Salads that Kids *Might* Like

And adults *will* love

Hi Friends,

Let’s face it: salad is not a traditional genre of kids’ food. Yes, they’re vegetable-y and often hard to chew, but they can ALSO be crunchy, colorful, sweet-n-sour, and extremely fun to eat. With that in mind, we’re here to propose something radical: *maybe* salad should be a traditional genre of kids food? Since Fanny is in the middle of writing a second cookbook devoted entirely to salad, we thought we’d take this opportunity to test drive three recipes with three extremely scientific hypotheses:

1. A crunchy wedge salad with ranch-y dressing (hypothesis: kids will eat anything that’s crunchy and covered in ranch dressing)

2. A Niçoise-ish salad in lettuce cups (hypothesis: a ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ meal that’s eaten with your hands is an irresistible proposition)

3. A kale salad with avocado and an insanely delicious honey-miso dressing (hypothesis: a sublime, sweet-savory dressing will make kale lovers out of kale enemies)

So, before you dismiss this suggestion as lunacy, try out these three recipes and see how they go down. Just because we can’t imagine our kids will love something, doesn’t mean they won’t—remember Hannah Goldfield’s fennel revelation? Plus, the bonus of making salad for your kids every once in a while is that you, too, will have the opportunity to eat a delicious salad!

Fanny + Greta

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