Easy summer salads do not need dozens of hard to get ingredients or heavy bottled sauces. Go light and use a few good quality vegetables, well combined with a little well-chosen meat, fish, or dairy, (quality over quantity) and a simple but delicious homemade dressing. For quick tasty summer salad, make it quick, make it light but make it taste sublime!

Easy summer salads are way to go, now that winter blues are fading into distance and salad days are here. The best salads are light, bright and easy to prepare.

After all who wants to spend hours slaving away in kitchen when friends are round for lunch, garden is in bloom and wine is chilled and ready to pour. But before you start to cook you save a lot of energy by buying right ingredients for a simple salad. That way you don’t need heavy bottled sauces and dressings to make a great flavor

Do you really want to take a beautiful crisp summer salad and soak it in a mixture of fat, sugar, salt and chemicals? If you start off with great food and don’t do too much to it you don’t need all these strong tastes as you still have great food.

All you need is to combine it well so that flavors work together, have a nice crunchy texture and add a little light dressing to set it all off, and let taste buds do rest Freshness is, as in all cooking, way to a good salad. Don’t take what supermarkets give you. Although it’s easier to pick up ready packed tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, bell peppers etc.