10 No-Labor Labor Day Salads

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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Summer Salad

This salad is so pretty and an easy fast fix for one of those hot summer evenings when the produce is overflowing on the counter . But most important it is on the DIET !!! Super Summer Salad • (1 pound) loaf Italian bread • 1 cup chopped tomatoes • 1 cup cucumber – peeled, seeded and chopped • 1 cup chopped red onion • 1 large yellow pepper seeded and chopped • 1 clove garlic, minced • 2 cups chopped fresh basil • 1/4 cup olive oil • 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar Directions 1. In a a large salad bowl, combine tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, pepper, garlic, basil . Add enough olive oil and vinegar to lightly coat, toss and serve. 2. Pull apart or chop the bread into bite-size pieces. Do not add bread until ready to serve 3. When ready to serve Add bread, olive oil and vinegar to lightly coat, toss and serve.

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Cook the Book: Corn, Tomato, and Lobster Salad

From Recipes [Photograph: Caroline Russock] After a few weeks of working with beautiful summer produce I’m starting to think that it’s almost too easy to cook this time of year. The fruits and vegetables that I’ve brought home recently taste so good that there’s no need to mess around with complicated recipes and techniques that would heat up the kitchen more than necessary. That being said, it’s no surprise that I have been eating a lot of salads lately, and those salads have been comprised of mostly corn, tomatoes, and greens lightly dressed with nothing more than salt, pepper, lemon juice, and olive oil. I was delighted to come across this Corn, Tomato, and Lobster Salad in Farm to Fork by Emeril Lagasse since it was a fancy riff on the salad that I had happily been enjoying for weeks. And the addition of lobster to already fantastic summer corn and tomatoes couldn’t be anything short of magical. Lobster might seem like the ultimate indulgence but in the this salad a single lobster goes a long way. It’s poached in a heady broth of white wine, fresh tomatoes, onions, and tarragon, and then placed in an ice…

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Hot Dog of the Week: Dapper Dog Cart in Philadelphia

[ Original artwork and photographs: Hawk Krall ] After working in restaurants forever and spending the last year eating and thinking about hot dogs pretty much 24 hours a day, it’s been a rumbling in the back of my mind that I should just open up a damn late-night hot dog stand already. Philadelphia’s lack of eclectic, gourmet, or late-night hot dogs (or basically any mobile vendors open after 5pm at all) is a giant hole just waiting to be filled. Too bad these guys beat me to it. The Dapper Dog cart comes out for lunch a few days a week, and every Friday and Saturday night on the bar-choked corner of 2nd and Poplar Street in the city’s Northern Liberties section. The menu is total drunk food, the kind of thing I might try to make at home after 12 beers and maybe a funny-tasting cigarette: hot dogs topped with pepperoni, tomato sauce, asparagus, mac and cheese, fried eggs. They also do all sorts of specials, such as the mashed potato dog above or a “Greek hot dog” which is basically the contents of a Greek…

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We Weed-Whackers Stick Together: Pasta Salad with Feta & Dandelion

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Serious Salad: Julia Child’s Vinaigrette Dressing

[ Flickr: unforth ] He-llo Serious Eaters! It’s Jooo-lia Child! I hope you don’t mind my borrowing your Serious Salad correspondent’s account here, but I couldn’t resist nipping in to say hello and talk about salads. Just to remind you, in the wake of celebrating my Beef Bourguignon, I also did enjoy the occasional classic salad, despite my jest that diet food was what you should eat while waiting for the steak to cook! In fact, one of my earliest food memories was seeing the king (or should I say emperor) of salads made by its creator Caesar Cardini! It was quite dramatic as a nine-year-old child to see Caesar make his eponymous salad with a flourish of tossed lettuce leaves and hear the smart crack of the egg against the bowl. Of course, it was made with only the best Parmesan cheese—none of that dreadful talcum powder in a green can! Salads should be enjoyed: the French understand that a salad should not be a penitent meal for the faddish and fat-phobic. So, for your salad-making pleasure, I’m sharing with all of you once again my favorite vinaigrette dressing, a simple…

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Market Matters- Squash Blossom and Ricotta Salad

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Video: Barack Obama’s BBQ

According to College Humor , if Barack Obama threw a backyard barbecue party he’d have a lot of pissed off guests whose unfulfilled wishes include two burgers on the same plate, potato salad for everyone without having to pay for other people’s potato salad, and more action against ants in punch bowls. Watch the video after the jump. Barack Obama’s BBQ

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Smoky Black Bean and Sweet Potato Salad (& Winner!)

This is a new recipe that I quite love – Smoky Black Bean and Sweet Potato Salad .

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The Food Lab: Potato Salad Done Right

It’s time for another round of The Food Lab. Got a suggestion for an upcoming topic? Email Kenji here , and he’ll do his best to answer your queries in a future post. Become a fan of The Food Lab on Facebook for play-by-plays on future kitchen tests and recipe experiments. Perfect Potato Salad. [Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] Classic Potato Salad Light, tangy, and flavorful potato salad. Here’s the recipe! » Potato salad. Big deal, right ? It’s kinda like background music in a restaurant—something to keep you and your fellow diners distracted and occupied during the awkward silences before the main course arrives. You put an obligatory spoonful on your paper plate and poke at it with a plastic fork until the burgers are done. At least that’s what most potato salad is. The problem is, it’s such a simple dish that most of the time, it’s made without thought. Boil the potatoes, toss them with some mayo, add a few dollops of whatever condiment catches your fancy, and toss it in a bowl. But a really well-constructed potato salad can be as interesting as the burger it precedes ( and believe me: I love burgers ). Tangy, salty, and sweet with a texture that’s simultaneously creamy, crunchy, and…

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