Salad

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Blueberry Corn Chicken Salad

How beauitful/scrumptious looking is this salad?

P-Dub knows what she's doing.

Antioxidant Orchard Salad

I've been reorienting my food choices lately to focus on vegetables and fruits. I'm also taking a break from soda, sugar, caffeine, butter, oil and bread, just to prove to myself that I have indomitable will-power. Turns out I do, good for me. It's been tough, but I feel great.

This salad is one of my new favorite things. Anything with berries is the best of both worlds in my mind (the two worlds being "tasty food world" and "healthy food world.")

Antioxidant Orchard Salad
1-2 heads of Romaine lettuce, (a bit of spinach is good too)
1/3 cucumber, sliced, then quartered
1 cup red grapes, sliced length-wise
1 cup blueberries
1 cup sliced strawberries
1 stick of celery, sliced thin
Handful of sliced almonds

Top with fat free vinaigrette. Balsamic is my favorite.

Vertical Pear Salad

This is very next on my "to try: very ambitious" list...

Vertical Pear Salad


4 smooth skinned pears
2-3 cups watercress
1/2 cup toasted pecans
1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
vinaigrette dressing
honey for drizzling
lemon juice


Cut pears horizontally into 3 or 4 slices depending on the size of your pears. Use a paring knife to cut out the cores. The pieces should look like O’s. Leave the stem on the pop piece. Brush slices of pear with lemon juice to keep it from browning.

Toss watercress, pecans, and blue cheese with dressing until coated.

Reassemble the pear, vertically, with the watercress salad in between each slice. Once assembled, drizzle with honey, and serve!