Panzanella Salad

Panzanella is a wonderful vehicle for the bounty of summer vegetables, It’s also a bread lover’s best friend. Any assortment of vegetables can be combined with toasted bread cubes. Toss it all with the vinaigrette of your choice and you’ve got a hearty salad that almost eats like a meal. Slice up some grilled meat… Continue reading Panzanella Salad

Italian Salad with Pasta and Chicken

Pasta salad meets lettuce salad in an easy one dish meal. This serves two very generously. Use the cut whole wheat pasta of your choice. The same goes for the herbs you use in the dressing.

Asian Chicken Salad

Chinese chicken salad has become a classic in all of its incarnations.  Recipes have included Ramen noodles, cole slaw mix, and crispy fried chicken. This doesn’t have any of those. It was inspired by a recipe in Fine Cooking Magazine, but I took it in quite a different direction. And I made it lighter and… Continue reading Asian Chicken Salad