Salads & Dressings
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…
Chinese Marinated Celery MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 15 minutes, plus 3 hours to marinate A little something to snack on before dinner, a great side dish, or a unique addition to a picnic spread. Ten times better than you could imagine. Try it with carrots too. 1 pound…
Cherry Tomato Salad with Soy Sauce MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 15 to 30 minutes The combination of soy sauce and tomatoes is fantastic, and because cherry and grape tomatoes are among the few supermarket fruits that are actually worth eating in winter, this dish can help…
Celery Remoulade MAKES: 4 to 6 servings TIME: 20 minutes The basis for this salad is the rГ©moulade dressing of tangy, mustardy, homemade mayonnaise, one that can make practically anything taste good. The classic French-bistro preparation is for celery root, but…
Cauliflower Salad with Olives and Bread Crumbs MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 45 minutes, including cooking the cauliflower Bread crumbs give this crunchy dish, which is common in southern Italy, enough body to stand on its own; I like to serve it family style, passing more…
