Salad Recipes

Cornbread Salad

This cornbread salad is a classic Southern-style layered salad made with sweet cornbread, bell peppers, tomatoes, corn, bacon, shredded cheese, and a creamy ranch salsa dressing. This side dish is served cold, feeds a crowd easily, and works well for p…

Banana Pudding Fluff Salad

Banana Pudding Fluff Salad is the kind of easy dessert salad that always goes over well at potlucks and holidays. It has the soft, creamy flavor of traditional banana pudding but comes together like a classic fluff salad with marshmallows, whipped topp…

Southern Ambrosia Recipe

Classic Southern ambrosia salad recipe with pineapple chunks, mandarin oranges, mini marshmallows, and sweetened coconut all in a creamy whipped…

Cozy Fall Butternut Squash Salad

This Roasted Butternut Squash Salad is a cozy fall favorite that’s as nourishing as it is delicious. Made with tender roasted butternut squash, hearty kale, toasted nuts, and a maple-sage dressing, it’s the perfect balance of sweet and savory. — It’s v…

Strawberry Fluff Salad

There are so many versions of fluff salads out there, but this Strawberry Fluff Salad with pretzels is hands down one of my favorites. You get that creamy, sweet whipped layer, fresh juicy strawberries, and the surprise crunch of buttery sugared pretze…

Pineapple Pretzel Salad

This pineapple pretzel salad is a sweet and salty side dish recipe made with crushed pretzels, cream cheese, Cool Whip, and pineapple. Often called pineapple fluff, it has a light, creamy texture that makes it perfect for holidays, potlucks, or family …

Apple Salad

The sort of hearty apple salad I love. It has heirloom apples, shaved celery, and toasted nuts of your choosing. The dressing is creamy and spiked with rosemary, garlic and champagne vinegar.

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Reuben Pasta Salad (with Canned Corned Beef)

If you love the flavors of a classic Reuben sandwich, this cold Reuben pasta salad is a fun way to enjoy them in a cold side dish. It has corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, pickles, and a creamy Thousand Island dressing mixed with pasta. Using cann…

Our Best Easy Dinners

For a recipe to be easy, I want it to not only be done in less than 45 minutes (prep to plate), it also needs to be made with ingredients I have in the house or are easy to find. Easy dinners lists that include laborious steps and complicated ingredien…

Jalapeno Pasta Salad

When I think of summer cookouts, pasta salad is always on the table. But this jalapeno popper pasta salad recipe? It’s a whole different level. It’s creamy, cheesy, a little spicy, and loaded with bacon, basically everything you’d want from jalapeno po…

Watermelon Arugula Salad with Crispy Shallots

Celebrate watermelon season with this light and flavorful salad tossed in a bright white balsamic vinaigrette. During a getaway to Santa Barbara last month, Barclay and I took a day trip to Ojai and completely fell in love with the picturesque, laid-back little town. We wandered from shop to shop, stopped into a handful of […]

Viral Shaved Carrot Salad

This viral shaved carrot salad is all over TikTok and with good reason. It’s light, tangy, and crunchy, made with thin carrot ribbons, a sesame-soy dressing, and no mayo in sight. I gave the viral carrot ribbon salad a try, and while it’s not my usual …

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