Lunch Ideas, a collection of recipes that make lunchtime a pleasure.

Many of the salads may seem unusual, but they are also unusual-ly delicious. Each has a special flair. Some, like the Green Goddess, are chef- famous. Some are extra easy. Some take a little more doing and a little more daring. Are you looking for...

…an appetizer for a lunch time snack or a special family or company dinner?

Here you can find recipes that tell you exactly how to prepare salads and wonderful sauces.

I’ve found the best. Also look for crab, lobster, oyster, beef and ham specialties.

…a seafood salad on a hot summer day?

There’s a basic recipe you’ll want to rely on.

Then see all the tips to give a new twist on serving. Don’t get stumped on the what-do-we-eat problem.

The lunch ideas are here.

…a hearty salad like a chef or Caesar salad?

A meal in a bowl I call them. They make a fine lunch or supper, and go over so big with men who will often do the concocting. Try each of these hearty meals in a bowl. It’s one of the best way I know to finish up that holiday ham or turkey. The other is with company! Serve with mugs of hot tomato bullion, crisp garlic rounds, hot rolls and then offer up some coffee with banana cream pie.

...a really elegant chicken or turkey salad?

…a cool molded salad that offers something on the spectacular side?

There are some double-decker molded salads here like “Shrimp-Lime Double Decker” and “Lemony Salmon Tower”.

…pretty as a picture arrangements for salad plates and platters?

These are really cool masterpieces.

Have a salad meal on a sizzler of a day.

Chicken Buffet Molds are perfect for a porch lunch. Serve with sticks, slices, and rounds of cheese or even ham roll-ups, golden deviled eggs, little green onions, carrot curls and radish roses. Roll cool butter balls for each hot sugary blueberry muffin and offer them up with tall glasses of tinkling lemonade.

Fill platters with meat salads and fruit. Pass the bread and drinks – it’s a meal!

Go glamorous with meat and seafood appetizers like shrimp with hot sauce or beef in a tangy sour cream.

Go simple with a basic shrimp or tuna salad recipe and add special flourishes to give it a sophisticated twist. How about a shrimp salad recipe served in avocado cups? Perhaps a tuna salad recipe stuffed in tomato halves? Serve them as appetizers or as dinner salads.

You can also find a collection of recipes for chicken salad, ham salad or egg salad for wonderful sandwiches that will make lunchtime a pleasure.

Hot Chicken Salad Recipe
This recipe will please the hungriest hubby or a table full of toddlers. I have written three versions so you can use the one that appeals most to you or mix and match ingredients to come up with your very own favorite.

Smoked Salmon Recipe
Tart shimmering lemon gelatin accents the rich salmon flavor in this luscious molded salad. Cucumbers, celery, green pepper add the crunch. Relishes to accompany this star salad on the tray are anchovies, herring in sour cream, marinated shrimp, sardines, picked beets and sweet pickle slices.

Green Goddess Salad
Green Goddess Salad Dressing,this is a lovely classic recipe that has been altered with low fat ingredients to save you calories.

Chefs Salad Recipe
A hearty salad or a meal in a bowl; great with a hot mug of tomato soup.

Basic Chicken Salad Recipe
This is the best chicken salad sandwich recipe or great for stuffing tomatoes, followed by some flavorful ideas for variations.

Stuffed Tomato Recipe
Choose from several recipes to fill your tomato cups. Impress your family and friends with these simple recipe lunch ideas.

Crab Salad Recipe
Two recipes, one hot, one cold; you decide.

Egg Salad Sandwich Recipe
This is an ole fashioned Egg Salad Sandwich Recipe from my grandmothers era. The classic style and a toasted stuffed bread recipe for warm and delicious lunch ideas.

How To Make Tuna Salad
How to make tuna salad, several versions to suit all discriminating palates.

Chinese Chicken Salad Recipe
The dressing for this salad lunch idea is a delightful mix of sweet, sour, salty and spicy.This recipe is also called Green Mango Salad, a healthy way to wow your family.

Imitation Crab Salad Recipe
This is a very versatile recipe, which can be changed easily. The following version is made with bread filler.

Apricot Almond Easy Chicken Salad Recipe
Simply the best chicken salad recipe I've ever eaten.

Catalina Taco Salad
So easy even the kids can do it.

Tuna-Salad-Jell-O-Spanish
Create a Spanish Tuna Luncheon Platter.

Chicken Salad Recipes
Using chicken stock in these recipes really adds flavor, making it the best chicken salad recipe you may ever taste.

Doritos Taco Salad Recipe
A quick and easy version of a great taco salad.

Best Egg Salad Recipe
An all time favorite lunch recipe.

Sweet Pepper Salad
This is my version of this classic Middle Eastern salad.

Steak Salad Recipe
Sizzling steak served atop a bed of baby arugula,with gorgonzola cheese and a red wine vinaigrette. Perfect Lunch Ideas.

Simple Chicken Salad Recipe
Super quick to make and variations on the recipe are included.

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