Heirloom Tomato Salad with Hard-Cooked Eggs MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 20 minutes This straightforward chopped salad with tomato wedges is wonderfully complex, especially if you use a mixture of heirloom tomatoes at the peak of summer. Hard-cooked eggs add a nice chew...
Grilled Shiitake or Portobello Salad with Soy Vinaigrette MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 40 minutes, including heating the grill This salad is as simple as can be. You might double the number of mushrooms (a mix is nice) and serve it as a main course. 8 large or 16 small...
Greens with Fruit, Cheese, and Nuts MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 20 to 30 minutes The classic combination here, a restaurant standard from the nineties, is pears, Gorgonzola, and walnuts. But all sorts of trios are possible, ranging from an all-American mix of apples,...
Green Salad with Caramelized Onion-Thyme Dressing MAKES: 4 servings TIME: About 1 hour The sweetness of the slow-cooked onions, accentuated by a bit of honey and offset by the perfumed bitterness of thyme and olives, perfectly complements a mound of bitter greens. The...
Five-Layer Avocado Salad MAKES: 4 to 6 servings TIME: 20 minutes Serve this festive salad family style, as part of a Mexican buffet, with Naked Tamales with Chile Cheese Filling, or as the centerpiece of a light lunch. Whenever you serve it, you’ll enjoy the...
Endive and Roquefort Salad MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 15 minutes I like a salad you can eat with your fingers, and this is a beaut because the endive serves as both an ingredient and a spoon (you can even eat it standing up). Each of the major ingredients can be swapped...
Eggplant Salad with Miso MAKES: 4 servings TIME: About 30 minutes The typical way to prepare this traditional Japanese salad is to boil the eggplant, and I give directions for doing it that way. But if you have the time and energy, sautГ© the cubes in a little peanut...
Cucumber Salad with Soy and Ginger MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 30 minutes, largely unattended This is likely different from most cucumber salads you’ve ever tasted, but nondairy, easy, and delicious. 1 to 11/2 pounds (about 3 medium) cucumbers Salt and freshly ground...
Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream or Yogurt MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 30 minutes, largely unattended If you use real garden cucumbers or the long, skinny “European” or “English” cucumbers, you can skip the salting (you may even be able to skip the seeding). But...
Corn Salad MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 30 minutes Commercial corn salads and salsas are usually made with frozen corn. I’m not against frozen, but if corn is going to be the star, you gotta go fresh. Here you have three choices for preparing the corn: If it’s just...
