31 Days of Salad: Stellina’s House Salad

 
The house salad at Stellina Pasta Cafe is another that you can easily call a meal. Every forkful is a palate adventure: red- and green-hued buttery leaves, meaty garbanzos, sweet red beets, red onion and nutty sunflower seeds. The assertive saltiness of briny Kalamata olives and crumbled feta find balance from a slightly thick, tangy-sweet white balsamic dressing. For a salad that explodes with flavor, texture and color, Stellina’s is spot on.

This article appears in January 2014.