Crunchy Ranch Salad with Crispy Chicken

Easy summer meals & a bonus recipe

I love being associated with food memories. Whether I taught you how to make a perfectly chopped salad or you served bite-size cupcakes as your wedding cake, I LOVE being a part of it. These memories can be big or small, but all of them (I hope!) are delicious. 

So here’s another reason I hope you’ll think of me in the kitchen: turning your leftovers into salads. This can transform any vegetable into something truly amazing, while giving you a quick, nourishing meal that makes space in your fridge. It’s a two-in-one! I actually reverse-engineered one of this week’s meals to give you the same leftovers I had to make breakfast the next day. I hope you love it just as much as I did—and join me in making leftover salads a thing. 

The rest of the menu highlights gorgeous seasonal produce and gives you the perfect bite of crunchy, refreshing salad that tastes best this time of year when temperatures are at their highest.

Here’s what we’re cooking this week:

• Crunchy Ranch Salad with Crispy Chicken

• Steamed Veggies & Crispy Salmon (plus Leftovers Salad)

• Corn & Tomato One-Pot Pasta

taste the rainbow

Crunchy Ranch Salad with Crispy Chicken

ranch salad, meet chicken schnitzel (not in a salad mood? try it with green goddess instead)