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Chopped Collard Green Salad

November 6, 2019 By msmart Leave a Comment

The Perfect Fall Salad Next week our school book fair begins. What does that have to do with collard green salad, you say? Texans love a good potluck and my favorite one of the year happens to be at our school book fair. It’s a group effort and a hodge podge of everything from pimento…

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Filed Under: Entertaining, Fall, Gluten-free/Gluten-free adaptable, Grain-free, Holidays, Salad Dressings, Salads, Thanksgiving, Uncategorised Tagged With: fall salad, salad, Thanksgiving menu, Thanksgiving salad

Roasted Squash Arugula Salad

September 16, 2019 By msmart Leave a Comment

Roasted squash arugula salad

Roasted Squash and Arugula Salad + Farm Girls Supper Club Two weeks until the next FGSC! What’s that, you say? A couple times a year, I co-host a seasonal pop-up dinner called Farm Girls Supper Club. Along with local Houston creatives Courtney Paddock of Little Coterie and Kelli Bunch of KB Table, we create an…

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Filed Under: Dairy-Free, Entertaining, Gluten-free/Gluten-free adaptable, Grain-free, Salads, Uncategorised, Whole 30, Winter Tagged With: fall salad, salad

Mixed Greens with Chili-Almond Croutons

July 16, 2019 By msmart Leave a Comment

Mixed greens with almond-chili croutons

Mixed Greens with Crunchy Almonds This salad came together out of pure luck one day. The chili-almond “croutons” were left over from a soup recipe, and they just happened to be the perfect match for mixed greens with tart apple cider vinaigrette. The Almond Topping The crunchy topping is part of a carrot-harissa soup recipe…

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Dairy-Free, Salad Dressings, Salads, Whole 30 Tagged With: salad

Radicchio and Radish Salad

February 11, 2019 By msmart Leave a Comment

Radicchio and radish salad

Radicchio and Radish Salad The bright red color in this salad gets me every time, it’s too beautiful not to share with you all. To start with, butter lettuce from my garden fills up the bottom of the salad bowl and adds a mellow component. I’ll also use mixed greens when I don’t have enough…

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Salads, Vegetable Side Dish, Whole 30 Tagged With: colorful salad, dinner salad, mixed greens, radicchio, salad

Shortcut Caesar Salad

August 30, 2018 By msmart 1 Comment

shortcut caesar salad

Easy Caesar Salad (Whole30 Adaptable) If there’s a shortcut, I’m in. Making every single thing from scratch is valiant and all, but who has the time? I have carpool to drive, people! Shortcut caesar salad to the rescue. It’s a super easy side to grilled steak or delicious as a main dish topped with roasted…

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Salad Dressings, Salads, Uncategorised, Vegetable Side Dish, Whole 30 Tagged With: caesar salad, salad, Whole30, Whole30 salad

Spinach Salad with Pesto and Peas

May 25, 2018 By msmart 2 Comments

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Spinach Salad with Pesto and Peas, Please! If you’re hosting friends for a backyard BBQ this weekend — or heading to a lake house, the beach or the mountains — make this easy spinach salad. It’s my go-to summer salad, full of flavor, easy to put together and always a crowd pleaser. I found this…

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Entertaining, Gluten-free/Gluten-free adaptable, Salads, Spring, Summer, Vegetable Side Dish Tagged With: memorial day entertaining, pesto pea salad, spinach salad, summer salad

Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad

November 23, 2017 By msmart Leave a Comment

Ok friends. I swore to my kids I wouldn’t try to create a healthy Thanksgiving menu, but I do think it’s good to balance virtue and vice. When you have a table filled with probably twenty pounds of butter-and carb-filled side dishes, it’s important to have something green. Yesterday in the Houston Chronicle, I had…

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Arugula, Watermelon and Feta Salad

July 3, 2017 By msmart 2 Comments

1 votePrintArugula, Watermelon and Feta SaladPrep 15 minsTotal 15 minsAuthor Marcia W. Smart I use toasted pine nuts in this recipe. Slivered almonds or toasted pecan pieces would also be delicious, or if you have nut allergies leave them out entirely. Ingredients3 cups baby arugula1 cup watermelon, cut into small bite-size pieces2 tablespoons pine nuts,…

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Kale and Brussels Sprout Salad

March 5, 2017 By msmart 5 Comments

Just in time! Right before kale and Brussels sprout season is over, I need you to get your hands on this recipe for my favorite kale salad. (And just to clarify, yes kale is available all year, but it’s really a winter crop.) It all started at the end of last summer when we made a quick trip to…

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Super Simple Salad Dressing

February 27, 2017 By msmart 1 Comment

Super simple salad dressing

There’s a simple way to amp up your dinner game: Make your own salad dressing. You heard me, right? Just checking. It takes five minutes to make a super simple salad dressing, which uses only four ingredients that you should have stocked in your pantry or fridge. The return on flavor, not to mention the…

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Marcia Smart is a cooking instructor, recipe developer and food writer who wants to help you make good, simple meals for your family and friends. She craves food that's seasonal and delicious and wants to share it with you. A California girl living in a Houston world with her husband and three children.

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