The Best-Ever Summer Salad Recipe Collection

Looking For A Delicious Summer Salad?

There is nothing quite like a crisp and crunchy salad in the summertime...or a potato salad or a macaroni salad for that matter.

On this page, please join us in our celebration of the magnificent summer salad. Here you will find links to a collection of fantastic salad recipes and resources all perfect accompaniments for grilling season.

We urge you, however, to consider eating these salads all year long because, of course, salad is good (and good for you) at anytime of the year.

Click here to order this Summer Salad Poster from Allposters.

The Best-Ever Green Salad Recipe

Adapted from the Looneyspoons cookbook by Janet and Greta Podleski, my family truly loves this special leafy green salad and yours will, too.

The Best-Ever Looneyspoons Garden Salad Recipe

The Best-Ever Hawaiian Potato Salad Recipe

Whether it is truly representative of Hawaii has been debated but the fact that it is a delicious summertime salad has not. It has a host of wonderful ingredients, some ordinary for potato salad, others a bit more unordinary. Regardless, if you are looking for a delicious, nutritious take on potato salad, you'll want to be checking out this one.

The Best-Ever Hawaiian Potato Salad Recipe

The Best-Ever Marinated Snow Peas and Tomatoes Salad Recipe

It never ceases to amazing us how lovely this snow pea salad is. It is crisp and fresh and colorful, making it a wonderful side dish with poultry.

The Best-Ever Marinated Snow Peas and Tomatoes Salad Recipe

The Best-Ever Molded Rice Salad Recipe

The Best-Ever Molded Rice Salad recipe is a bit more unusual being a cold rice salad. Customize it a bit with your favorite fresh vegetables and you have a heartier salad addition to your meal.

The Best-Ever Molded Rice Salad Recipe

The Best Easy Coleslaw Recipe

This recipe isn't ours. It belongs to a good friend, Susan. However, we love the fact that it is a shortcut recipe that is quick and easy and delicious, too. You will be surprised at how few ingredients it contains. Take a guess and then visit Susan's recipe for

Best Coleslaw Recipe for Your Summer Picnic or Barbecue

An Easy Microwave German Potato Salad Recipe

Another one of Susan's recipes, this German potato salad recipe sounds warm, and as Susan herself says, a bit different. It is not overly complicated and it cooks up quickly.

Easy Microwave German Potato Salad Recipe

Celebrity Salad Recipes

• Martha Stewart's Quick Side Salad Recipes
  Visit Martha Stewart's Quick Side Salad Recipes collection.
• Martha Stewart's Quick Side Main-Course Salad Recipes
  Visit Martha Stewart's Quick Main-Course Salad Recipes collection.
• Paula Deen's Broccoli Salad Recipe
  The Food Network invites you to try this Broccoli Salad recipe from Paula Deen.
• Paula Deen's Corn and Asparagus Salad Recipe
  The Food Network invites you to try this Corn and Asparagus Salad recipe from Paula Deen.
• Jamie Oliver's Greek Salad Recipe
  This salad is known and loved around the world. Those of you who've been lucky enough to eat this salad in Greece will know that when it's made well it's absolute heaven.
• Jamie Oliver's The Mothership Tomato Salad Recipe
  The Food Network invites you to try this The Mothership Tomato Salad recipe from Jamie Oliver.
• Rachael Ray's 6 Easy Whole Grain Salad Recipes
  The Food Network invites you to try these six whole grain salad recipes from Rachael Ray.
• Rachel Ray's Black Bean and Corn Salad Recipe
  The Food Network invites you to try this Black Bean and Corn Salad recipe from Rachael Ray.
• Giada De Laurentiis' Mediterranean Salad Recipe
  The Food Network invites you to try this Mediterranean Salad recipe from Giada De Laurentiis.
• Wolfgang Puck Salad Recipes
  Enjoy these 15 Wolfgang Puck salad recipes.
• Ina Garten's Guacamole Salad Recipe
  Food Network invites you to try this Guacamole Salad recipe from Ina Garten.
• Ina Garten's Cape Cod Chopped Salad Recipe
  This quick and easy recipe made with apples, bacon, and blue cheese is hearty enough for a main dish, perfect for the fall, and great when you're short on time.

The Best-Ever Salad Spinner

Definitely a handy tool when making a tossed or green salad is a salad spinner and we love ours, the Oxo Good Grips Salad Spinner. Read our complete review of the Oxo Salad Spinner by clicking right here or follow the following link to read more on Amazon.

• The Best Salad Spinner Is The OXO Good Grips Salad S...
  Eating healthily is a little easier when you have great kitchen tools like this OXO salad spinner!

The Best-Ever Presto Salad Shooter

We love our Presto Salad Shooter, too, although we will admit that it is the only salad shooter that we have ever used and we will also step out of the salad world long enough to add that it is an amazing way to grate your cheese. You can read our complete review of the Presto Salad Shooter by clicking here:

• The Presto Electric Saladshooter Slicer Shredder Kit...
  My Presto Saladshooter and I first met about five years ago. We were introduced at my cousin's home when we were tasked to work together to prepare supper. My cousin, Wil, handed me HIS Presto Saladshooter and said, "Here you go, YOU do the cheese.".

Salad as a Meal: Healthy Main-Dish Salads for Every Season - By Patricia Wells

We often love to eat a salad that makes a complete meal with, perhaps, the addition of a loaf of fresh bread. Salad as a Meal: Healthy Main-Dish Salads for Every Season by Patricia Wells offers 150 delicious and hearty salads that will help you put supper on the table

Well Dressed: Salad Dressings - By Jeff Keys

If you are like many of us and want to avoid some of the additaves, fat and sodium that can be found in commercially sold salad dressings, you might like to check out Well Dressed: Salad Dressings by Jeff Keys. Within the covers of this cookbook you will find 75 recipes for vinaigretes, creamy dressings, and even warm dressings to use on your green salads, pasta salads, vegetables, and even with which to marinate meat .

Salad Makes the Meal: 150 Simple and Inspired Salad Recipes Everyone Will Love - By Wiley Mullins

Salad Makes the Meal offers up 150 Simple and Inspired Salad Recipes Everyone Will Love. It includes ideas for healthier meals that include fresh, grilled, steamed and roasted salad dishes. You'll like the solid Amazon customer reviews and check out that incredible LOW price...

More Salad Recipes

• The Best-Ever Marinated Snow Peas and Tomatoes Salad...
  If you are looking for a very fresh, wonderfully nutritious, extremely delicious and boldly colorful salad, The Best-Ever Marinated Snow Peas and Tomatoes salad is the one for you. It is a simple salad or side dish, consisting of just eight...
• The Best-Ever Looneyspoons Garden Salad Recipe
  Looking for a yummy low-fat salad recipe? This Looneyspoons recipe is nutritious and delicious!
• The Best-Ever Molded Rice Salad Recipe
  Here's a different way to serve your rice in the summertime: in a molded salad.
• The Best-Ever Egg Salad Sandwich Recipe
  We've been eating this super delicious egg salad sandwich for almost twenty years. It is without question the best sandwich that we make and it is most definitely a family favorite. The recipe makes enough egg salad for two or three sandwiches but...
• The Best-Ever Hawaiian Potato Salad Recipe
  Potato salad, made with this recipe, is one of my favorite things to eat in the summer.

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Do you love a summer salad?

Elyn MacInnis from Shanghai, China on August 30, 2013:

Yum. I love salad. In China we have to be careful to only eat salad at home or where we know it has been washed well and rinsed with clean water. It makes making salad a little more tiring! But it is worth it. Thanks for all the recipes you collected here.

June Campbell from North Vancouver, BC, Canada on August 23, 2013:

What a great collection.

Mobley5 on July 08, 2013:

Great collection of salad recipes - thanks!

gemjane on July 08, 2012:

good stuff! Thanks for the lens.

Joan4 on May 14, 2012:

yummy salads and yes, I want potato salad too, right now!

KateHonebrink on May 13, 2012:

There are enough recipes here to last all summer, but only if I get started cooking ASAP! Great lens - kudos on making the BBQ monsterboard!

clouda9 lm on May 13, 2012:

I have been in the mood for salad for days now. Just tossed up a simple Greek salad last night - romaine, olives, red onion, cherry tomatoes, feta then drizzled with olive oil and balsamic, which kinda sorta curbed my cravings. Mmm! to your summer salad list.

anonymous on May 11, 2012:

These ALL sound yummy!

webdevelopmentservices on May 11, 2012:

Well It looks good. i would love to try it ASAP.

anonymous on May 10, 2012:

How fun! Thanks for all the great recipes. congrats on making the monsterboard.

IMKZRNU2 from Pacific Northwest on May 10, 2012:

What a wonderful tool for using throughout the year! Thanks for sharing this lens and Gratz on making the Monster Boards!

bossypants on May 10, 2012:

Nice list of resources for about any sort of salad anyone would like! Now, I'm hungry fro a good dollop of potato salad!

Didijudy from Canada on May 09, 2012:

Great lens and will definitely be trying some of your recipes soon! Thanks for sharing!

KarenCookieJar on May 08, 2012:

I love making fresh salads especially tomato, mozzarella and basil with balsamic vinaigrette .

MelonyVaughan on May 07, 2012:

Excellent recipes - thanks for sharing.

Deb Kingsbury from Flagstaff, Arizona on May 07, 2012:

I've been eating loads of salads lately, since I'm doing Weight Watchers (those pesky 20 pounds!) so the more variety, the better. Plain ol' lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and carrots gets old.

Dianne Loomos on May 06, 2012:

It's getting warm enough here for summer salads. I've been craving potato salad!

Auntie-M LM on May 06, 2012:

I thought I made a lot of salads, but I think you've got me beat! Super selection.

Susan Deppner from Arkansas USA on May 06, 2012:

Awesome! I agree with Robin, this is a super summer salad resource list. Love the artwork, too! (Thanks for including a couple of my salads, too!) Did I say ! ?

Robin S from USA on May 06, 2012:

This is my new summer salad resource list!