Sometimes lunch is just lunch.
It’s less about the tiny bowls, and the tenderly placed napkin, and the step-by-step chopping of each and every vegetable.
Sometimes it’s just lunch. I think that’s a relief for all of us… right?
This salad is an extra chopped rendition of most things currently in my refrigerator: romaine and spinach, snap peas and celery, lovely ripe strawberries, bacon left over from the Waffle BLTs, toasted pecans, and goat cheese crumbles.
Happy Friday, friends! Let’s salad easy today.
Strawberry Salad with extra cheese and bacon and pink wine, too! Some weeks require an extra dose of ease and pink-hues. I’m glad this is that week!
Spinach and Strawberry Chopped Salad
makes 1 serving
Let’s measure this recipe in handfuls because no self-respecting salad was ever measured with actual measuring cups.
1 large handful well-chopped romaine lettuce
1 large handful well-chopped spinach leaves
1 celery stalk, finely chopped
about 8 snap peas, chopped
about 6 strawberries, finely diced
1 to 2 slices of bacon, finely chopped
1 small handful toasted pecans, chopped
1 small handful goat cheese crumbles
half a lemon
olive oil
salt and pepper
Toss all of the salad ingredients together in a medium bowl.
Top with lemon juice, a good sprinkling of olive oil, salt and pepper. Toss to combine and serve immediately.
Tahny Lowry
I could eat this for lunch AND dinner any day! one of my favorite salads, this is beautiful.
Katrina @ Warm Vanilla Sugar
Ha! Totally agree. Big handfuls are totally necessary in salads.
Taylor
Yummy!! This looks delicious! I love when everything is chopped up really fine and thrown into a salad!
xoxo
Taylor
sundiegoeats
Thought this was exactly the salad I had today but what I thought were dates was bacon in your case! Close enough ;)
Xochi Navarro
That does look tasty! Happy Friday Joy!
Vicky
Oh!!! it looks delicious!
Morgan
I’m a total strawberry lover so this is perfect for those summer days where you just need something light! So excited to try!
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Mallory
Happy Friday!
lizytishknits
Looks so yummy and refreshing! I was looking for a new salad recipe. :)
cbcreates
Love chopped salads and this one is simple genius. I have some (mild) feta crumbles to use up. Yea.
Hannah
love the colours in that salad! I just started this blog and would love some recommendations – I’m still trying to figure it all out :) xx
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dani
I wish my refrigerator was full of the things that are in your refrigerator!
Have a lovely weekend, Joy!
Rachel
I am so glad that I’m not the only person who puts strawberries in my salad!
William @News4Foodies
“Sometimes lunch is just lunch.” Heresy! Just kidding :)
I love simple, easy to throw together recipes like this one. The strawberries sound particularly wonderful, especially now that summer is pretty much in full swing.
I’m not particularly fond of olive oil from a taste perspective. I know it’s mostly supposed to be good for you. I like a oil/vinegar combination as salad dressing, so I’ve been searching for an olive oil alternative. I recently tried almond oil, but it’s still not just right.
Would you be so kind as to suggest a different kind of oil? What do you like on salads besides olive oil? Thanks for the great post.
joythebaker
maybe you’d enjoy a more mild oil like canola? have you tried pistachio oil? that’s out there, but i think it’s delicious!
thefoodieteen
looks good! i’m adore strawberries in salad – they add such a nice flavour! have a wonderful weekend, joy!