Irresistible: but I did add a few figs as well

We had this last night and loved it. I wasn’t able to find a purple cauliflower and I had yellow corn tortilla chips so the visual wasn’t as nice as Heidi’s but the flavors were spot on.
@Beverly – I think comments on a blog are different than reviews on a site such as epicurious or something. It’s nice to get feedback on what you’ve written even if a reader hasn’t actually tried the dish. People feel more of a relationship (for lack of a better word) with blogs they read regularly so they are more inclined to leave an encouraging word. I try to come back and comment again after actually making the dish but see nothing wrong with giving a shout out to something that just *looks* amazing 🙂
HS: Thanks Nancy 🙂

My favorite colors, ingredients and flavors.Gorgeous images and recipe.
I’d incorporate Indian flavors using paneer instead of feta, tortilla chips with roti (baked till crisp and lightly crushed), In the magic sauce recipe, I’d substitute rosemary and thyme with dried fenugreek leaves (kasoori methi) and fresh coriander leaves. Love your innovative food ideas. 🙂

I wish more people would wait to comment until they had actually prepared the dish that Heidi is presenting…it isn’t really helpful to read 90 reviews that say, “Looks so good…”

I wanted to surprise my family last nigh and cooked your recipe. It turned out absolutely delicious. Everybody was soooo happy with the salad. Thanks a bunch.

I have been craving to find a new inspirational salad- and here it is! Will recreate it asap- thanks for making my day 🙂

The watermelon radishes are gorgeous and I love all bean salads. This looks excellent!

I love bean salads – especially the colors and the textures. This looks fantastic. Magnific!

So beautiful. Truly. The most artsy salad ever. Kudos.

This looks too yummy for words.

This salad sounds and looks amazing. All these ingredients I absolutely love, but would not have thought to put them together like this. It almost looks too good to eat!

absolutely stunning!!

Inspiration just oozes from you 🙂

Hi Heidi!
What a beautiful salad. I’ve never seen purple cauliflower before. I’m a (total) novice at cooking and bought your new cookbook recently. I’ve tried a few recipes so far and they’re phenomenal! The accompanying explanations are so helpful and it’s written in such an easy-to-understand way. My fiancee and I are thoroughly enjoying experimenting with the new flavors.

hi heidi,
my question pertains to an old post: Buttermilk Farro Salad Recipe. you mentioned changing this up a bit and using roasted tomatoes. i’d like to give it a try, but would like to know what you would change about the recipe if you substituted with roasted tomatoes. thanks!
HS: Just use your best judgement Stephanie – I like the idea of the combination of roasted tomato, buttermilk, basil/herbs, and farro. You could just leave it at that…I’m sure it’d be tasty.

I didn’t know where to post this so you would read it! I made your Special Zucchini Bread recipe since we’d overlooked 3 rather large zucchinis in our garden and it’s already quite Fall-ish here. I was attracted to it since I love curry powder in anything. Just took the loaves out of the oven, cooled and ate a slice. Divine!

I should make this tomorrow. I’m going to a potluck and I wasn’t too sure what to bring. Thanks for sharing & inspiration!!!

Well, I didn’t think you could come up with a salad that would trump your warm cabbage one but man, this is might be the contender! Because I am pregnant and need to feed my cravings asap, I made this salad as soon as I saw the recipe. Going off what we already had, I used white cauliflower and black beans, no radishes of any kind. It’s still blowing my mind! That magic sauce is indeed magic and I found myself scraping the pan with some tortilla chips. Thank you!

I am always wondering what to do with the rest of my tortilla chips – this is inspired, and the colors make this dish an elegant fall meal! Thanks for sharing.

This is my type of salad; I love the rich colors and the fact that it is made of substantial ingredients, producing something that can actually be filling and have substantial nutritional value.

Hi There,
So, this is my first post here. But, I had to tell you about the new Harvard Healthy Eating Plate. Did you see it? It basically supports the recipes you so generously share with us. I recently purchased your two cookbooks. I love them! I’ve been cooking all kinds of healthy (mostly ethnic) food for years. I own over a hundred cookbooks too. But your cookbooks and this blog are special to me. Thanks for the inspiration to keep on eating healthy, delicious food! Oh and I LOVED the puddle cookie recipe from this blog! Can’t wait to make some soda bread from your cookbook! Loved the egg salad recipe from your cookbook too, especially made with fresh eggs from the Farmers’ Market here in Boston.

Gorgeous colours, mmm! Just right for the transition from summer into autumn.

Probably THE prettiest salad I have ever seen. I want to try this!

I’m sold on the pictures alone. But the salad, oh that salad, with the bruised color palate and blushing watermelon radishes. It’s just stunning.

My jaw literally dropped when I saw the first photo – such beautiful colors! I want to make it just so I can stare at it all day 🙂

I opened this page and fell in love. What a stunning photo. Very inspired, thank you!

I love this — it’s like a de-constructed taco! Or like the very best taco salad, in all-veggie form.
Also, I appreciate the spirit of the thing, from-the-pantry/seat-of-the-pants into something grand.
Have a wonderful trip, Heidi.

i love that photo!

I swapped out the watermelon radish and cauliflower with purple peppers, barely cooked broccoli and very little red radish. Was fantastic .
Heidi the thing I enjoy the most about your recipes is how the vegetables make the show. Thanks!

What beautiful colors in this salad Heidi. Makes it all the more appetizing in my book. 😉

Great recipe! I always have a bag of somewhat stale tortilla chip pieces around because my husband refuses to throw them away. He likes them as a topping so I know he’d love this salad!

It is lovely! I still have a batch of the magic sauce I made two days ago, now I have to play with the veggies I got on hand and my home made chips!

I already planned to go to Rancho Gordo today, so I’ll add these beans to my list and this salad to our menu this week. This is my kind of food. I thought of you the other day when I made a frittata and wished I had some of your pepper sauce. I have to find the recipe–first book right?– and make it this weekend!

I have to say I fine the watermelon radish quite intriguing, never seen one before and it is such a beautiful colour too.

The salad looks delicious. I especially like the combination of fresh vegetable such as radish and avocado. Sounds like a nice idea including tortilla, I never had this, though it reminds me of fatoush salad, there, bread is included.

Heidi that looks gorgeous. I’m vacationing in SF early next month can’t wait to find some great produce like this!

I’ve never seen watermelon radish before! How interesting! It’s so beautiful and really adds something special visually. Does it taste different to regular radish?

I made this tonight and thought it was good, but a little on the oily side. Next time I would reduce the amount of dressing, and add a little lemon juice and cayanne for extra kick.

The Colours in this are spectacular. Going to have to find some watermelon radish. Enjoy your trip!

Had a bit of your leftover pizza dough sitting on cupboard next to a jar of your magic sauce and thought “why not?” The dough got rolled out pretty thin but it is magic sauce. Next thing you know – presto chango – awesome magic crackers.

Love the use of watermelon radishes! I need to find some to try!

I like it!
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One of your best pictures . . . I think you’ve found the cover for your third cookbook! The colors leap off the page and into one’s mouth.
Gotta’ go find me some watermelon radishes!

I’ve never seen the watermelon radish before…it looks amazing on your salad!! And your pictures are beautiful as always!

I agree that your food presentations are always so beautiful, Heidi, but I love your serving dishes and flatware as well. Are these old family pieces or do you just collect them from sales and shops?

I am so happy to have found your site. I really enjoy your fearless approach to cooking

Good one, I love it. The mix is very original and looks excellent. We’ll give it a try for sure. thx

Love it Heidi! I bet this would be delicious with a punchy cilantro vinaigrette too. Thanks.

Gorgeous!! Love the colors. And any salad that has sunflower seeds and cauliflower in it is a-ok in my book 🙂 Delicious!

Wonderful and nutritious. Lots of color and texture, and I can’t wait to try ‘that’ dressing….
I just made some crockpot beans and substituted dried tomatoes for the ketchup called for in the traditional dry mustard, brown sugar, molasses mix, with some chicken and apple organic sausage slices sauteed with onion. I didn’ t drain the beans to 1 c. liquid, either. Oooh. I was a piglet.
Your recipes inspire me, Heidi. Thank you.

I always take something away from your recipes that I know will be stored in my cooking memory bank forever…this time it’s sunflower seeds in my tortillas salads (in which i add copious amounts of quinoa) and THAT dressing. Perfection in dressing. Thx!

I have a favorite go-to tortilla salad recipe that I concocted many moons ago, but it is nowhere NEAR as gorgeous as this one! Though all of your food photos are stunning, this one almost made me fall out of my chair, it’s just THAT beautiful!

I’ve never even heard of watermelon radish! That whole bowl looks amazing. I love when stuff thrown together come out awesome like that!
Have a nice trip!

Gorgeous! So gorgeous that I’d be afraid to eat it 😉 but then I’d get over it …

Tortilla chips in a salad?! That’s an amazing idea. And the blue chips are truly beautiful. They totally match the watermelon radishes.

Simply gorgeous! I love new salad ideas, thanks!

Such pretty watermelon radish.

SO beautiful! Love the colors.

My 3 year old asked “What are those things?” when she saw the salad photo… guess I need to introduce watermelon radish! A quick blanch of the cauliflower sounds delish, with the colorful radish… what a fun way to get some protein with tortilla chips. The Symposium looks fabulous, enjoy!

Made the dressing last night with pork, peppers, noodles, etc. Oh my word! What an amazing dressing. You are right, this is going into regular rotation in my fridge. It is scrumptious!

I think the watermelon radish is the winner here – turning that whole picture into something really, really extraordinary!

How interesting – I never heard of using the leaves from a cauliflower before! It seems when I see them at the greenmarket and even at the farmers market the leaves are all lopped off, but I will keep an eye out as this has peaked my curiousity

Heidi I think you are the only person who could make a fridge cleanout look so glamorous. This looks amazing!

this may be one of the prettiest salads i have ever seen. although…i can’t find watermelon radishes anywhere. bummer.

Beautiful! I love all of the colors and textures in this salad. Have fun on your trip!

It’s just amazing how you can take this ingredient, that ingredient a little bit of this what-have-you ingredient, and turn it into something so sexy it should be looked at through a peep hole.
And charged for.

now this is my kind of salad…i love the mixture of ingredients, textures, and flavors!

Yes, I can always do a lunch of simply dressed beans with a vinegarette, especially now as I’ve got a pressure cooker and can get them meltingly soft. I totally recommend a pressure cooker if anyone is cooking beans regularly by the way. Makes all the difference.

SUCH a gorgeous salad. i love the idea of putting cauliflower in a tortilla salad. and your purple cauliflower looks perfect in here with the radish.

What a wonderful salad full of such delicious ingredients! so nice..

I love how you added a watermelon radish to this. It’s unexpected but adds great visual appeal. I tried a watermelon radish for the first time at a farmers market over the winter. This dish looks beautiful. Sometimes using up what we have turns out better than expected.

This sounds lovely!

I have Eye of the Goat Beans that I haven’t cooked up in awhile. They will be perfect for this!
I’ve been anxious to attempt creating a vegan “feta” cheese — this salad is just the inspiration I needed!

What a wonderful salad full of such delicious ingredients!

wow ive got farmers market envy, all those veggies look spectacular!
a really beautiful post heidi
x

you make veggies look delicious! am still new to this vegetarian lifestyle and am slowly adapting to it…your recipes certainly help!

Hey ,
What a great great looking salad, it looks like a proper gentleman in salads all well dressed and proper…
Are the cauliflowers red? never seen such before they look gorgeous and the colour combination of the whole salad is so balanced I just cannot find words
keep up the good work , I have you on my side bar
bye
HS: Hi Mahek – it’s a purple cauliflower 🙂

Thanks for relinking Magic Sauce…forgot about that one and it should not be forgotten.
The watermelon radish…is probably the most beautiful radish I have ever seen.
And a recipe jumping the line…oh, that’s big 🙂

It’s beautiful !!!!!!! big kiss

Your recipe has totally inspired me to head out to the Ferry Building and pick up some seasonal good at the Farmers Market! Never used watermelon radish in any of my recipes, so this one seems like a good one as any! Cheers!

Heidi I have this image of you in my head. You’re standing in the kitchen with a giant artist’s palette on your thumb – but instead of daubs of paint, it’s groaning under the weight of a kaleidoscope of fresh produce. You literally paint food onto the plate! It’s so inspiring to read your blog and flick through your recipe books. All this image lacked was smellavision! Thanks. Lisa x

I’m such a blue tortilla chip fan. I always feel a little guilty indulging, but in a salad, it’s guilt-free!
Have you ever baked with blue cornmeal? I brought a bag back from Texas last time I was home, and it’s sitting in my freezer, waiting for inspiration. Thought I’d check with you 😉

i often love crumbling chips into my salads – esp. the ones that got mangled in a bag

This looks delicious; so light and flavorful. And the color medley is absolutely gorgeous.

The colours in this are spectacular!! I’m starting to experiment more with salads, mainly ingredients, but never thought about colour matching. Something new to think about…

The salad looks delicious and has a lovely color!

Those colours are AMAZING Heidi! What an array of gorgeous produce you must have in SF. Yum, looks like my kinda lunch.

Oh wow this sounds delicious! I love the colours 🙂

Beautiful clicks !!
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Beautiful lunch! Many of my favorite ingredients except I have never seen or had a watermelon radish. This salad actually makes me feel good just looking at it!

Sounds fabulous. And perfect timing–I am just about to place an order for some heirloom beans at Rancho Gordo and now I’ll add cranberry beans. Beautiful too!

My goodness that looks delicious! Cranberry beans and watermelon radish? Even the ingredient list is divine!

This salad looks fantastic! Purple cauliflower caught my eye at the farmers market last week, and I’ll have to pick some up tomorrow and make your recipe. I love the colors and textures you’ve got going on here. Thanks for sharing, and have a safe trip!

That watermelon radish is so pretty–I’ve never seen such a thing!

Oh wow, your dishes always have the most stunning color palates. So inspiring. It looks so soft and almost fading– probably fitting for the transition into fall now. 🙂 Enjoy your trip!