salad crush

while we were traveling this past week,

i had two of the very best salads ever.

i can't stop thinking about them.

a salad crush, for certain.

they aren't really recipes, but i snapped

photos of their ingredient lists so i can

try my hand at recreating these at home.

the first:

superfood salad

from the deli case at whole foods

in salt lake city

i was surprised that whole foods doesn't have a fresh juice bar,

but if they had, i wouldn't have discovered this amazing salad.

this had a kale base, with carrots, edamame, blueberries, cashews, 

sunflower seeds, and lots of red onion.

the second:

red quinoa salad

from sammy's woodfired pizza & grill

{one of my parents' favorite places}

in las vegas

this was a base of arugula {my favorite}, with red quinoa tossed throughout.

toasted almonds, gold beets, and avocado.

i'm not sure if you can tell how enormous this salad was.

long after everyone else was finished, i was still enjoying this huge pile of greens.

i'll let you know if i come up with

anything close to the acai dressing

or the citrus chili vinaigrette.

♥