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Southwest Chicken Salad & Cilantro Lime Vinaigrette

September 8, 2014 By Taylor 1 Comment

Y’all, something happened… I found the world’s best salad dressing. I don’t even need to call it a dressing, it can be a dip or you could put it on meat or I might just drink it with a straw. I present: Cilantro Lime Vinaigrette, it’s not my recipe I found it HERE. If you love cilantro half as much as I do then you will love this dressing (seriously cilantro is my favorite food!)

Anyway I found it a few weeks ago and I have made it every week since. To go along with it we made a Southwest Chicken Salad the other night. You know, cause eating dressing with a spoon might be weird so it needed a vehicle.

For the Southwest Chicken Salad:

-marinated grilled chicken

-green leaf lettuce (my personal favorite lettuce)

-celery

-carrots

-green onion

-black beans

-english cucumber

-bell pepper

-avocado

-corn

-cojita cheese

Toss all the ingredients in a bowl and top with the best dressing ever :) Speaking of a bowl, how cute is this one? The nice people at Red Envelope sent it to us because we make a ton of salads at our house! I love the feel of it, its really thick and feels “hearty”… perfect for a chicken salad. I also just love looking at it. Now I need open cabinets because it’s too cute to be behind closed doors. I’m like the mouse from “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie”!

You can find the bowl HERE.

Let me know if you make this dressing and if you like it as much as I do. I wont judge you on how much you consume, after all it’s healthy :)

Black Bean Salad

April 15, 2011 By Taylor 2 Comments

Are you feeling springy yet? I sure hope so and if you are I’m jealous because I am feeling summery already and I don’t like it. If you know me, you know that I am extremely hot natured and wear my flip flops all winter long. So, I’m not happy that it has been in the upper 80’s all week, Houston, its April… you are killing me!

What does this ramble have to do with Black Bean Salad? Its hot, and when its hot I like cold food. So I made Black Bean Salad the other night on the side of our Chipotle Pork Tenderloin and Baked Sweet Potatoes. Its simple, healthy, cold and Finn couldn’t stop eating it!

Black Bean Salad:
– 2 cans of Black Beans
– 1 avocado
– cilantro (I love a ton but add as much or as little as you like)
– 4 scallions
– juice from 2 limes
– 2 tablespoons olive oil
– salt to taste

Cobb Salad with Red Wine Vinaigrette

March 28, 2011 By Taylor 2 Comments

Spring has Sprung so you know what that means… It means it’s only March here in Houston and its in the high 80’s. Yes its true, its hot already! Which makes me want to eat cold things so if you live somewhere that is snowing right now, please excuse my Springy Salad post. You can bookmark this recipe for when you need it!

First of all can I say that I am a sucker for any Vinaigrette so my favorite part of this salad is the dressing. The Cobb Salad is pretty traditional, we used:

Green Leaf Lettuce

Grape Tomatoes

Radishes

Scallions

Grilled Chicken Breasts

Hard Boiled Eggs (which I can never get to look pretty, any tips?)

Avocado

Bacon

Goat Cheese

Carrots

Celery

Just line the ingredients up over the chopped lettuce…

Red Wine Vinaigrette:

1/4 c red wine vinegar

2 tbsp fresh lemon juice

2 tsp sugar

1/4 tsp dry mustard

1 tsp chopped garlic

1/2 c olive oil

Tropical Fruit Salad

February 25, 2011 By Taylor Leave a Comment

Hello blog, how I have missed thee! I have had a crazy past few weeks, hopefully everything is back to “normal” or as normal as possible with my boys. So earlier this month, I was supposed to help host a little Baby Shower Brunch with some of my sorority sisters. I was in charge of the decorations and the fruit salad. Poor Baby Brunch. They were decor/fruit salad-less because I went into labor that morning. So needless to say, my balloons deflated and my husband and Finn ate the fruit salad. I thought I would share my Tropical Fruit Salad secret so it wasn’t a total waste. It is so simple and everyone always loves it.

My secret “sauce”: Fresh Lemon and Lime Juice with a teaspoon of honey

Cut up your fruit, I change it up depending on my mood but this time I added; strawberries, bananas, nectarines, blackberries, kiwi and pineapple. Then is a separate bowl, squeeze 1 lemon and 1 lime and add a little honey. Wish that together then pour onto your fruit. It also helps the fruit keep its color. So sad I didn’t even get to taste it…. but Clyde was worth it!