Favorite Summer Salads + Spiel the Beans Linkup
Summer is my favorite time to eat salad! All the items you need for a great salad are so fresh and easy to grab this time of year. It’s also the time of year for cookouts and gatherings with friends and family and I’m always looking for just the right thing to bring along. Here are a few of my go to salads.
Years back I scrapbooked alot….like on full weekend retreats. The coordinator always made the best food including this Strawberry Spinach Salad. She used candied walnuts instead of pecans and always Brianna’s Poppyseed dressing to toss it in. I could have survived on this alone! This recipe from I Wash You Dry is very similar. I have not made this in years and now I am craving it!
This broccoli bacon salad from Yummy Healthy Easy is definitely a family favorite and one my family knows they better be first in line to snag at a picnic. We do not add dried cranberries typically to avoid the extra sugar plus we think it is sweet enough on it’s own.
My families all around favorite is this tortellini pasta salad. It is so easy to make and so incredibly delicious. I never have leftovers if I arrive with this one.
See all the yummy salads I’ve been pinning by following my salad board!
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Love me a good spinach salad. I always add a fruit to it. You have some yummy recipes here. Right now with temps high here in the Carolinas, salads are preferred over cooking in a kitchen.
Oh, goodness. It looks (and I'm betting it also tastes) good.
That spinach salad and pasta salad look so good. I love broccoli salad but have never added craisins. I am going to have to try that next time. Have a great day.
Ha! Of COURSE we would link up the same salad! #greatminds
I have been looking for a yummy pasta salad recipe and your recipe sounds delicious!! I think I will be making that for our 4th of July party. Have a great day!
Great salad picks! I have made a similar spinach salad with mandarin oranges and candied pecans. The pasta salad looks so easy and delicious. Have a good Tuesday!
Oh how very yum! That tortellini looks yum and never thought to do pepperoni with it!!
I totally haven't had a chance to look at all the post but saw the picture and was thinking as often happens great minds think alike!!!!
It is so yummy Jessica and everyone in my family loves it!
So yummy! It's definitely a crowd pleaser.
So yummy…this has me longing for salads instead of road trip food :).
For sure Michelle! I really burned myself out on salads for awhile but I've been craving them again lately
All so delish! Have a great day Jenna!
I love salads, I have a very similar strawberry salad that I make too, so easy and super yummy! Now I want a salad…:)
I LOVE that broccoli salad! Feel to free to make some soon! 😉
These salads looked so delicious, I'd gobble it up in a heartbeat!! YUM
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Oh girl all of these are right up my alley. They all look amazing and now it is almost 9:00 and I REALLY want something to eat. I blame you :P.
strawberry salad with pecans and goat cheese is my FAV!!!! so so so good
The strawberry salad looks amazing! My bestie is all into scrapbooking and used to go on weekend retreats but they never ate anything that good! Broccoli salad is a total favoite but I haven't made any since I tweaked my nutrition.
Headed to the lake house this weekend and was trying to come up with a make ahead salad to take…..think I will try this Creamy Broccoli Salad…..I am really trying to watch the carbs so I will also leave out the cranberries……gotta save my carbs for beer and wine…….
omg that strawberry salad has me drooling!
I seriously think I may have to make it today. It has been way too long since I've had it. Hope you have a super day Shaunacey!
Lord help me…I've seriously got to get a handle on myself. Summer is just the devil…I want to drink beer and eat ice cream and, well, I just end up wearing it. I swear I would look super cute right now if I was actually pregnant! haha
Oh Amanda, the lady that use to host our retreats was an amazing chef and she always had the best food with homemade rolls and homemade cinammon rolls. Yum
I think I'm going to have to make the strawberry today! Hope you have a super 4th Sarah!
Too funny! I am right there with ya girl!