From Better Homes and Gardens

Drizzle your favorite salad dressing over this 30-minute main dish that combines meat, cheese, eggs, tomato, and sweet pepper. This recipe is versatile enough for lunch or dinner.

Chef's Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

When your family craves a Mexican main dish, try these quick-and-easy skillet tostadas made with ground beef and nacho cheese soup.

Skillet Tostadas with Beef

From Pepperidge Farm

Go out to lunch right in your own kitchen. Invite a friend and whip up this restaurant-style salad that tastes great and is ready in less than 1/2 hour.

Chef's Salad

From Betty Crocker

Cumin quickly turns store-bought Caesar dressing into a Southwestern-style salad topper. Ready in 5 minutes!

Taos Tumble Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

This is the classic of all salads, with ingredients like romaine, garlic, and parmesan cheese. Add chicken for a main dish variation.

Caesar Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

A simple sour cream dressing is served over a lettuce wedge for this cold side salad.

Iceberg Lettuce with Cucumber Dressing

From Better Homes and Gardens

Loaded with beef sirloin steak, bacon, avocado, cheese, and more, this salad won't leave you hungry!

Steak Cobb Salad with Dijon Vinaigrette

From The Food Channel

The pairing of a humble hard-boiled egg and smoky crisps of bacon bring out the pleasant freshness of this spring salad.

Baby Lettuces with Bacon and Egg

From Better Homes and Gardens

When you add chicken to traditional Caesar salad, it turns into an easy-to-prepare main dish. Serve with crusty bread.

Caesar Chicken Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

A subtle touch of tarragon enhances the flavor of this low-fat pea soup, which becomes a hearty spring meal when topped with a slice of French bread, prosciutto, and feta cheese.

Spring Pea Soup

From Tyler Florence

Wilted Butter Lettuce, Fresh Garden Peas, and Beurre Blanc

From Better Homes and Gardens

Prepare the dressing ahead of time and then bring it back to room temperature before you toss the salad together.

Big Green Salad with Two-Pepper Dressing

From Fine Cooking Magazine

Creme fraiche gives this salad a mild tanginess that marries beautifully with butter lettuce's delicate flavor.

Butter Lettuce with Poppy Seed & Tarragon Creme Fraiche Dressing

From Smithfield

Are you tired of grilled chicken or fried chicken salad? Well, I'm going to shuffle it up a little bit.

Pork Chop and Bacon Layered Salad

From Food & Wine

At Thai restaurants, Tom Mylan usually requests a double order of larb (or laab), an addictive appetizer of ground meat spiked with chiles, lime juice, and fish sauce and served with lettuce leaves for wrapping.

Thai Ground Pork Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Cheesy bread takes the place of croutons in this grilled steak salad. A homemade vinaigrette is drizzled on top to make a spectacular, hearty salad.

Grilled Steak and Onion Salad with Blue Cheese Toast

From Better Homes and Gardens

A salsa verde dressing is drizzled over slices of grilled ribeye steak and oven roasted potatoes in this salad main dish recipe.

Steak and Potato Salad

From Fine Cooking Magazine

This salad is best with very fresh, young peas that are tender enough to be eaten just barely blanched or even raw.

Pea, Butter Lettuce & Herb Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Build on the flavor and fascination with the well-known B.L.T. sandwich by changing out ingredients.

B.L.T. and More

From Family Circle

For a fun presentation, serve the salad in hollowed-out tomatoes. This salad recipe includes everything in a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, with a yummy mayonnaise dressing. Add some cheddar cheese for good measure.

BLT-Stuffed Tomatoes

From Better Homes and Gardens

When cooked in the microwave, bacon crisps up quickly. A little bit adds a big boost of flavor to a romaine and turkey salad that works as a main-dish dinner.

Turkey Bacon Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Served on toasted bread, this layered fruit, vegetable, and chicken salad is a complete dinner.

Southern Chicken Salad

From Midwest Living

Colorful cherry tomatoes and tangy kalamata olives add great flavor and visual interest to this side salad.

Romaine Hearts with Lemon-Honey Vinaigrette

From Better Homes and Gardens

This low-sodium side dish has three grams of fiber and fewer than 150 calories per serving.

Pummelo, Tangelo, and Banana Salad

From Smithfield

This fresh salad is the perfect complement to any entree.

Apple Pork and Goat Cheese Salad