Salads
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Am trying some recipes for various types of side salads.
First one up is a classic red kidney bean salad.
https://www.theseoldcookbooks.com/red-bean-salad/
The recipe didn’t have celery but I added a stalk.
I recently bought some Duke's mayonnaise when I saw it show up at one of the stores I shop at. Different than the Hellmann's I'm accustomed to. Duke's seems to be more lemony.
As I mentioned in my garden update, looks like we'll have lots of spuds this year, so I'll be making Japanese Potato Salad in the not-too-distant future.
Got any family favorite salad recipes to share?
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Verdict is in on the kidney bean salad. The finished dish was tasty but a a bit "egg forward". Almost tasted more like egg salad than kidney bean salad.
We'll cut back to one HB egg, or leave the egg out altogether next time around.
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I put eggs in a lot of salads--potato salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, salad nicoise--but not bean salad. I'm thinking about whether I'd like them in bean salad and...I'm thinking no? For bean salad, I don't do much other than marinate the beans in some vinaigrette with maybe some finely onions and herbs.
I don't have any really creative family salad recipes to contribute, because I do the same thing for potato, tuna, and chicken salad and it's not fancy: Mix the main ingredient with chopped boiled eggs, chopped sweet pickles, mayonnaise, salt, pepper, and a drizzle of pickle juice.
Oh and for potato salad, I'd fancy it up with a sprinkling of paprika on top.
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Turkish Shepherd's Salad is a favorite for summer! I'm not even sure MrsTuner uses a recipe any more - this sounds pretty close.
https://www.turkeysforlife.com/2020/04/shepherds-salad-coban-salatasi.html
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This reminds me of a salad I want to make, my mom’s recipe. It’s just potatoes (the little round ones), fresh dill, fresh parsley, celery… and what else? Some kind of oil?? I can’t remember
It was so good, and the fact that it didn’t have a ton of different ingredients made it really nice… I’ll have to ask her what the fifth ingredient was.
(I’m not good with these culinary things…)
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Strawberry Mac - greens, strawberries, macadamias, blue cheese and a raspberry poppy seed vinaigrette.
Taking this to dinner with friends tonight.
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Strawberry Mac sounds good and it reminds me of a watermelon salad that I had at a friend's house. I've made several variations on it.
The original recipe is chunks of watermelon, slivered onions, chunked feta cheese, sprigs of mint, and an oil and vinegar dressing. The proportions of each are totally up to the cook.
I'm on the fence about the cheese, so I usually leave it out. I'm not wild about mint, so I swap it for dill or cilantro, but basil would also work. I season the oil and vinegar dressing with salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and powdered garlic. (I prefer fresh garlic most of the time and I'm sure it would be amazing in this dish, but it would also make the recipe all about the garlic. The powdered garlic stays in the background better, IMHO. Also the salt, ground black and cayenne peppers, and ground garlic seem to help the vinaigrette emulsify.)
I'm sure this would also be good made with other melons or a medley of them.
This salad is great the first day and arguably better on the second, after the flavors have blended, although this may be more true of my non-cheese version. It doesn't seem like feta would be happy in watermelon juice for very long. A
