Does anyone have ideas to replace goat cheese (or any cheese really) in salads? I love goat cheese in salads but need a vegan alternative.

I used to work in NYC and would go to Salad Box every so often. They made a balsamic vinaigrette that I've tried to replicate and can't quite get it right. Does anyone have inside info? Or know what brand they used?

From what to buy, what to avoid, general tips ,etc.

I am so late to the kale party but I've started massaging it at home with some good olive oil, salt, pepper, and a splash of lemon and I am obsessed. I'm looking for salad combos that I can use to eat this every day (or as long as the fixation meal lasts). So far I've tried shredded carrots and cherry tomatoes, as well as dried cranberries and raw cashews. I don't love crumbly cheeses like feta or goat cheese, and I also don't eat chickpeas. Any recipes you love would be much appreciated!!

Hello! I’m looking for recommendations for a delicious sweet balsamic salad dressing that is not creamy. I tried a persimmon balsamic dressing once and it was so good and not creamy, looking for any recs.

OK, abit of a food safety question, please?

I was unpacking groceries the other night and my fiancé, without thinking, took the unopened bottle of Ken's dressing (re: it was NOT refrigerated in the store) and put it in the fridge by accident.

Is it ok if I take the bottle out and put it back on the room temp cabinet shelf? I would think so, since it's still factory sealed, but I wanted to know your opinions before proceeding.

Thank you!

I made this for a themed dinner party and I thought it turned out great. Here is the recipe if anyone would like to try it! I didn't take exact measurements of each ingredient, so just eyeball it and adjust to your preference.

Salad: Any greens of your choice, I used arugula and baby spinach -Pomegranate seeds -Pistachios -Roasted dates -Goat cheese -Thinly sliced fennel -A few chopped fresh mint leaves -Thinly sliced red onion (I soaked mine in water first to remove some of the pungency) Dressing: -3 tbsp pomegranate juice (I blended some of the remaining pomegranate seeds and passed it through a strainer) -2 tbsp EV olive oil -1 tbsp red wine vinegar -1 tsp honey -Pinch of salt and pepper

Does anyone have a tasty salad recipe, worthy of a birthday side dish, which has an olive oil and vinegar dressing, as well as shaved carrots, chopped cucumbers and red onions?

As we all know, salads with a variety of textures are inherently more satisfying. Tonight we made the Serious Eats ultimate wedge salad and the breadcrumbs (made from a stale end of a sourdough boule) were absolutely killer. They absolutely destroyed store-bought croutons as a crispy/crunchy element. Nuts are another story altogether, because while they can be crunchy they can also be meaty, crispy, and tender amongst many other textures.

It got me thinking. What are your favorite textural elements? I think I’m firmly team breadcrumb now, although I’m holding space for pepitas and slivered almonds too.

Morning, salad friends! Question!

Can anyone recommend a good Cesar salad dressing replacement for Marzetti Cesar... same heavy parmesean flavor, preferably same consistency, as Marzetti.... but in a bigger bottle?

My fiancé and I have been going hard into salads, and one or both of us has a Cesar salad almost every day (sometimes someone gets adventurous and has a honey mustard pretzel salad, but the other will 99% of the time revert back to Cesar).

This means that the tiny... what... 6 oz bottle maybe... will last us between 3-4 days, max. I know that's healthy because the dressing is dairy based... but eeehhh, I was hoping to get a little more life out of it with a Cesar salad at work everyday. This means that 1 bottle would be expected to last for 2-3 servings a day between lunch and dinner.

Does anyone have any reqs? I can't imagine any Cesar dressing being bad, per se, but I don't want to go buy a huge jar of Marie's, let's say, and find out it's more mayo forward or runnier than we were expecting.

Thank you!

Saw some great ideas for salads I'd never thought of before, but I didn't see any photos posted. Other than the rule images must be your own, I didn't see a ban on photos. Can anyone post their favorites?

Would love to chat about robust salads! Ie. salads that are a complete meal, which feel healthy and leave you feeling good in the body. What’s everybody into? I think Hetty McKinnon does a fabulous job of this. And recently I made Katrina Meynink’s ‘brown rice and agrodolce onions’ salad which blew my mind! Thanks in advance 😍

Edited to say thanks: I’ve posted on Reddit only a couple of times. It is just SO NICE that you guys would go out of your way to share your salads, books and combos with me. Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

So my grandma brought me a Togo box that had the dividers in it. The big part had a leafy green salad, and one of the smaller dividers had a chopped fruit mixture.

The salad was like the nicer kinds of lettuce leaves, and spinach, with tiny cucumber pieces, red onion, and cherry tomatoes. I didn't have any dressing, so I used oil and vinegar, plenty of red wine vinegar. I ate my salad and saved the fruit for a bit later.

The fruit was cut up strawberries, apples, Mandarin oranges, maybe some grapes.

But I left the fruit sitting in the same box, and it absorbed some of the vinegar flavor. (I didn't intentionally add vinegar to fruit).. And it was so good! The fruit still tasted perfect and sweet and had the slightest vinegar taste..

..AND I had accidentally got a few tiny cucumber cubes in the fruit mix! -at first I thought "oh no!" But immediately I thought "Wow! This is amazing!" -the cucumber went so well with the fruit.

So anyway, I should have added the fruit to the salad with the red wine vinegar and olive oil, and you could even add cheeses, a protein, or don't, it would be amazing either way.

I could imagine if the fruit and vinegar and cucumber could be made into a homemade dressing, it would be so nice!

I'm sure others have thought this up before, but the salad and fruit made me so happy.

In addition to this, you might can sneak tiny bits of cucumber into fruit mixes for kids that don't eat veggies, or even throw cucumber into fruit smoothies.

As the title suggests, I’m looking for a dressing I can make and add to a salad that consists of:

• Spinach leaves
• apple
• walnuts
• soft goats cheese

Preferably low calorie and low in saturated fat.

I'm preparing side salads for hubby's 60th. There will be 60ish people & 3 other salads. I make caesar salad as a meal for the 2 of us & never measure out the ingredients. I need to know in this case for purchasing.

Could someone guide me with what I need proportionately? I've been advised that a 2.5kg (5 1/2 lb) salad feeds about 10 people (I'll probably make 2 of them). How much would I need for a 2.5kg caesar salad for each of the following ingredients that I use:

• cos lettuce (romaine)
• bacon
• parmesan cheese
• croutons
• Paul Newman's caesar dressing

Looking to add something to my salad along with tuna packets

Trying to eat a salad every (other) day this year. Please send me your fave and EASY meal prep salad recipes. Would love some mason jar ideas too as I just stocked up!

would a dressing comprised of anchovies, sour cream, and rice vinegar be good? and how much of each would i need?

I'm a huge fan of pasta salad. But I'm always looking to try new recipes.

I can almost remember everything but missing the “dressing”

It had jicama, sweet potatoes, jalapeños, and I think red peppers.

It seems like it was tossed in oil and maybe vinegar.

If anyone can help I would appreciate it

I enjoy how sesame seed oil and rice vinegar taste on shaved, raw veggies for a salad. What other flavored oil and vinegar combos are great?

Friend of mine made this salad with toasted nuts (sunflower seeds, almonds, a few others). It was cabbage and topped with ramen noodles. This one looks similar but she never toasted the ramen noodles. Anyone have a similar salad I can try?

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/237732/top-ramen-salad/

My ex boss let me have it years ago & for some reason i just remembered how amazing it was but I can’t find it anywhere online!

-dark lettuce -kidney beans -some type of nut i wanna say cashew? -the dressing was sorta sweet! If anyone could help me id be so grateful 😭😭

I'm so exited to eat better this year!

Tell me your favourite salad and dressing please. I wanna make them all!!

Bonus points if you have a sushi inspired one.

I love salads. I love their versatility, health benefits, and taste. I could eat them everyday as my main meal. But last night I watched the Netflix documentary "Poisoned: The Dirty Truth about Your Food" and now am worried about E. coli and Salmonella-type food poisonings. Greens are hard to wash in a way as to actually sterilize them and when used in salads obviously they aren't cooked to a temp that will kill bacteria. How does everyone clean their fresh greens and veggies in a way that will make them absolutely safe to consume? There has to be a better way than just rinsing with water.

Where I am living it's hard to get salads. So tried the salads during my travels and hope to include them in my daily routine. Need some suggestions for easy salads or places I can find easy recipes.

Any suggestions on homemade salad dressing?

It seems like a lot of salad spinners don’t have a simple method to just take off the spinning mechanism to clean the inside of it. Does anyone know any product that has a simple solution to take it off?

i enjoy the other ingredients but need some ideas for another dressing or salad variation. thx. 🤘

I've been on a mission to find or make a Ranch dressing as good as those in some restaurants. I have tried just about every brand of store-bought dressing, both shelf-stable (even the buttermilk versions don't compare) and refrigerated (don't like Panera, won't buy Chick-fil-A, etc.)

I've tried a couple of times to make it from scratch - with buttermilk, sour cream, with/without mayo - and a variety of seasonings. I still can't get it just right, and I'm tired of wasting ingredients.

I even tried emailing a restaurant directly to ask for their recipe (a small place in Santa Fe that had the best Ranch I've ever had), but no response.

Do you have a homemade recipe that you love?

EDIT: Thanks for all the great suggestions! I'm going to experiment more and hopefully find the "right" recipe.