Salads Are An Obvious Way To Eat Healthy

Salads are an obvious way to eat healthy- as long as you don't drench it in creamy,processed salad dressing! This year, challenge yourself to make your own dressings by combining olive oil, lemons, garlic, various spices and anything healthy/fresh you might have around the kitchen. Try some of these recipes that will make you feel it's still summer
When tomato and fresh basil is THIS good, I hate to do anything other than enjoy it fresh in a salad. My Basil Vinaigrette is simple to make, takes 5 minutes in a blender. You’ll love it. I promise.

First, the Basil Vinaigrette ingredients: fresh basil leaves, shallots (substitute with onion or garlic), sea salt, a couple slices of fresh chili pepper, good olive oil and a vinegar.First you gotta chop up the shallots (or substitute with onion or garlic) and the pepper in the blender.
Next goes in the torn basil leaves, salt, vinegar and 2 tablespoons of water. You need that liquid to get things moving in the blender.Let that baby whirl while you slowly drizzle in the olive oil. Look at that gorgeous mossy green!Once it calms down a bit, the color turns bright vivid green.Since I’m stacking this Caprese Salad up, I want to make sure that the bottom layer (which uses the bottom of the tomato) is flat — so that the whole stack doesn’t fall over. So lop off the round butt of the tomato so that it has a flat ass to sit on.