It looks like all three salads were winners-i wil definately be inviting you to my house~you’ll only need to bring one and we all will enjoy it!

You are so funny and I love you!! I’m blown away by your salads.. each one looks scrumptious! And YES salads can be scrumptious!

As I was babbling on in a recent e-mail to you.. it’s only be a little over a year, but you’ve situated yourself in my heart forever - I thank my lucky stars that I got up the nerve to write to you long ago about a certain calamari sauce (haha!).. we’ve been the best of friends - sisters - ever since!

Thank you so much for the salads, but more importantly for just being my friend & partner in crime! =)
xoxoxo

“Tastes Like burrnninngggg”. Not that your salad does, I am sure it is lovely, it looks lovely. But that is the line from the Simpsons that I always find rings true.. you know after I have eaten way too much. Food blogging does have its drawbacks.

My sources (in the form of my northern Italian grandmother) told me ending a meal with salad also aids in digestion.

Regardless of how or why Italian tradition evolved to structure the meal that way, simply dressed fresh lettuce, sweet in-season fruit and a wedge of ripe cheese is a scrumptious (to borrow Lisa’s phrase) way to end a meal.

Thanks for sharing your more celebratory recipes…the bibb lettuce, apple & avocado salad has me especially intrigued!

That’s the dressings we have every day with our salad except we use home-made red wine vingear This dressings goes very well with garlic also and you can try it with canola oil or walnut oil. Very nice nutty flavour. Love your pasta salad.

that roast potato, green bean and cherry tomato salad looks utterly delicious, Ivonne. And your mention of a sesame-green tea dressing had me intrigued.

that roast potato, green bean and cherry tomato salad looks utterly delicious, Ivonne. And your mention of a sesame-green tea dressing has me intrigued.

The salads look great & sound tasty! I too was thinking of the Simpsons and the episode where Homer cross-bred Tomato & Tobacco plants to get everyone addicted to a “Tomacco” plant. I’ve been eating lots of “tomatoes” of late.

both sound great, enjoy the summer!

I am going to try all of these! They all look delicious! You will definitely win me as a friend with those salads (and then maybe one of your gorgeous sweets for dessert?)

Goodness gracious Ivonne that’s my salad dressing;) anyway that’s pretty much the way I make mine. As much as I love Balsamic, I really love Champagne vinegar!
You didn’t need to win me over but these salads won’t hurt. So beautiful!

The reason you have salad first is to highlight just how good the following meat courses were! The only friends you win with salads are ones that go Moooooooooooooooooo

They look nice though, I’d have them on the side of tonight’s chicken dish…

I agree that friends can be won -and kept- with salads. Especially when it is fresh from your garden! Yum!

Yes you definitely do wins friends with salad. I love the Simpsons too- and these salads esp the potato, green beans and tomato one, looks great!

I have to say when I read the line “You can’t win friends with salad!” I could actually hear Bart and Homer in my head and I could even visualize them…Nice one!

Salads are highly under rated so thanks for bringing out where they belong!

Oh man, those salads are amazing!!! I always heard you eat salad last since it helps aid in digestion, but I think I like your fathers idea on cleansing the mouth for some juicy fruit! I am deffinately going to have to try that champagne-dijon dressing, so simple yet sounds so delicious!! Oh and the potatoe and green bean salad will deffinately show its face around our dinner plates come fall with roast beef! Lovely post, very inspiring!

Oh boy that first salad looks delectable, but I can’t seem to find it on epicurious.com!! :o(

I keep finding your blog because of your endorsement of “Tea Party”. I’m glad as a food blog you are enjoying her recipes. Are you a tea drinker as well?

Yes! For the Simpsons. Yes! For those salads. You are so wise, fearless leader!

Beautiful! I’m with you on the Simpsons my favourite line from that episode is when the pig is flying and Homer says “It’s just a little airborne it’s still good!”

You won me over way before the salad (which looks delicious).

Paz

Oh my that first picture looks scrumptious. And how nice to hear there’s a salad on your table each night. We’re salad people, too, and I love to experiment. That’s why this ‘Stravaganza has been so fun. I have loved seeing the entries come in as the month’s time has gone by. Thanks for your beautiful entry. That green apple, avocado combination sounds absolutely wonderful!

Oh my gosh! Tim always sings, “you don’t win friends with salad” pretty much every time we make one!
Funny stuff!

Oh what a fabulous post!!! We are a Simpsons loving household…and a salad loving household too! I often break out a few tried and true salad recipes for entertaining…and they are always a hit, usually accompanied by a comment like “gosh, it’s great to have a salad.”

I love light summer salads and foods, so refeshing from the heavier winter food choices. Thanks so much for sharing your salad recipes!

It’s good to see so many of my illustrator and paper crafts friends are visiting your blog!