Squash Summer Salad

[MsMai]

SQUASH SUMMER SALAD

4 small zucchini
4 small yellow squash
1/2 cup chopped celery
1 red onion, chopped fine
1 red bell pepper, seeded & chopped
1 cup sherry wine vinegar (white wine vinegar works)
1/4 cup white, granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup olive oil
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper

Slice the zucchini & yellow squash paper-thin into a large shallow bowl. Add the celery, red onion & bell pepper. Combine the remaining ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to a boil & stir to dissolve the sugar. Pour the dressing over the vegetables while still hot. Cover & marinate at room temperature or chill overnight. Drain & serve.

[KYHeirloomer]

That sounds really good, Mai.

For my tastebuds I think I'd cut back on the sugar, just a tad. But otherwise, a nice change from, say, slaw.

[MsMai]

I use it all the time and they even have a brown sugar Splenda. I rarely use sugar because my DH is diabetic.

[KYHeirloomer]

Yeah, I've tried Splenda.

Unfortunately, I've yet to find any artificial sweetener that I consider palatable. Almost all of them leave an aftertaste. And they're far too sweet to begin with.

Most of the time I just use simple sugars: honey and maple syrup and cane syrup and the like.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Yes Mai this salad sounds so good, I am going to give it a try! Thank you for sharing!

[chubbyalaskagriz]

One of the taverns I worked in as a 14 yr. old had a popular Sunday Buffet. The owner's wife worked all day Saturday making salads and desserts- and one of her popular salads was broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, zucchini and yellow crook-necked squash cut into bite-sized coins & tossed with lemon juice and TONS of Lawry's Seasoning Salt.This was chilled in a bowl over night.

Next day, she rinsed the Lawry's off the veggies, tossed with vinegar & oil & a pinch of sugar voila! Sounds way too simple, but I admit it was indeed very delish!

[KYHeirloomer]

Ya know, Chubby, with one exception I've never seen Lawry's stuff outside the Midwest.

The exception: When we lived in Boston they used to have this garlic butter substitute. Maybe they still do. I haven't a clue what it was made of (probably some sort of saturated oil), but for a down & dirty garlic bread is was OK.

[chubbyalaskagriz]

I never saw Lawry's anywhere else either, Brook, but here I am back in the Mid-West and every store's got it! Maybe it's like Miracle Whip- ain't a store shelf in Alaska with it- but at the work-camps where we had tons of southerners and mid-westerners- THEY demanded it! So we could always special -order it from suppliers but it took weeks to get and man- did they charge us an arm and a leg for it! (I always HATED what buying Mircle Whip did to my budget- mainly because I personally cannot STAND the stuff!)