Easy Summer Salads

Hot weather calls for lighter food, and fresh salads are the answer. This collection runs from simple vegetable bowls to heartier plates with cheese, poultry or seafood — everyday options and a few worth serving to guests.

Pork with Blackberries and Salad Greens

A warm slice of pork loin, dusted with toasted sesame seeds and Sichuan pepper and paired with fresh blackberries -…

Salad with Pan-Fried Sheep's Cheese and Spinach

The contrast of sweet chilled watermelon and hot pan-fried sheep's cheese — that's what makes this salad unexpected.…

Peach and Cream Cheese Pissaladiere Tartlets

These open-faced puff pastry tartlets recall the classic Provencal pissaladiere, but in a sweet, summery rendition. A…

Vegetable Salad with Sardines

A bright, seasonal salad where canned sardines meet crisp young turnip, sweet tomatoes, and juicy cucumbers. No…

Grilled Vegetable Salad

This is a salad with a smoky edge: every vegetable goes onto the grill first, so the eggplant, zucchini, and fennel…

Mango, Shrimp, Chili, and Lime Salad

A fresh salad where sweet mango meets spicy tiger shrimp, cool cucumber, and buttery avocado. The shrimp are briefly…

Caramelized Pear Salad with Goat Cheese and Strawberries

This salad sits right on the line between dessert and starter: hot caramelized pear meets cool pear sorbet, while…

Green Salad with Blue Cheese

This salad pulls together a handful of classic Italian flavors: salty Parma ham, sharp blue cheese, and sweet pear. The…

Mediterranean Salad with Asparagus, Fig, and Gorgonzola

This salad brings together four temperamental ingredients – blue cheese, fig, orange, and hazelnut – that rarely get…

Olivier Salad (Russian Salad)

A holiday table without Olivier salad is almost impossible to imagine. This is the dish that gathers family around one…

Asparagus and Zucchini Salad

A warm grilled salad in which young green asparagus takes the lead in spring. It's joined by grill-striped slices of…

Roasted Vegetable Salad

Vegetables usually don't take kindly to long cooking, but eggplant is the exception: to coax out all its flavor, you…