Salad recipes

Use any your favorite salad dressing to make this potato salad. We love creamy dressing or sweet-sour dressing the best. You can enjoy this delicious salad right after it's made, or let chill in the refrigerator for a couple of hours or overnight.

A scrumptious salad made with hot chili peppers and monterey jack cheese that is perfect for a summer barbecue!

Sweet and sour carrot salad: tender carrot coins, onion, and green pepper marinated in a tangy-sweet tomato dressing. The make-ahead 'copper pennies' salad that only gets better as it sits.

New England potato salad with sour cream dressing uses a tangy base of sour cream, vinegar, mustard, and garlic instead of mayonnaise. Loaded with hard-boiled eggs, celery, and sliced olives.

Before winter shows up on your front door, try this scrumptious macaroni salad that goes perfect with grilled salmon.

Gumdrop fruit salad: a retro church-potluck classic with pineapple, grapes, marshmallows, gumdrops, and pecans bound in whipped cream and a cooked pineapple-lemon dressing.

Homestead salad with mixed vegetables and kidney beans in a cooked sweet vinegar dressing with mustard. Make a day ahead for the best flavor.

Marshmallow fruit salad with cherries, mandarin oranges, pineapple, bananas, and whipped cream in a cooked custard dressing. Overnight soak for deep flavor.

Old-fashioned banana salad with a tangy cooked vinegar and egg dressing, topped with crunchy ground peanuts. A Southern potluck favorite that serves a crowd and keeps beautifully in the fridge.

German-style tomato salad with a tangy vinegar, oil, and Worcestershire dressing seasoned with basil and thyme. Chilled and served on lettuce leaves.

German-style cold potato salad dressed with vinegar, mustard, and dill seed. No mayo, no eggs. Naturally creamy from reserved starchy potato water.

Sweet and sour potato salad with hard-boiled eggs, sweet pickles, and a homemade cooked dressing of egg yolks, vinegar, and mayonnaise. Old-school Pennsylvania Dutch picnic salad.

Three-bean salad packed with green beans, kidney beans, chickpeas, corn, celery, carrots, and pimientos in a sweet-and-tangy vinegar dressing. The classic potluck make-ahead. Keeps in the fridge for weeks and gets better with time.

Potato salad with a tangy egg yolk dressing made by mashing hard-boiled yolks into vinegar, mustard, and mayonnaise. Egg whites get chopped into the salad.

A colorful five-bean salad with green beans, lima beans, kidney beans, wax beans, and chickpeas tossed in a tangy sweet vinegar dressing with green pepper, celery, and green onions. Best made overnight.

Crunchy ramen cabbage salad with toasted almonds, sesame seeds, and a tangy ramen seasoning vinaigrette. A no-cook potluck favorite with addictive crunch in every bite.