Maple Mustard Dressed Salad with Oven Roasted Sweet Potato Fries

I love a good roasted vegetable salad. I am also a fan of damn good salad dressings and this maple mustard dressing is frickin’ TOPS. It is savory, sweet, complex, and stupidly simple to put together! There is no need to have that summertime sadness which has you say goodbye to salads, this recipe lets you have the best of both worlds. Crisp Fall weather and tasty, complex salads!

Maple Mustard Dressed Salad with Oven Roasted Sweet Potato Fries
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Simple Roasted Beet Salad with mandarins, walnuts, and goat cheese.

This roasted beet salad is a classic take on a winter salad. Warm roasted beets tossed with salad greens and surrounded by creamy goat cheese, crunchy walnuts, and juicy mandarins is both a healthy and comforting way to to continue enjoying salad in colder weather.

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Healthier Cheeseburger Salad

This healthier cheeseburger salad uses my chipotle chili meal prep ground turkey and in season summer tomatoes. It’s under 450 calories and it really satisfies those random cheeseburger cravings in a way that won’t sidetrack your progress!

So this cheeseburger salad came to me on a whim one day when I was craving a very specific burger from Izzy’s Burger Spa in South Lake Tahoe, California. I live in Sacramento which is about two hours away from Izzy’s and I have to occasionally remind myself that it would be crazy to drive two hours just to eat a burger, but this place has the best burgers I have had in my life. It’s a place with good prices and no frill burgers. I have to stop talking about them now because suddenly 2 hours doesn’t seem so far!

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