If you're bored with lettuce, why not expand your salad recipe collection with help from some creative food bloggers? Here are five great options with no lettuce in sight.

Habeus Brulee has two amazing cucumber salad recipes, each from a favorite grandmother.

At The Amateur Gourmet, I drooled over the recipe for Zucchini Carpaccio which Adam found in the cookbook written by a famous food blogger from Paris.

In Hong Kong, Heather from The Culinary Chase makes Vietnamese Squid Salad which she says has a taste factor of "ten out of ten!"

Joanna The Passionate Cook has a colorful and delicious-looking Green and White Asparagus Salad with Red Pepper and Tarragon.

Finally, at Boxcar Kitchen Esther has a recipe for Spring Spinach Salad that she says never gets old, and I can see why with all the interesting ingredients.

The photo of Black Bean, Rice, and Cilantro Salad is by Blogher Food Editor Kalyn Denny, who also blogs at Kalyn's Kitchen.