Every salad dressing needs some sugar. It adds sweetness, yes, but it also curbs bitterness and tames acidity, marrying your various ingredients to create one cohesive flavour profile. Maple, honey, and agave are all good additions, but they bring their own flavours, in addition to pure sweetness.

Nobody likes a warm, wilted salad. If you want your homemade salads to be as crisp and refreshing as the ones you get at a restaurant, try this trick.

When I took a lunch to work, I was never the type of person who could prep it the morning of. This limited my workday lunches to things that wouldn't get gross sitting in the fridge overnight, so I assumed salads were pretty much out. This was incorrect.

Beetroot salad may not sound super exciting, but swapping out raw beetroot for super tender, savoury, salt-crusted ones ups the flavour factor and makes for a super tasty, not at all boring salad.

Vibrant, fresh salads are one of my favourite lunches, but I don't always have the time to stop and make one in the middle of my workday. Traditional, leafy bases can get limp and slimy if you make them ahead, but The Kitchn has come up with five fresh salad bases that stay crisp all freaking week.

If you're allergic to eggs, just don't like mayonnaise, or tired of the same old recipes, pasta and potato salads may seem firmly off the menu, but substituting tahini for mayo will give you a creamy, extremely flavorful salad, no mayo needed.

Last year on Evil Week, we counted down the top ten ways to annoy a vegan. Now it's time to piss off the carnivores. If you abstain from meat, here are ten ways to infuriate your bacon-loving buddies and defy everything they stand for.

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There's no arguing that the best way to eat leftover pizza is for breakfast, cold (come at me), but if you feel like mixing it up, I suggest doing so with these delicious pizza croutons from Refinery 29.

Red Rooster has teamed up with SumoSalad to bring a range of gourmet sides to its fast food restaurants. The new salads have been specifically designed to complement roast chicken and are (reasonably) healthy to boot. We recently gave the Zesty Pumpkin Couscous version a try to see if it measures up to Sumo's official salads. Here is our verdict.

Here's a fast food partnership that actually makes perfect sense -- Red Rooster is teaming up with SumoSalad to bring a range of gourmet sides to more than 350 Red Rooster restaurants. The new salads have been specifically designed by Sumo to compliment roast chicken and are reasonably healthy to boot. For a limited time you can also snap one up for free (conditions apply, natch.)

Salads are great for sneaking more vegetables into your diet and getting and staying healthy, but, let's face it, sometimes salads are boring. This graphic from Cook Smarts serves up 50 salad combos and dressing ideas to get you out of a salad rut.