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A healthy and delicious way to welcome the new season, these salads feature our favorite fall ingredients and flavors.
Fall is almost here! Although we're having a little warm spell, the trees here are beginning to turn red and yellow. One of our favorite things about the changing seasons is welcoming new flavors and ingredients. A salad is a fresh, delicious way to showcase fall produce and flavors. Any of these salads would pair perfectly with chicken, pork, steak or seafood and you have a complete meal. Enjoy!
This vibrant fall salad is the perfect way to embrace autumn. It's with loaded healthy, seasonal ingredients and a fabulous pumpkin dressing.
This delicious, healthy Arugula Roasted Grape Salad makes a wonderful side or a fabulous main dish served with chicken, shrimp, salmon.
Everyone loves this Roasted Butternut Salad - it's super healthy but has an unbelievably delicious splurge. Are you ready? Candied bacon!
This Arugula, Pomegranate and Pear Salad is perfect for fall with pears, poms, red grapes and a delicious poppy seed apple cider dressing.
Black Bean Sweet Potato Salad- With its spicy honey-lime dressing, this healthy, hearty salad is perfect for a vegetarian meal, or as a wonderful side to grilled chicken, shrimp or steak.
Apple Cranberry Spinach Salad with Honey Cider Dressing- an insanely delicious and super healthy salad - perfect for any get together with family and friends!
Golden Beet and Butternut Quinoa Salad is a meal in itself or a perfect side. This healthy salad is so pretty and super delicious too!
This Asian-inspired, Quinoa Sweet Potato Salad is super healthy, can be prepped ahead and simply bursts with bright, fresh, delicious flavor!
Although cool evenings often begin the call for comfort food, fall can also be a time for healthy, delicious autumn-inspired salads. Or both! Make a grocery list and keep these seasonal salads in the rotation over the coming weeks!
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Is there such a thing as a salad emergency???? I was asked to bring the salad to a dinner in two days - dinner is kielbasa. I'm sure it will be served with rolls and sauerkraut. Chris, I immediately turned to your blog because I have made (and loved) so many of your salads and dressings. What do you think would pair with kielbasa? I'm thinking Black Bean Sweet Potato from this post. Something hardy to stand up to the entree. Any suggestions?
Haha! There can definitely be a salad emergency, Linda Jean! And it sounds like you have a bit of a challenged. I thinkg the black bean salad would be wonderful or this one would be great: https://thecafesucrefarine.com/fall-salad-with-pumpkin-maple-vinaigrette/
or this one would be nice:
https://thecafesucrefarine.com/barley-and-candied-bacon-roasted-butternut-salad/
They're all hearty but healthy and would pair nicely with kielbasa 🙂
Hope that helps
Thank you for your input! Three good choices. I have your Pumpkin Maple Vinaigrette on my counter because I served it last weekend on a salad I threw together. Of course, everyone loved the dressing - you are never miss! I am going to pour over these choices and get working on it. Everyone seems to love a salad with pomegranates and something orange at this time of year - so festive! Candied bacon has got to always be a hit. I'll let you know how this goes. THANK YOU!
You're welcome, Linda! Have fun!
Your salad was the hit of the dinner and, fortunately, my friend is a very generous hostess who wasn't at all bothered that the side I brought was getting all the attention. I made your candied bacon, toasted walnuts and maple dijon vinaigrette. I actually made the barley, but then didn't use it because I remembered someone couldn't eat gluten. I made your caramelized sweet potatoes. Put everything together with mostly romaine and some spring mix, pomegranate seeds and feta cheese. When I went to get seconds, it was gone! Thank you for making me look like a star! I'm sharing your recipes and website with everyone who was there. I think the candied bacon put everything over the top and it was SO EASY to make. Cannot thank you enough!
Awesome! Thanks so much, Linda for sharing your review! I'm so happy it went so well!
Chris, I LOVE your pumpkin maple dressing and so
does anyone I make it for, thank you!
Also, I made the butternut squash soup this
weekend for a starter, a fall party I gave. I loved it as well as
Everyone else. Just one question, what could I do
to add more body to this delicious soup? (Flour sleet, corn starch?). Or perhaps more cream? It was sensational
Though, the flavors were fantastic.
Also, on your Pinterest, you are now community. How do I search for any particular recipe? Right now I have to guess
Where they may be. I must be missing something?
Thank you again, LOVE your Pinterest boards!!
Sincerely,
Sheryl Salvatore
Hi Sheryl, I'm so happy you have enjoyed both the pumpkin dressing and the butternut soup. Thanks for sharing your results. If you wanted the soup a little thicker you could add cornstarch or just cut back on the amount of broth in the recipe. Or you could just simmer it a little longer.
Regarding Pinterest, if you're looking for a particular recipe, just type in "Cafe Sucre Farine" and then whichever recipe you are looking for.
I've been enjoying fall salads for the last week so this is right up my alley! All gorgeous and now I can't decide which one to make first. Love all your dressings too 🙂 Pinned!
Thanks so much, Tricia!
Gorgeous set of salads! I can’t wait to try them - they are so beautiful and enticing! Such great flavors, too!
Dear Chris and Scott -
Your photography is always ...well, delicious! But these salads are the best of the best. They are breathtakingly beautiful to behold. They stimulate the imagination and memory so wonderfully. Thank you for your faithfulness in bringing beauty and goodness into the world!
Beautiful fall salads Chris!