August 31, 2010 – 8:39 pm | by admin

Each day this week we’ll round up our favorite no-to-minimal-labor recipes for your Labor Day festivities this weekend. Yesterday we shared 10 appetizers, and today it’s salad time. These are easy-peasy—not much work beyond chopping and tossing a few ingredients together. Greek Salad Skewers: Fresh, flavorful, pretty, and they require no heating implement whatsoever. Plus: It’s food on a stick. Who doesn’t love food on a stick? Broccoli Salad with Bacon, Chives, and Tomato: Bacon is a natural pairing with broccoli, and in this Jamie Oliver recipe, you blanch the broccoli first for a minute to give it that bright, just-barely crunchiness. Jambon-Wrapped Grilled Endive: This isn’t technically a salad, but does involve endive. Tarragon Crab Salad: You can use a good-quality canned crab here instead of dealing with the steaming and ripping-apart of fresh ones. That said, you could probably find a fishmonger that will do all that work for you—but the canned variety really does work in a pinch. Asian-Mediterranean Cucumber Slaw Salad: This slaw is inspired as much by Japan as Greece. It marinates in soy sauce and white vinegar, with …
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