7 salad honey friendly Recipes

cucumber, sliced thinly, tomato , chunked, onions, sliced thinly (i used a medium-sized oregon-grown hermiston sweet and added 2 green onions) or 1 bunch green onion, sliced (if choosing green onions use both green and white parts), salt , to taste, black pepper , to taste, extra virgin olive oil, raw apple cider vinegar plus 1 tsp, honey plus 1 tsp (local is best!)

carrots, grated (i used standard orange, indigo and yellow carrots), sliced almonds, toasted (walnuts, pistachios, pine nuts, hazelnuts are good substitutes), dates, chopped small (i used a combo of medjool and deglet noor dates), lettuce leaf, lemon , juice and zest of, honey (local is best! i had to warm the a little to make it easier to whisk.), extra virgin olive oil, orange flower water , to taste, ras el hanout spice mix, greek style plain yogurt, fresh mint, minced (save a few leaves for garnish)

red potatoes, quartered (about 1 lb), loosely packed fresh basil leaf, olive oil, honey (if you want this vegan, use another type sugar), white balsamic vinegar, stalks celery, chopped (plus some celery leaves)

melon fruit (mixture of cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon, tuscan melon, any heirloom varieties of melons, etc.), fresh key lime juice or 1/2 cup frozen limeade concentrate, honey (try a flavored and remember local is best!), poppy seed, approximately, almonds, fresh lavender flowers (my addition but optional) or fresh mint (my addition but optional), key lime zest , if desired

whole walnut halves, heart celery with greens , wiped clean and chopped, red onion, thinly sliced, red seedless grapes, split, gala apples, seeded and chopped, lemon, juiced, honey , eyeball it, apple cider vinegar, ground cardamom , eyeball it, fresh dill, finely chopped, dijon mustard, extra-virgin olive oil , eyeball it, cream , eyeball it, salt and pepper, head bibb lettuce or butter lettuce