Salads

Mesclun Mix

Mesclun Mix © Randal Oulton Mesclun Mix is not one single type of kind of salad green, but rather, as the name states, a mix. The contents of the mix will vary. It often contains leaves such as baby spinach, curly endive, dandelion, lamb’s lettuce, mizuna, purslane, red chicory, red oak leaf lettuce, rocket, and…

Mushroom and Blue Cheese Salad

This is a great winter or fall salad because the mushrooms and blue cheese are hearty flavours, and the salad is served with a warm topping on it.

Pasta for Salads

Pasta chosen for salads usually has shapes that are easily managed by forks, as opposed to long, twiddly strands.It needs to be cooked quite al dente if the salad is to have mouth and texture appeal; there is little in life worse than a pasta salad with mooshy pasta in it. Related entries

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Salad Apples

Any apple can be used in a salad, but apples termed “salad apples” are particularly suited for that use. They will be sweet, crisp and, most importantly, slow to brown in the air once cut. The most famous salad that uses apples might be a Waldorf Salad. Here is our list of some apples that…

Salad Cream

Salad Cream is a pour-able, pale yellow boiled dressing sauce with a creamy consistency. It’s a close cousin to Miracle Whip, though it’s not thick like either Miracle Whip or Mayonnaise. Rather, it has the thickness of a very thick pouring cream or of bottled salad dressings such as Ranch. It’s thick enough that sometimes…

Salad Dressing Base

This recipe provides a fat-free, sugar-free and sodium-free base for salad dressings that you use to replace oil in salad dressing recipes. It’s reminiscent of pre World War Two salad dressings, before the heavy marketing of oils for salad dressings began.

Salad Recipes

Salads come in many forms — composed, bound or simply tossed — and can be refreshing on a hot summer’s day, or warming in the dead of winter. While many salads are now improvised by opening a bag of salad greens and removing the top from a bottle of salad dressing, there are set recipes for many classic salads. We have included some of them here.