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Salads, Sides

Early Summer Picnic Salads

Last Weekend, I went on a picnic to Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine. In typical me fashion, I volunteered to bring the food, and decided to make a few salads, in addition to wraps and fruit and cookies. I’m going to combine them all here into one blog post. The types are:

Walnut Pesto Ditalini Pasta Salad
Springtime Potato Salad
Cucumber Radish and Feta Salad, and
Middle Eastern Barley Salad with Pomegranate and Pistachios

They were all a big hit and I would definitely recommend them for any picnic or BBQ potluck that you might be having this summer. None have mayo, so no chance of them going off, although the Cucumber Radish and Feta Salad does wilt fairly quickly. The Middle Eastern Barley Salad with Pomegranate and Pistachios is a very unique one and may not be to everyone’s taste but we all thought it was yummy.
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Appetizers/Starters, Dinner, Lunch, Salads, Sides

Bacon Honey Mustard New Potato Salad

Normally, I stick to a very specific type of potato salad, which is the southern German (Swabian or Bavarian) styles. That for me is the definition of potato salad and yes, we ate it a lot growing up. That said, every once in a while, I will branch out and when I saw a similar recipe to the one that I created here, I thought I would go for it. Who can go wrong with bacon?!? Quite yummy, but definitely remember to serve this one at room temperature as cold bacon fat (which is part of the dressing) isn’t very appetizing.
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