Starters, Salads & Sauces

Can’t get any easier than this. Toss all of the ingredients in a bowl and serve with your protein hot off the grill!

This looks like a lot of ingredients, but you’ll see it’s sort of a dump and cook recipe. Not difficult at all. If you love making Asian food you probably have many of these ingredients in the house. 

A tasty fruit salad that is a breeze to make and a unique way to round out a meal. 

Try this Zolafied coleslaw recipe and you'll never go hunting for the secret Chick-Fil-A recipe again.

This comes together in a FLASH. When it’s hot outside and you want something easy but on the gourmet side, this hits the spot.

This is great as a light lunch time meal and a great holiday recipe. The juxtaposition of the sweeter apricots with the curry has the exotic taste I was looking for.

If you are going totally low carb you can serve this over lettuce. Bib lettuce would look nice.

Everything’s better with bacon. Right? Enjoy this crunch-filled chicken salad. Serve on top of salad or toast one piece of a low-carb bread, butter it and serve open-face.

The design of this dish is for fancy food for a hot day. You can make this much simpler and less expensive by using less expensive seafood and fish options.

I did a cooked variation of this dish and served it as an entrée. Loved it.

This will make a great side dish at your table; even your holiday table. And think of this as a way to use up leftover turkey.

You don’t even have to cook to make this dish! It’s just pick apart a chicken, chop up the veggies and stir the ingredients together. If your teenaged kids like Mexican, let them make this one!

In a hurry for dinner? Feeling like a cold entrée? This whips up really fast and will remind you of summer even though it includes winter fruit.

This is a recipe that can be multiplied to feed the MASSES. And it can be left on a buffet and served room temperature for a few hours.

This works well with all your favorite veggies, so enjoy!

This recipe is taken from the cookbook New Farm: Savoury Recipes from a Farmhouse Kitchen on the Isle of Bute by Carole Howard.

I designed this pear recipe to go with meat dishes. If you carve some turkey, slice some ham or grill up a pork tenderloin to go with this salad you’ll have a full meal.

This is a great little side salad, good with any dish.