Pear Salad with Walnuts and Feta. Here is a nice light dinner to give you a break from all those calorie laden heavy fall dishes.
The produce aisles at the supermarket are filled with pears. They are in season and best of all, on sale. For this simple salad, I just used bagged spring mix greens, roasted walnuts, fresh pears and feta cheese. I have always loved pears, but earlier in my life, I didn’t realize how versatile they actually were. When I was a kid, my grandmother had a large pear tree in her backyard that produced more pears than our family and our neighborhood could eat. Pear Salad with Walnuts and Feta Recipe Ingredients 1 bag spring mix salad 2 pears, cored and thinly sliced 1/4 cup roasted walnuts 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 3 tablespoons olive oil freshly cracked pepper Method 1.
Apple Pear Gorgonzola Salad. This week, I have been in the mood for light suppers like this salad.
I have finally been able to get back in the gym this week after 3 weeks of not being able to go because of skiing injuries. I’ve dropped 4 pounds in 4 days, and although I know most has been water weight, I am hopeful to be down 16 more pounds before swimsuit season hits. One of my New Year’s resolutions was to take my fitness a little more seriously this year. My goal is to do a 5k 6 days a week, plus regular weight training 2 or 3 times a week. Buffalo Chicken Salad. I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t ready to be done with all those delicious spicy game day foods, like buffalo chicken wings.
The problem is, even though I love spicy chicken wings more than anything, all that fatty chicken skin is not good for my hips. That’s when I remembered I can use boneless skinless chicken breasts, and make a buffalo chicken salad with all the same delicious flavors but without all the fat and calories. This salad has carrots, celery tomatoes, and crumbled blue cheese over fresh romaine lettuce.
For the wing sauce I used only hot sauce. Most recipes add butter to hot sauce to make a wing sauce, but to save on calories, I left out the butter. Sante Fe Chicken Salad. Classic Cobb Salad with Red Wine Lemon Vinaigrette. Classic Cobb Salad with Red Wine Lemon Vinaigrette Classic cobb salad is one of those perfect older salad recipes that is often forgotten.
This salad is credited for being invented in the 1930s at the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant. It later became their signature dish. It’s a great filling main dish salad full of bacon, eggs, cheese and chicken. For my recipe, I added lemon in the dressing to give it a brighter flavor. Italian Salad and Fresh Basil Vinaigrette. At every Italian restaurant I’ve ever been too, I always order the dinner salad.
I always hope for something better, something with quality ingredients, something exciting. Time after time I am majorly disappointed, so I have just given up. From the bottled drab dressing, to the 2 pathetic lonely olives lost in a sea of iceberg lettuce, they just don’t cut it for me. So instead of traveling to Italy or New York City every time I want a good Italian salad, I have taken matters in my own hands, and started making my Italian salads at home. I can add as many Kalamata olives and sweet and hot peppers as I want, and make a real fresh dressing. Fruit Salad with Honey-Lime Dressing - Easy. Fruit salad is very easy to make ... especially if you have someone else make it.
But to really make it easy, especially if you don't have any spare friends of the bride to delegate to, just omit the cantaloupe that you bought because only 3 fruits didn't seem like enough at the time while you were at the local try-n-save stocking up on picnic produce but after assembling the salad it looked like you would have plenty enough to serve everyone who showed up at the local park the same time you did instead of just the 8 people invited, so you left said cantaloupe in the very lovely sterling fruit basket given as a wedding gift earlier by said spare friend.
Strawberries are rather perishable, so this is not a recipe that can be made too far in advance. Make this salad the same day you plan to serve it. To be honest, I prefer grapes with seeds. I think the flavor gene is attached to the seed gene. Mason Jar Salads! SO....this is the beginning of week 3 on Weight Watchers and I am enjoying big success!
6lbs gone so far and I can already feel a big difference. Here's something that has saved me AND encouraged my husband (Mr. Honey Bun and Mountain Dew), and my kids (no tag names needed), to eat healthier without even realizing. So, here is our take on Mason Jar Meals, specifically Mason Jar Salads Our first step: Hunting and Gathering. Our next step: cleaning, cutting, chopping. Then, assembly. Here are a few tips: 1. 2. 3. Here are some of our recipes: Poppyseed: Layer, in this order: -poppyseed dressing -carrot shreds -green peas -pineapple -blueberries -raspberries -lettuce Asian: My Favorite Salad! I present to you my favorite salad ever! While our garden is (somehow) still producing strawberries, I’ve been eating this salad as much as I can! I’ve even eaten this for breakfast with eggs on the side.
Sometimes, I add grilled chicken and it is an entire meal. Ingredients: Spinach (or other greens) feta cheese strawberries cashews cucumber slices olive oil How To Make It.