.
Fennel, Watercress & Walnut Salad
If you’re jaded and think you are bored of fresh salads, try this. It’s got every flavour and texture happening.
Gelled Tomato, Basil and Raspberry Vinaigrette Salad
This is a wonderful chilled salad to go with meat dishes such as pork or beef, or as part of a summer salad or barbeque plate. It tastes only slightly sweet, and is like a retro version of tomatoes and basil with a raspberry vinaigrette.
Grilled Eggplant and Feta Salad
This salad looks as fantastic as it tastes; just looking at it, with the grilled veg, hummous, pine nuts, olive oil — makes you think of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Grilled Eggplant with Parmesan
Thin strips of eggplant brush with olive oil, grilled till crisp, then garnished with grated parmesan cheese. Many people say they hate eggplant, but that this is the only eggplant dish they will eat.
Grilled Halloumi Cheese & Spinach Salad with Tapenade
Halloumi is that miracle cheese that doesn’t melt when you heat it. This salad takes thick slices of that cheese, fries them up till golden brown, and serves them with a warmed tomato, lemon and olive sauce on top of spinach leaves.
Insalata di Rinforzo
This healthy pickled vegetable salad is more like an antipasto. It’s traditional in Italy on Christmas Eve, but it’s also made throughout the year and it makes a great summer salad.
Ketchup Coleslaw Recipe
This is coleslaw as made in the Piedmont area of North Carolina for barbeques, where it is referred to variously as BBQ slaw, Red Slaw, Red Coleslaw, Barbecued Coleslaw, etc. The ketchup gives the salad a dusty pink hue.
Lemon & Oil Dressing Recipe
Because this dressing omits vinegar, you’ll find that salad greens with it on last far longer.
Lemon and Anchovy Dressing Recipe
This is a creamy dressing with a very light lemony taste and texture — very refreshing in the summer. And it’s also incredibly light on your waist line, coming in at just 26 calories per tablespoon.
Mayonnaise (sugar free) Recipe
Just be careful not to overwork the mayonnaise in the blender.