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    Salad Recipes

    This blog celebrates all the fresh and local bounty of the seasons harvest! And making a creatively colorful and wild delicious salad is an amazing way to celebrate all this produce! From this refreshingly sweet and salty Watermelon & Feta Salad to these Summer Salad ideas, here you’ll find epic salad recipes inspiring you to live a more healthful plant filled life!

    very colorful tomato and melon salad topped with basil, spices and vinaigrette.

    California Summer Rainbow Salad

    Watermelon feta salad with colorful red, pink, orange, yellow, green and white melon and feta cubes, topped with fresh herbs and spices. Overhead shot.

    Watermelon Feta Salad

    strawberry burrata salad with little gems and basil; overhead shot

    Strawberry Salad with Burrata

    Peaches and burrata salad with basil and vinaigrette, all done; overhead shot.

    Peach Burrata Salad

    Tahini Caesar salad with walnut breadcrumbs and radishes on a black plate

    Tahini Caesar Salad

    Close up shot: Peach Salad with Burrata & Crispy Bacon, all assembled, overhead shot.

    Peach Salad with Burrata and Crispy Prosciutto

    up close and overhead shot of orange and fennel salad

    Orange & Fennel Salad

    farmers market salad ingredients, all raw and un-prepped.

    Farmers Market Salad

    Overhead shot of the final roasted beet salad with yogurt, blood oranges, hazelnuts, and tarragon.

    Roasted Beet & Blood Orange Salad

    Sweet potato salad with argulula, feta, dried cranberries, red onions, pepitas, parsley and a maple-lime vinaigrette, overhead shot.

    Sweet Potato Salad with Feta ~ Maple-Lime Vinaigrette

    Summer salad with corn, asparagus, cheese, figs, avocado, tomatoes, basil and a vinaigrette.

    Summer Salad Ideas

    Side angle shot of the gyro salad with tzatziki, pickled red onions, pita chips, little gems, feta, pine nuts and fresh herbs.

    Gyro Salad 

    Caramelized Fig & Prosciutto Salad with hazelnuts, basil, blue cheese and arugula. Overhead shot. Up close.

    Caramelized Fig Salad with Prosciutto and Blue Cheese

    Overhead shot of the spring salad on white dinner plate.

    Spring Pea and Carrot Salad with Carrot Top Pesto

    Plum & Cucumber Salad with Roasted Ginger Vinaigrette all done, topped with cilantro and crispy shallots.

    Plum & Cucumber Salad with Roasted Ginger Vinaigrette

    Blood Orange and fennel salad with chicories, pistachios, shredded cheese, mint and shallots on a black plate with a fork.

    Blood Orange & Fennel Salad

    The final assembled salad with kale, squash, pecans, cranberries and pomegranates in a silver serving bowl.

    A Spiced Up Kale & Squash Salad

    Burrata on top of frisee and radicchio with pears, persimmons, pomegranate and pecans scattered on top a serving plate.

    Fall Fruit Harvest Salad

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    Meet Daniela

    VEGGIES ARE SEXY 

    Hi, I'm Daniela - a Los Angeles based food photographer and creative director. I began my career as a chef with a passion for sourcing colorful produce from local markets. I love emphasizing the beauty of real food with my images. I’m also a food stylist and recipe developer with a gorgeous prop-filled studio in Venice, California.

    Daniela Gerson Photography

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