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Sauce Pizza and Wine (Copycat) Salmon and Kale Salad

July 26, 2020 Leave a Comment

I'm sharing this Sauce Pizza and Wine (copycat) salmon and kale salad because I am on a salad for an entrée kind of kick during these hot summer months. I'm also trying extremely hard to make healthy food choices. And this salad happens to be one of my favorites for a while now. The Phoenix area has a great food scene. Some of the more popular restaurants belong to Fox Restaurant Concepts, headquartered in Scottsdale. Sauce Pizza and Wine was one of their restaurants until they sold the brand in 2015. But I still love the food, both for its taste and quality. And this salad is a great example. Arizona lifted some of its stay-in-place restrictions in May, but when we became one of the nation's top hot spots for COVID-19, the governor allowed counties to mandate new ...

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