The ingredients are year-round, but the spirit is spring-like, and once your garden comes in, the ingredients will be fresh.


This first one has approximate ingredients because I winged it.

Pea and Cheese Salad

Frozen peas, thawed but not warm
Bread and butter pickles, chopped fine (or pickle relish)
Cooked bacon crumbles
Diced cheddar cheese
Mayonnaise or similar salad dressing

Combine all this. You can put finely diced onion in it if you want.

Potato Salad with Fresh Vegetables

6 cooked potatoes, diced
1/2 cup celery, diced fine
1 small onion, diced fine
10 radishes, diced fine
1 cucumber, seeds scooped out, diced
1/4 green pepper, diced
Salt and pepper
1/4 cup salad dressing or mayonnaise
1/2 cup sour cream
Hard-cooked egg for garnish, sliced
Paprika

Combine and garnish with the sliced hard-cooked egg and paprika.

This last one is more of a winter or fall salad, but it sounds so festive.

Cranberry Waldorf Salad

1 cup cubed red-skinned apples
1/2 cup diced celery
1/2 cup cubes cream cheese
1/2 cup walnuts or other nuts, coarsely chopped
Mayonnaise
1 can jellied cranberry sauce

Mix the apple, celery, cheese, and nuts with mayonnaise to moisten. Pile spoonfuls of the mixture in mounds on sliced rounds of cranberry jelly. Serve on lettuce.