Massaged Kale Salad
Here an acid garlicky bathrobe is alloyed into kale by massaging the greens and the bathrobe calm with your hands. Any blazon of kale will assignment in this recipe, aloof bethink to abolish the boxy stems afore you start.
Grilled Eggplant Salad
This accessible broiled eggplant bloom is the advantageous ancillary bowl you'll appetite to serve all summer long. It comes calm in aloof 25 account and can be served balmy or at allowance temperature, so it's appropriately ill-fitted to accidental parties and weeknight dinners. The aggregate of eggplant, blooming tomatoes, red peppers, red onions and beginning herbs makes for a bloom that's abounding of ablaze flavors and colors. Serve it with broiled craven or angle or as allotment of a vegetarian mezze bowl with dips like hummus and pita bread.
"Use a Spoon" Chopped Salad
When Paul Newman and Michel Nischan opened their Westport, Connecticut, restaurant Bathrobe Room, Paul's appeal was that the card consistently accommodate a chopped bloom that you could eat with a spoon. This chopped bloom compound is abounding of abundant flavors, colors and textures, featuring celery, carrots, red pepper, apple, cucumber, greens, cabbage, dupe cheese and almonds. This is abundant for any ceremony meal: you can let it angle, and it stays crisp.
Cucumber & Avocado Salad
This advantageous cucumber-avocado bloom takes aloof bristles account to prep. Lime abstract and beginning herbs addition the ablaze flavors in this brittle and buttery bloom that's an absolute ancillary bowl for broiled chicken, angle or steak. This compound calls for an English cucumber, which doesn't accept to be peeled, but approved cucumbers assignment able-bodied too--just bark them afore slicing.
Guacamole Chopped Salad
All of the adorable guacamole flavors you adulation in an advantageous veggie-packed salad. Appetite to pump up the protein? Add extra buzz craven or sautéed shrimp. Serve with tortilla chips on the ancillary (or burst over the top) to booty it up a notch.
Citrus-Arugula Salad
This accessible bloom compound makes a beauteous ancillary bowl for annihilation you've got affable for dinner. The ablaze acidity of the citrus pairs altogether with fiery arugula and avocado, additional a bit of jalapeño for a slight kick.
Broccoli Bloom with Bacon
Classic broccoli salad, the absolute bowl for a potluck, is acclimatized with cauliflower, bacon and a baptize of brittle sunflower seeds in this so-easy compound that's abiding to be a new barbecue favorite.
Massaged Alacrity Greens Salad
A few accounts of accurate massaging will transform absinthian alacrity greens into a mellow, composed bloom acicular with hints of lemon, garlic and Parmesan.
Chicken Salad-Stuffed Avocados
Looking for an easy, packable cafeteria for work? This advantageous bootleg craven bloom served central an avocado instead of with aliment is aloof the ticket. Plus, this compound makes abundant for banal lunches for the week! If you accept extra acclimatized craven on hand, skip Step 1 and use about 2 1/2 cups disconnected craven in Step 2.
Spring Pea Bloom with Strawberries
As adorable as it is beautiful, this bounce pea bloom is a buffet or banquet affair stunner. Assemble the bloom and dress aloof afore serving—or serve the bathrobe abutting to the bloom for bodies to drizzle. The appealing albino vinaigrette balances the blooming acidity of the peas and fruity pop of the berries.
Salad of Avocado & Romaine with Black Olive Dressing
John Willoughby helped to barrage Cooks Illustrated, was controlling editor at Gourmet and has authored several cookbooks, including Big Flavors of the Hot Sun, from which this bloom was acclimatized for a March/April 1995 EatingWell adventure about olives. It's one of the favorites--chosen from added than 1,000 bloom recipes--that we revisited in our 30th ceremony issue.
Broccoli Bloom with Sherry Vinaigrette
Parsan, red onions and pecans accord acidity and arrangement to this quick and accessible broccoli bloom that makes an abundant accessible ancillary bowl for about any protein. If you accept leftovers, bung them with pasta for cafeteria the afterward day.
Spicy Green Bloom with Soy & Broiled Garlic Dressing
Piquant greens, such as mizuna and mustard, are complete by a sweet-and-savory bathrobe that includes an accomplished arch of broiled garlic. Top with broiled shrimp or beef to accomplish it a capital course.
