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Soups and Salads

There is nothing like Soup on a cold winter day and Salad on a hot summer day. Soups and Salads are a mainstay on anyone’s menu. Find all the soups and salads on Dina’s Diner here. These are all my favorite soups and salads to make your dinners memorable. I have so many more to add!

Spinach, bacon, mushroom and Swiss cheese make the perfect combination for a delicious salad. Don't forget the homemade red wine vinegar because she is the star of the show.
Spinach, Bacon, Mushroom and Swiss Cheese Salad
Chicken Salad Croissant Sandwiches are so fresh made with all the chopped onions, celery and red grapes. Add a little mayo and miracle whip and then stuff into some mini croissants.
Chicken Salad Croissant Sandwiches
If there is anything inviting and sit by the fire worthy, it is this soup.  It starts with sautéed onions and garlic, then add in chicken broth.  Boil the cubed potatoes in this mixture and then add in the cooked sausage.  The cream and kale come last and then finish it off with a healthy serving of parmesan cheese.
Zuppa Toscana Soup
Onions, jalapeños and green chilies sautéed then add luscious spices like chili powder, cumin and lemon pepper. Top these off with garlic, tomato sauce and diced tomatoes. Simmer until all the flavors marry and then add Worcester sauce and cooked, shredded chicken. Top with grated, cheddar cheese, sour cream, slices of avocados and crispy corn tortilla strips.
Chicken Tortilla Soup
Iceberg lettuce with a mayonnaise/Miracle Whip salad dressing, then piled high with peas, hard boiled eggs, tomatoes, bits of bacon and grated Colby cheese. Put it in the refrigerator overnight and serve the next day.
Overnight Green Salad
Delicious veggies sautéed in butter, onions, celery, green bell pepper and leeks. Thicken with flour and add sherry wine, clam juice and chicken broth. Add spices and then add heavy cream. So good!
Market Street Clam Chowder (Copycat)
Macerated cranberries in sugar mixed with grated apples, chopped pecans and then folded into sweetened, whipped cream.
Cranberry Apple Holiday Salad
Delicious massaman Curry has chicken, carrots, potatoes, onions, cilantro, curry and a few other ingredients that make it absolutely irresistible. If you like massaman curry, you and your whole family will l love this!
Delicious Massaman Curry
Cooked petite tortellini pasta, mixed with fresh broccoli florets, ripe tomatoes, artichoke hearts and parmesan cheese and tossed in Italian Salad Dressing mixed with a little mayonnaise.
Tortellini Pasta Salad
A bed of Romaine lettuce piled high with red and orange bell peppers, small diced celery, ripe tomatoes and fresh avocados. Then add fresh cooked shrimp and a beautiful balsamic vinaigrette.
Shrimp Salad
Ripe, chopped avocados with grapefruit segments on a bed of Romaine lettuce. Now sprinkle on some candied walnuts and dress with a grapefruit salad dressing.
Grapefruit Avocado Salad
BBQ Chicken Salad is easy and quick and is made with ingredients you already have in your pantry and refrigerator.
BBQ Chicken Salad
Blended tomatillos, jalapeños, mayonnaise, sour cream, buttermilk and dry ranch mix is the perfect dressing for any salad, taco or burrito.
Creamy Tomatillo Dressing (Cafe Rio Dressing)
Delicious hamburger, tomatoes and a bunch of spices simmered together for hours to make the perfect chili.
Dina’s Chili
Tender cooked wild rice with onions, celery, carrots, chicken broth and cooked chicken then mixed with a little half and half.
Wild Rice Chicken Soup
A bed of spring greens topped with fresh Anjou pear and red raspberries then sprinkled with feta cheese topped with a red wine vinaigrette.
Raspberry Pear Salad
Frank's Red Hot Sauce is a staple at my house. Everyone loves chicken wings baked in the oven and then dunked in this wonderful sauce. One day, I thought, "Why not make a salad out of the same ingredients?" I loaded up a plate with beautiful, crisp Romaine lettuce, piled on some roasted chicken, added matchstick carrots and diced celery and then topped it with Blue Cheese crumbles.
Buffalo Chicken Salad
Blackberries and mandaring oranges (Halloween colors) on a bed of greens with pistachios and dried cranberries (Christmas colors) and Feta sprinkled on top.
Halloween Christmas Mashup Salad
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