The Store-Bought Potato Salad That Should Never Make It To Your Cookout

Tatiana Volgutova/Getty Images Potato salads are the side dish that actually have main dish energy. A creamy, tangy, fresh, and perfectly flavorful potato salad is the standard and anything that misses the mark might as well be scraped off the plate for fear of spoiling the meal. Whether potato salad is served alongside burgers or sandwiches or tucked neatly onto your plate with the rest of your go-to barbecue line-up, it’s one of those side dishes that will always be a welcomed (read, highly requested) addition to the dinner table. When Chowhound … Read more

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Prawn Salad with Sicilian Ricotta Salata

Discover our prawn and ricotta salata salad recipe, a fresh dish that can be served as a side or main course. The Ricotta salata cheese pairs very well with all the ingredients. What is Ricotta Salata? It is a typical seasoned Ricotta from Sicily with a piquant flavour mostly used grated over pasta as per sicilian-pasta-alla-norma   Serves 2-3, Preparation 15 minutes, Cooking 10 minutes Fresh or frozen prawns, approx. 500 g Italian Ricotta Salata, to taste Fennel leaves, a small bunch White Dry Wine, half a glass About 10 mixed cherry tomatoes, halved … Read more

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Pesto Pasta Salad – Leels Cooks

  A super simple and delicious pasta salad you can enjoy for dinner or quickly throw together for a potluck/family meal. This can be as low effort as you want it to be or you can make the extra effort to make your own pesto, it will be delicious, and impressive, regardless! What you need: 2 cups small pasta, any shape will do! 1 cup pesto, fresh is best but jarred is fine too 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated 1/2 pint sliced cherry or grape tomato 1/4 cup thinly sliced shallot 2-3 tbsp fresh parsley, minced 4 leaves of fresh … Read more

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Vietnamese Salad Rolls (Gỏi cuốn) – Leels Cooks

Time for a fresh, fast and healthy recipe! Another one of my recent go-tos has been Vietnamese salad rolls. You can put whatever you want into them really, although the traditional ingredients are best (in my ever so humble opinion). They come together quickly, are low calorie and satisfying! The perfect appetizer or small summer meal. What you need : Vietnamese rice paper wraps lettuce fresh herbs like cilantro, green onion, Thai basil or even mint. julienned veg like carrot, cucumber, bean sprouts protein if you wish, chicken, pork, prawns, leftovers etc. vermicelli rice noodles whatever you damn well like … Read more

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Baby Red Potato Salad – Leels Cooks

A super simple and fresh potato salad. No mayo so you can easily take this one out for picnics or potlucks without having to worry! These are not roasted because I like the clean, gentle, sweet taste of the potato to come through, suitable to go along with fresh summer dishes or grilled meats. It also gets better the longer you let it chill, so enjoy this one for a few days (if you can resist!) These even make weirdly delicious roasted potato or hashbrowns for breakfast a few days later if you’re “over” potato salad by then. Yum! What … Read more

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Sumac Is The Citrus Replacement Your Fruit Salad Needs

Ali Majdfar/Getty Images Browse the spices at a well-stocked store or market, and the selection can feel overwhelming. It’s easy to purchase what’s necessary for a recipe, but discovering new spice uses feels much tricker. For an easy-to-use and overlooked spice for your next fruit salad, turn to sumac. Popular in Middle Eastern cooking, the spice is made from dried and ground sumac berries and packs a rich tangy, fruity, and slightly sweet flavor that’s reminiscent of citrus. It’s frequently used in conjunction with other spices, such as in Za’atar mix. However, … Read more

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Health Salad Recipe – Food in Jars

This recipe for Health Salad is my own entry in this month’s Community Canning Challenge. We are focusing on ways to preserve brassicas and root vegetables this month. For more information on the challenge, click here. To chat with other participants about what we’ve all made, you can either subscribe to my Substack (all challenge related posts are free) or join us on the Food in Jars community group on Facebook. Now, on to the recipe! Health salad is essentially a quick pickled sweet and sour cabbage dish and it is one of the foundational dishes of east coast deli … Read more

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Watermelon, Mint, and Feta Salad – Leels Cooks

I LOVE watermelon. I can eat it endlessly, and it’s the most delicious and refreshing thing. This is a riff on a salad my mom likes to make, the most important bits are really some sort of green, ripe sweet watermelon and feta. You can take it in any direction you like, I serve mine with a lemon vinaigrette but a balsamic reduction, red wine or raspberry dressing also go very well! It’s the best thing during this summer heat! What you need: 2 cups ripe watermelon, cubed 3-4 cups arugula 1 mini cucumber sliced (about 1 cup) 1 small … Read more

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Roasted Squash and Kale Salad – Leels Cooks

Are you into squash? I don’t eat enough of it but it’s delicious when made right. I kind of default to putting cinnamon/brown sugar/cayenne on it most of the time but there’s just something about the mix of spice and sweetness. Kale can be a tough customer, and I think a lot of people don’t realize you have to “massage” kale in order to eat it raw. It’s a strong, fibrous plant, and massaging it breaks down its cell walls somewhat making it nicer to eat and easier to digest! There are a million iterations of this salad, commonly served … Read more

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Niçoise Salad with Albacore Tuna

As with everything French, this salad is sophisticated simplicity. It is such a versatile salad, in terms of what you can pair it with – crumbed fish, grilled or pan-fried fish, prawns, squid. Be sure to use local, sustainable, wild caught seafood. WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT THIS SALAD – Flavourful & Versatile – Made with pantry staples – Very quick to make. Niçoise Salad with Albacore Tuna As with everything French, this salad is sophisticated simplicity. It is such a versatile salad, in terms of what you can pair it with – crumbed fish, grilled or pan-fried fish, prawns, squid. … Read more

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