Cheryl McColganFounder, Heal Nourish Grow LLC · Events, Content and Marketing, Podcast Host.

Summer Salad With Strawberries, Avocados and Feta

17 Jun 2023 · 2 min

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In this video, Cheryl McColgan presents a fresh, low‑carb summer salad that showcases seasonal produce. She walks through the ingredient lineup—blueberries, strawberries, heirloom tomatoes, sweet peppers, cucumber, celery, red onion, ripe avocado, and feta cheese—highlighting their flavor contributions and nutritional benefits, especially for a keto diet. The dressing is a simple blend of extra‑virgin olive oil, salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning. Cheryl emphasizes the visual appeal, plating the salad attractively, adding fresh basil as garnish, and tossing it tableside for guests. She directs viewers to the full recipe on healnourishgrow.com.

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I am really just loving this simple summer salad. It's got all the bounty of the season, starting off with fresh blueberries and fresh strawberries, always in season right now, a great low-carb fruit to add to your keto diet. And then of course we have to have homegrown fresh tomatoes. I love finding heirloom tomatoes that are local if at all possible. Some beautiful red yellow and orange sweet peppers, some cucumber, some celery— has such great crunch and adds a wonderful addition to the salad. Then of course some red onion, and what summer salad would be complete without an avocado? This one happened to be perfectly ripe, which was so great. And then of course piles of feta cheese to really give it that nice saltiness and tang. The dressing is super simple. You're just using extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper, and a little bit of Italian seasoning.. And this is plated so that you have this just beautiful presentation that'll really impress your guests. You wait until the very end to toss it up. Finally, you put a little bit of fresh basil from the garden on there and some basil leaves as garnish. And then, like I said, when you're ready, you're going to toss it up in front of your guests. This is like such a beautiful presentation, and it's so fresh and delicious for summer. So be sure to go check out the whole recipe at healnourishgrow.com.