A VARIETY OF OPTIONS FOR SALAD

I generally use a mini cuisinart to mix all the dressings I make, if you don't have one you will be doing a lot of chopping and shaking. Here are some options:

1) Lemon Dijon (aka real french dressing): Juice of 1 lemon/1 clove garlic peeled/1 tbsp grainy dijon/olive oil/salt/pepper: blend, streaming in olive oil for structure: goes well used as
- a mayonnaise free potato salad (use red skinned potatoes*), sub. apple cider vinegar for lemon/add parsley to dressing
- a baby arugula salad with dried sour cherries, pistachios**, goat cheese ***
- leftover salmon broken up in to a salad (add parsley,dill, shallots and capers to dressing)
- a tortellini salad**** with fresh red peppers, zucchini, sun dried tomatos (add parsley and basil to dressing)
- tuna salad with celery and tomatoes (omit the mustard and add a hit of tobasco sauce)
*you can do this with butter beans instead of potatoes and it kinds of taste like potato salad
**remove pistachos for less fat
***omit goat cheese for less fat
****don't do this if you are not eating carbs!!
2) Balsamic (substitute the lemon in the dressing above for really good balsamic and omit the garlic)
- mixed herb salad, with julienned strips of d'anjou pear, caramelized onions, gorgonzola, and pecans*
- a chopped salad with tomatoes, red peppers, cucumber, nicoise olives, feta**, micro greens, take a long strip of cucumber, make a circle, build the salad inside the cucumber for effect (add basil and or parsley to dressing).
*omit pecans for less fat
**do not use fat free feta or low fat feta, the flavor is not as good


3) Southwest (lime juice, garlic clove, olive oil, cumin to taste/salt/pepper/sugar).
- great for a southwestern slaw which could sit alongside fish tacos* or used for fish tacos*
- mixed green salad with chicken, cotija, and pepitas**.
- swirl over vegetarian chili or in tortilla soup***
*replace tortillas with lettuce leaves for lower carbs
**omit pepitas for less fat
***omit tortillas in tortilla soup for less fat, but then it really wouldn't be tortilla soup, would it?