I love baby spinach salads. If you’ve read many of my salad posts, you probably noticed that I love adding fruit to green salads. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, apples, pears, and citrus have all been added to different salads. I usually use baby greens for most of these.
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Green Bean Salad With Tomatoes, Olives & Feta
Summer is the time when fresh vegetables are plentiful. Today’s salad is a marinated dish of fresh green beans, tomatoes, red onions, and olives with a sprinkling of feta. The dish should marinate at least 3 hours in a refrigerated covered dish, but I like to leave it overnight. You can double the recipe for a big bowl for a cook-out or use the recipe for your immediate family. Make it to your family’s taste; my sister loves black olives while I love green. Fresh tomatoes can be small grape tomatoes or large heirloom tomatoes chopped into bite-sized pieces.
Green beans are a very healthy vegetable and are packed with nutrients such as Vitamin A, C and K, potassium, iron, and calcium. Green beans are also low in calories, low sodium, low carb and high in fiber. Plus the Greek inspired dressing is easy and so tasty.
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Raw Corn Salad for Hot Summer Days
In a few weeks we’ll celebrate the 4th of July here in the USA. Then we have the hot months of July and August. Today’s raw corn salad is quick, wholesome, and perfect for summer. No cooking required. We’re using fresh, raw, sweet corn on the cob, tomato, onion, and fresh herbs in a vinaigrette. I love cucumber, and you can add sliced cucumber, peppers, or avocado to tailor to your taste. Feel free to adjust ingredients to please your family. (If you don’t like raw corn kernels, steam or grill the corn first.) If you want to make this next winter, I would suggest frozen corn not canned for better flavor. The rest of the ingredients I’d still want fresh vegetables and herbs.
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Easy Greek Salad
We’re in the hot days of summer, and now is the perfect time for a cold salad full of ripe veggies. Today’s recipe is easy Greek salad. Traditionally Greek Salad has English cucumber slices, ripe tomato wedges, thin slices of red onion, Kalamata olives, green pepper, and Feta with a dressing made from extra-virgin olive oil and red wine vinegar or lemon juice and seasoned with a little dried oregano. Simple, easy, and delicious, Greek salad is great for lunch or dinner. Classic Greek salad does not have lettuce, but it is a vegetable salad with all the flavor of summer.
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Spinach Strawberry Salad
I do love strawberry season here in Florida. Strawberries are a cool weather crop, and strawberry season usually runs from December through March depending on the weather and temperature. Right now Florida spring strawberries are still in most markets. By late March and early April the US markets switch back to California strawberries. If you live in an area that doesn’t have good fresh strawberries in the local stores yet, pin this recipe for the summer when you can eat fresh local spinach and strawberries.
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