This decidedly grown-up salad combines pleasantly bitter radicchio and treviso tossed with grainy mustard vinaigrette, chopped walnuts, sweet persimmons, and creamy blue cheese! Creamy blue cheese, sweet persimmons, and super acidic grainy mustard vinaigrette perfectly balance the bitterness of the radicchio leaves. This flavorful fall salad is the perfect complement to roasted meat or fish….
Salads
California Chopped Salad
Finely chopped kale, treviso, salami, provolone cheese tossed with a zesty pepperoncini vinaigrette! This California chopped salad is a meal all on its own or pair it with your favorite homemade pizza! This hearty salad is packed with all of my favorite California-Italian flavors; salami, provolone cheese, pepperoncini, and olives. Finely chopping all of the…
Green Goddess Salad with Basil-Tahini Dressing
This green goddess salad packs all my favorite ingredients into one bowl, green leaf lettuce, avocado, lots of fresh herbs and garlicky toasted bread! Get the recipe below! I love this creamy green goddess salad with basil-tahini dressing! It’s great on its own but also pairs perfectly with roasted chicken, fish or crispy falafel. Toasted…
Superfood Salmon Salad
This superfood salmon salad makes for a healthy and delicious lunch or dinner! This salad is the perfect meal to reset after a weekend of indulging! It’s packed with nutrient and antioxidant dense “superfoods” like wild salmon, kale, seaweed, and edamame. Superfood Salmon Salad Ingredients: Seaweed: I crush a few sheets of nori over this…
Kale and Quinoa Salad with Shiitake Mushrooms
It doesn’t get any more California than a Kale and Quinoa Salad! This kale and quinoa salad with shiitake mushrooms is packed with umami flavor! The kale and quinoa together make a hearty and filling salad, perfect for packing up for a lunch at the office. The garlic-soy dressing is a staple in my fridge…
Tomato Salad with Buttermilk-Basil Dressing
This creamy tomato salad with buttermilk-basil dressing is going to light up your summer dinner menu! If you’re curious about buttermilk-basil dressing let me just clear that up for you. It’s basically ranch for grown-ups! It’s creamy, tangy, garlicky and infused with fresh basil. It’s the perfect dressing to toss with sweet peak-season summer tomatoes!…
How to make a perfect Vinaigrette!
Making your own homemade vinaigrettes and salad dressings is a total game-changer. Check out all my tips and tricks below! Attn: You need to stop buying pre-made salad dressing! I love a good semi-homemade kitchen hack, click here to read all about my love for store-bought rotisserie chicken. There is however one thing I will…
Easy Weeknight Rotisserie Chicken Salad
This easy rotisserie chicken salad is my ultimate dinner hack on busy nights when I have no time to make dinner from scratch. I love to bring home a store-bought a rotisserie chicken and turn it into a full meal. We’re currently in that stage of the summer in Los Angeles where it’s way too…
Corn and Arugula Salad with Tomatoes and Blue Cheese
A light and fresh summer salad with corn, arugula, tomatoes, tangy vinaigrette, and creamy blue cheese! This corn and arugula salad with tomatoes and blue cheese screams summer to me! There’s nothing quite like the flavor of sweet peak-season summer corn and tomatoes. Serve this flavorful salad with your favorite grilled meat or roasted fish…
Burrata Salad with Prosciutto and Nectarines
Creamy burrata, sweet nectarines, fresh tomatoes, and salty prosciutto make for the perfect summer salad! Is it even a summertime dinner if you’re not having some variation of burrata salad? I’ve had a lot of people asking me lately, “what do I bring to a pot-luck barbecue?” Most likely other people will have the potato…
