I need to take a salad to a potluck Christmas dinner. Anyone have a good recipe other than for brocoli salad - someone else is bringing one of those? Many thanks!

I take mixed greens, slice up strawberries, Walnuts, and grapes and use the Raspberry walnut dressing. Wonderful salad.

One of my favorites is green pea salad.

Thaw 1 bag of frozen peas
Dice one medium onion
Cut up 8 oz. of cheddar cheese (cubes about size of peas)
dice 2 or 3 hard boiled eggs

Lightly toss all together

Add enough mayonnaise to make it creamy
Toss again
Chill for about 2 hours Then serve

This is like eating the yummy top layer of 7 layer salad!

Enjoy!

Sue

I have some really nice salads that I make but I don't really have exact quantities...let me tell you how I make it..I will try to put down quantities...but more or less won't ruin it...

3 Bean Salad

2 cups cooked green beans, 1 inch pieces
2 cans of other beans, like kidney, mixed, black
1/2 red pepper, ciced
1/2 purple onion, diced
Olive Oil and Balsamic....or Italian Dressing...or a combo of both...to taste...salt, pepper, oregano if you like

Delicious Pasta Salad

cook 1/2 package of tri colour fusilli or rotini pasta, cool
Add:
1/2 cup diced red pepper
1/2 cup onion, diced
1 small package of artichoke, drained
1/2 pitted black olives, drained
1/4 cup sun dried tomatoes in oil, cut into small pieces
a piece of feta. crumbled
Add Caesar Salad Dressing to taste...

You can omit anything you don't like...this is really good

Ramen Noodle Salad

Ingredients

2 boneless chicken breast halves, cooked and diced(sauteed in oriental oil adds flavor)
2 ounces almonds
2 green onions, chopped
1 tablespoon white sugar
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
1 (3 ounce) package ramen noodles, crushed
1/2 medium head cabbage, shredded
1/2 cup vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
3 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
Directions

Combine chicken, nuts, onion, sugar, sesame seeds, noodles and their flavor packet and cabbage in large bowl. In small bowl combine oil, salt, pepper and vinegar. Pour oil mixture over noodle mixture. Let stand overnight in refrigerator and serve.
Can use cole slaw mix in place of cabbage.Shredded red cabbage or diced red pepper adds color.

I like this....or a nice cole slaw...

Do you use a certain brand of dressing. I would rather try one that someone else likes, if I choose one on my own it would be the dud choice !!!

Cranberry Orange Salad with raspberry dressing

1 head iceburg lettuce chopped
1 small can manderine oranges drained save liquid for dressing
1/2 c chopped bell pepper
1/4 c chopped onions (optional)
1/2 c dried cranberries
1/2 c shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 c croutons

Put all of the above in a large bowl

Creamy Raspberry Dressing
1/2 c sour cream
1/2 c mayo
1/4 c raspberry jam or preserves
3 tbsp apple cider vinegr
liquid from oranges
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper

Put in a bowl and whisk until smooth pour over salad.

Add a diced ripe avocado to Pinkiris's pea salad, and you'll want to eat it all yourself!

Frozen cranberry salad
1 lb sack of cranberrys ....chopped fine
1 can of crushed pineapple.....drain as dry as you can
1 large cool whip
1 cup of chopped walnuts
1 sack of little marshmallows
mix together and put in 9 x 13 cake pan then pop it in your freezer
let thaw a little before serving.......have used whole berry cranberry sauce instead of fresh berries not quite the same but not bad

This one is festive, is served at a dinner theater I've been to and is VERY good! I says serves 8, but at a buffet, it'll serve a lot more.

Grape Salad (serves 8)

Ingredients
4 pounds seedless green grapes
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
1 (8 ounce) container sour cream
1/2 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 ounces chopped pecans
2 tablespoons brown sugar
Directions
Wash and dry grapes. In a large bowl, mix together the cream cheese, sour cream, sugar and vanilla. Add grapes and mix until evenly incorporated. Sprinkle with brown sugar and pecans, mix again and refrigerate until serving



This recipe is actually better the 2nd day…