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Marinated Courgette Salad


This is a really quick, no cook, low fat salad. It’s great on its own as a healthy light lunch or as an accompaniment to a grilled chicken breast to make it more substantial salad, perhaps for an evening meal.

Honey & Lime Salad Dressing


A really quick and tasty salad dressing. Honey and Lime salad dressing is perfect for salads with avocados, ham or feta cheese, it just takes a minute or two to prepare.

Hot Spinach Salad


Hot Spinach salad is relatively quick and easy to prepare, it does involve some cooking, but what you end up with is worth the effort, a tasty hot salad.

Crayfish Salad


Some readers may be aware of the SEOs Fight Fat for charity campaign, which is a great thing to do, for themselves and for their chosen causes. Today I adapted a favourite recipe of mine to give the participants a really tasty and low calorie Crayfish Salad, ideal for a light lunch.

Smoked Salmon Salad


This is a really easy salad recipe, and of course it’s also tasty and satisfying. It took less than 10 minutes to make so is ideal for those days when you are pressed for time and need something quick.

Crab Louie Salad


Recently I purchased a set of Art Deco Sundae glasses, with the intention of using them for making desserts, however being much more fond of salads than desserts I couldn’t resist using them for a killer salad! I decided to make a salad that would have been eaten around the time that the glasses [...]

Prawn and Mango Salad


This Prawn and Mango salad makes an ideal light lunch, it is quick and easy to prepare, ready to eat in about 15 minutes.

Crispy Croutons


Here’s a quick and simple twist on an old favourite, croutons. Croutons are great to add to salads, but the traditional small square of plain crispy bread could do with a make over, and here it is…

Warm Vegetable Salad


Now that it’s getting colder and winter will soon be here, you may be thinking salads are off the menu, but you would be wrong. There are many warm salads that you can make that will shake off that winter chill and excite your taste buds. This is an easy salad recipe that [...]

Lemon Vinaigrette


Thinking about making salad dressings that will work with wine, this is a vinaigrette that uses no vinegar at all, instead the vinegar is replaced with lemon juice. It is an excellent salad dressing for roasted vegetables.