Cosi signature salad. Copycat Recipe on the brown eyed baker blog.

Most people don’t want a salad on thanksgiving.

This is a good one if you like beets.

https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/beet-blue-cheese-salad

I love a salad with thanksgiving dinner - it is a great light and bright counterpoint to all of the heavy and carby traditional sides. My two cents is to make a salad that capitalizes on that, and so don’t add roasted squash, sweet potatoes, etc to this particular salad (I ordinarily love those in salads).

I like to make one of these-

arugula with halved cherry tomatoes (or replace tomatoes with shaved fennel), shaved parmesan, toasted pine nuts, tossed in a lemon vinagrette

or

mixed spring greens with thinly sliced honeycrisp or granny smith apples, craisins (or, even better, fresh pomegrante), thinly sliced red onion (let the sliced onion soak in water for 15 min to mellow the bite, be sure to pat dry before incorporating into the salad), toasted almond slivers, some crumbled blue cheese or cheddar (often I leave out the cheese entirely), tossed in vinagrette (evoo, apple cider vinegar, dash of maple syrup, s/p)

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/winter-slaw-2179526

Or I get the bag of kale/cranberries/etc. salad that all of the stores have and it's a pretty close approximation and a whole lot easier.

Squash, beets, tart apple, craisins or dried cherries, and chèvre over baby kale and spinach. Dress with a simple vinaigrette - balsamic, olive oil, honey, garlic, Dijon.

Anonymous wrote:Greens
granny smith apple
dried cherries or dried cranberry
walnuts
chevre

+1

You can buy this exact salad (minus the apple) at Balduccis in a size to feed a group of people. But it’ll cost you almost $20.

Butter lettuce
Apple
Thin sliced onion
Toasted walnuts
Blue cheese
Mustard vinaigrette

I love this simple, but so good, fall salad!

I just like something crispy and tart. Like romaine with thinly shaved celery, fennel and granny smith apple. Apple cider vinegar dressing.

Go to Costco. Buy the package of shredded kale/green with cranberries, pepitas and poppyseed dressing. Add dried cherries and extra Brianna’s brand dressing for an extra 60 seconds worth of effort to be fancy.

I was thinking a butternut (or any) squash salad. Maybe something like delicata squash looks really beautiful when roasted and it's crazy easy (no peeling!).

Roast some butternut squash. Cut into small cubes. Mix with salad greens of your choice, slivered celery, make an apple cider vinaigrette. Can add nuts or parmesan cheese if you like, or red onion.

Greens
granny smith apple
dried cherries or dried cranberry
walnuts
chevre

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