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Labor Day weekend cookout: best potato salad recipes, vegetable salad recipes, and salad dressings

Summer vegetables are running a month late this year in Seattle farmers markets.
Summer vegetables are running a month late this year in Seattle farmers markets.
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C.Cancler

Summer has been mighty short this year in Seattle. Crops at Seattle farmers markets are running about one month later than normal. No matter; those of us who have lived for a while in the Pacific Northwest are used to the vagaries of the weather. Weather is what we talk about the most, preferably over a table of delicious foods. These salads are great with a variety of grilled foods, indoors or out!

Potato Salad recipes

Peruvian Causa may be the best potato salad recipe you will ever make

Cabbage and potato salad with hot bacon dressing

Deconstructed BLT potato salad

Vegetable Salad recipes

3 best, easy cold salads for summer vegetables featuring tomato, cucumber, and onion

Cauliflower salad with bacon and sun-dried tomato salad dressing

Cauliflower salad a la polonaise ("Polish style")

Sizzling parsley dresses cauliflower and hazelnuts in this easy salad recipe

Fresh corn and tomato salad

Easy tomato, sweet onion, and feta cheese salad

Kohlrabi and mizuna salad is a Northwest take on a Japanese tradition

Mixed vegetable relish is a colorful condiment for hot dogs, burgers, and grilled foods

Wilted red cabbage salad with goat cheese and hazelnuts

Salad dressing recipes

Recipes for salad dressings; a primer on making vinaigrettes

Easy Thousand Island style homemade salad dressing

Asian-style vinaigrette dressing for green salad

Asian-style Cole slaw dressing

Delicious onion bread that goes with everything

Simple bread recipe for twisted dinner rolls with onions

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Carole Cancler has enjoyed a lifelong love affair with cooking. A Seattle native, she inherits her mother's Slovenian farm legacy, has explored food markets in 20 countries, and especially loves seasonal soups and salads. A freelance technical writer specializing in business and technical...

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