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Salad Girl + Dumpling & Strand=Salad Love- By Kelly McManus
Read more →SALAD GIRL, KISMET AND SOBA = A FOOD LOVE STORYKismet is an awesome word. Meaning destiny or fate, it’s an event that, when it happens to you, you simply want to revel in it ... and then say the word all day long. Kismet is what happened to us 3 years ago, and reveals itself in this recipe. But first some backstory. Back in September 2014, some friends and I bought tickets to local public artist, Seitu Jones, at his public art event CREATE: The Community Meal. The event gathered some 2,000 people at a ½ mile long table in the middle of Saint Paul’s Victoria...
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Berries, Citrus & Salad Girl
Read more →Fresh organic greens, strawberries, sliced citrus, avocado, pistachios, Sartori cheese & Salad Girl Citrus Splash:)
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Celebrate Spring!
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Beautiful Greens & A Mn. Asian Greens Salad!
Read more →*“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career.” - Steve Jobs The quote above definitely holds true to the innovative patented growing technology utilized by the Living Greens Farm Folks, Faribault Mn. Living Greens Farm grows the freshest, most beautiful, lush, clean greens we have ever seen or tasted. I came across these lovely greens at one of my demos in the Fresh Thyme Farmers Market stores. I was amazed at the all of the beautiful varieties available & so...
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Sicilian Citrus, Fennel & Olive Salad
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A Heart Healthy Salad For your Sweet Heart!
Read more →I swung into Kowalskis Markets New North Oaks Digs! Beautiful setup and the produce dept is lovely! I took 5 minutes to pick up a healthy Sweet Heart Salad, and 5 minutes to prepare it and to eat it:)! Enjoy!!! An Amish Rotisserie Chicken, a 5 oz. box of Earthbound Organic Baby Lettuce a nice wedge of Sartori Black Pepper Bellavitano Cheese A small bag of roasted and salted pistachios A gorgeous 16 oz container of organic Strawberries 1 Bottle of Salad Girl Dark Cocoa & Sea Salt Vinaigrette A fresh Baguette
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A Nordic Winter Salad
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12 Salad Days Of Christmas!
Read more →Healthy Holiday entertaining doesn't need to add more stress to your full plate! Salad Girl has created 12 beautiful holiday salads that can be prepared in less than 5 minutes each using the healthy and tasty convenience of our lovely organic vinaigrettes as well as taking advantage of all the new and interesting pre-prepped ingredients available to us in all of our area markets! *Hints for one stop ingredient shopping for this salad: I was able to purchase everything for this recipe @ Woodbury Kowalskis Market: I found the Delicious already Carmelized Walnuts & Sartori Cheese...
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A Pair Of Autumn Salads!
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Time to Celebrate Stone Fruit!
Read more →Stone Fruits: Peaches, Nectarines, Plums, Apricots, and Cherries. Peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots, and cherries are all members of the Prunus genus and are therefore closely related. They commonly are referred to as "stone fruits" because the seed is very large and hard. Summer time is the ideal fresh stone fruit season, so let's celebrate these little beauties in some delicious salads! COLORADO PEACHES ARE HERE!
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More Simple Summer Suppers...
Read more →Fresh Organic Watemelon & Grilled Chicken Salad w/ Lemony Herb... Simple Summer Suppers are a necessity in my household, especially at the end of some of these hot, humid Summer days. I am an open-windows-in-the-Summertime kind of gal and If I lived alone, I wouldn't even turn on a burner. But since I am still blessed with the company of my husband and often a Grandchild or two for dinner, I will bear the hardship of boiling a bit of pasta or another grain, but...
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Salad Girl for Breakfast? Fantastic!
Read more →How often do you eat the exact same thing for breakfast day after day? Have you ever tried Salad Girl on something other than a salad. Our dressings make amazing grilling marinades for meats, seafood, and veggies. They are delicious as sandwich condiments and dips. Try a delectable combo of toast/bagel/croissant with a poached egg, avocado, spinach, and Salad Girl Lemony Herb for breakfast or for your next brunch gathering. You'll never go back to plain egg and cheese on an English muffin. Taste the experience!
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Dark Cocoa & Sea Salt Vinaigrette on a Salad? You Bet!
Read more →Try our amazing new Dark Cocoa & Sea Salt Vinaigrette this Memorial Day Weekend! It's a crowd pleaser!!
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Some Simple Summer Slaws!
Read more →Our first slaw of the season is a lovely Fresh Mango, Coconut & Macadamia Nut Slaw-easy to make, delicious and beautiful! 1 bag (10 oz) Manns Organic Broccoli Slaw tossed with 2 cups freshly chopped mango, 1cup of organic unsweetened coconut, 1.5 cups crumbled roasted and salted macadamia nuts, 1 cup sliced sugar snap peas, 1.5 cups Manns Cauliettes (cute little finely chopped cauliflower) and 1/2 bottle of The Salad Girl Curry & Fig Organic Salad Dressing, Mix all ingredients in a pretty bowl and Enjoy! This is a great side salad or dollop a spoonful atop a grilled veggie burger or...
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Spring Salads!
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Roasted Roots & Fruits Salad
Read more →A mix of deeply flavorful roasted root veggies & vibrant citrus combined with some dark hardy leafy greens, crunchy walnuts, salty sweet ribbons of Sartori Bellavitano and Voila! This is the winter Salad that reflects the Joy I'm feeling on this sunny Wintery day.
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Add some color to your Winter Blues!
Read more →Head on over to our friends at Jerry's Foods http://www.jerrysfoods.com/ this weekend to sample some really unique, delicious and colorful salad ingredients being served up with our Salad Girl Organic Dressings by the creative and talented folks from Jerry's Pantry. One of the most interesting and beautiful veggies they will be featuring is my favorite Winter radish: called The Misato rose or the Rose Heart or Beauty Heart or Watermelon Radish. You definitely can't judge this radish by its cover, because this little stealth of a winter root veggie looks like a simple turnip from the outside, but scrub the outer skin...
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Festive Holiday Salad!
Read more →Easy Holiday Entertaining Salad Ideas from Salad Girl! Festive Holiday Salad: Serving 10 2- 5oz containers organic greens 2- 6 oz clam shell fresh organic raspberries 2 cups fresh organic pomegranate seeds (usually can find already seeded) 1.5 cups raw crumbled organic walnuts 1.5 cups grated Sartori Raspberry Bellavitano Cheese 2 Ripe golden starfruit sliced into pretty little stars 2 bottles Salad Girl Pomegranate Pear Organic Salad Dressing
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Eating Autumn!
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Stretch Out Your Summer Meals with Salad Girl! Serving Up: Wild Fish Tacos & Tangy, Dapple Dandy Plum Slaw
Read more →Summertime is Salad Time, and here at Salad Girl we love coming up with new, unique, seasonal salads-- especially when we can stretch our ingredients to create more than one delicious meal for you and your family. Last week, we introduced you to our favorite local fisherman and St. Paul Native, Matt Oxford. We purchased some of Matt's salmon at the White Bear Lake Farmers Market and made a yummy, grilled salmon salad. Then, we had friends over Friday evening for dinner and had enough leftover grilled salmon to serve fish tacos. Jimmy found gorgeous, Organic Dapple Dandy Plums at The...
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Enjoy a Delicious Spring Apple Green Salad!
Read more →Spring is the perfect time to savor a healthy, beautiful, and delicious organic Salad Girl Salad! Just print out this simple recipe, shop for all the ingredients in the refrigerated produce area of your favorite market, and voila!
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Spring Greens!
Read more →Arugula, Mache, Dandelion Greens, Pea Shoots and Water Cress are some of my favorite Spring Greens, and I can't wait to start celebrating Spring with them! As I visit my local co-op, I'm starting to find fresh greens in all their glory. These greens inspire me. I love to make use of each one in my Spring salads. For a new Easter Brunch serving idea, I decided to use some darling little clay flower pots to compose my brunch salads. Prepare to fall in love. The sweet, salty, and creamy white Sartori Montamore cheese is perfection when mingled with the...
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Lemon Plums! Add Some Sun-Shiny Yellow Goodness To Your Mid-Winter Blues and Fresh Greens!
Read more →The minute I spied these bright little pesticide-free Chilean Lemon Plums, with their vibrant canary yellow skin and blushing scarlet pointed tails, ta-da! Immediate salad inspiration! The perfect way for us chilled Minnesotans to break up the mid-winter below-zero blues is to make a delicious salad chock full of color, vitamin A, vitamin C and all of the rich antioxidant filled plums, greens, blueberries and walnuts! I have been craving my Blueberry Basil Dressing lately, so in using some of my winter pantry goods, I opt to add some dried blueberries and crunchy raw walnuts. For a bit of complimentry color and texture...
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Rev Up Your Immune System With Citrus!
Read more →The colors of these delightful salad ingredients will not only please your eyes, but their essence also wakes up every cell in your body & refreshes your spirit! Share this lovely Pomegranate & Citrus Salad with your family & friends! Enjoy!
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Spinning A Salad Tale 2 different ways!
Read more →Seasonal Ingredients for our salads Salads On A Stick for a healthy apetizer! The Table Scapes A Composed Salad The Buffet or Family Style Salad Shopping List & Recipes!
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A Tisket a Tasket, Gift a Friend a Salad Basket...
Read more →This is a great, creative way to gift a few, good friends a "Salad Luncheon." All you need is a cute, little basket and 6 mason jars filled with some yummy, Autumn salad ingredients (recipe below) and a bottle of Salad Girl Crisp Apple Maple Dressing. Voila! An Autumn Salad Luncheon for 6! The Honey Crisp Apple was developed by the University of Minnesota and is grown in Minnesota. Its most unique quality is the extremely crisp and delicate texture. There really is no other apple like it! The flavor has a nice balance between sugar and acid giving it a sweet...
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Salad Girl & Mandy McGregor Create "A Spooky, Little Halloween Party!"
Read more →Salad Girl is so proud to introduce you to Mandy McGregor . Mandy has signed on with us as one of our new contributing Life Style Bloggers. We were imediately attracted to Mandy's beautiful tablescape styling on Pinterest and quickly fell in love with her fresh new approach to telling the Salad Girl Story for us in her photographs! As a twenty-somthing wife & mama, Mandy is navigating life in the Midwest with her husband and 3 little ones. Mandy divides her time as a stay-at-home momma and a freelance photographer & blogger. "A beautiful life starts with the small things; capturing the...
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~Fresh Fall Fig Salad~
Read more →With the leaves changing and their colors peaking, a certain crisp smell of autumn fills the air. Picking the last of the green tomatoes, I'm anxiously awaiting the brussles and then it's time to clean out the garden and make ready for the cold weather to come. I look forward to this "sweater weather" and welcome foods that are harvested in the fall such as winter squash, pumpkins, apples, pears, and "fresh figs." I purchased a dozen or so fresh Black Mission Figs from the River Market in Stillwater, Minnesota, last week and quickly created this recipe....
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3 Bean Salad, an Honorable Mention Recipe
Read more →I never get tired of eating fresh green beans in the summertime! I have fond memories as a child looking forward to my Grandpa Sullivan arriving at our little summer cabin with a great big bag of his freshly picked green beans for us to help him prepare for our summer supper. We would give momma a break from at least 4 of the 7 kids, and sit with Grandpa down on the dock with a big silver colander on his lap. We sat with our tootsies in the lake tipping beans with Grandpa while eagerly reminiscing over our agate...
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SALAD GIRL - American Made 2014 Finalist
Read more →Salad Girl is very proud to have been a finalist in the Martha Stewart American Made 2014 contest. We love the fact that so many small, family, American Made businesses received recognition during this contest.
