PrintWhat's your favorite salad combination?
Right now I am hooked on crumbled goat cheese, dried cranberries, candied pecans with rasberry vinegarette on field greens or any other non-romaine lettuce. I would love some new ideas for a good salad.
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24 Comments:
I love salad!
jterrito at 10:13AM on 03/22/07
Salad is good!
jterrito at 10:13AM on 03/22/07
I had a dream about a frisée salad (with lardons, poached egg).
Christopher Balla at 11:18AM on 03/22/07
I love that combination, too.
How about arugula with pears, walnuts, goat cheese, and balsamic vinegar?
kathryn at 11:59AM on 03/22/07
Arugula, cilantro, avo, olives, asparagus (cooked in olive oil with garlic), tomatoes
or
Shrimp stirfried with garlic and lime juice - cooled
Mango
Avo
Cilantro
Lime Juice squeezed over all
NSW at 12:04PM on 03/22/07
I make a salad dressing with honey, cider vinegar, and olive oil and then I thinly slice red onions and let them macerate for half hour. I like this dressing on top of field green with blue cheese, pecans and pears.
malenky at 12:29PM on 03/22/07
Hey, any cheese and nuts and greens combination is not valid. Too easy!
Blip at 1:25PM on 03/22/07
I enjoy the pear/cranberry/walnut/gorgonzola combo too, but even better is a blend of sliced dried figs, chèvre, thinly sliced grilled chicken, pecans, and a classic balsamic vinaigrette over arugula.
OH, and roasted red peppers, feta, kalamata olives, artichoke hearts and toasted pumpkinseeds with a lemon-olive oil dressing is agreat "quick" salad. Just be sure to rinse the veggies and cheese really well, to avoid a super-salty salad!
à la mode at 1:39PM on 03/22/07
I am obsessed with Chop't. This overpriced shake and make place chops with a mezzaluna, and somehow it really changes the taste.
Anyway, I like spinach, beets, corn, and peas with bacon Russian dressing.
I made a Julia child salad nicoise after seeing her do it on tv, and that is delish too.
NYminknit at 1:53PM on 03/22/07
Bacon Russian dressing!
samedog at 2:59PM on 03/22/07
If I can't list cheese/nut/greens combos, which are our favorite, everyday go-to salads, for a little more effort I do a warm salad and saute a bit of pancetta or bacon with sundried tomatoes, red onion and pine nuts. Add a little balsamic to combine and drizzle over arugula or mixed greens. Yum!
Jeana at 3:13PM on 03/22/07
NYminknit, What makes the salads at Chop't so great? I read a little bit online....do they chop up the lettuce too or just the add ons? Tell me more!
ThatGirl153 at 3:44PM on 03/22/07
My favorite salad combo owes in large part to the fabulous fresh sausages made at my local gourmet grocery store - the chicken, cherry, pecan sausage is fantastic, and not made with gross unmentionables ;} So, cooked fancy sausage over baby spinach, plus pine nuts, chopped red onion, and a basil pesto-balsamic vinegar blend for dressing. Top with a bit of crumbly cheese (parm, bleu, feta, etc.), et voila!
myzkyti at 3:54PM on 03/22/07
Bad Salad - Anything covered in ranch, ceasar or italian dressing.
Good Salad - Mandarin Oranges, Grilled Chicken, Spinach, Tomatoes, Cilantro, Walnuts, dried cranberries, drizzled balsamic.
NickDavid at 4:17PM on 03/22/07
They chop everything--the greens (they have, I think, maybe about six base greens--spinach, romaine, iceberg, field greens, etc), the toppings you want--with a mezzaluna and then they toss it with the salad dressing. I always get spinach, and I can't explain it, but the chopping makes the vegetables taste like meat, instead of like vegetables.
NYminknit at 4:20PM on 03/22/07
I think chop't is very expensive for salad, but I will say that I think it is significantly better than the average shake and make deli place. They cook almost all of their own food (beets etc), but the chopping is amazing. I think it's like all those fancy foam and gelee recipes, somehow the chopping changes the texture and how you experience the vegetables.
NYminknit at 4:23PM on 03/22/07
Salad #1-Use any mixed greens, avocado, fresh corn,cut off the cob ,chopped red onion, grape tomatoes, cilantro amd make a lemon vinaigrette. You can throw in grilled chicken. Salad # - endive, dried cranberries, chopped apples, chopped avocado,and gruyere cheese, topped with lemon juice and red wine vinaigrette. Throw salt and pepper to taste on both salads
Mich23 at 4:54PM on 03/22/07
Any combo of greens, nuts, cheese, veggies, fruits & no meat or salad dressing
JEP at 6:37PM on 03/22/07
I do love the cranberry/pear/walnut etc. salad you mention. Instead of pears and walnuts, I use seedless red grapes and almonds.
Another favorite is baby spinach with a good creamy feta, sauteed mushrooms, candied pecans/walnuts and a balsamic honey vinaigrette.
rothchild at 6:48PM on 03/22/07
I've been doing romaine with grapefruit sections, toasted pita croutons, olives, and feta, vinaigrette dressing with pomegranate molasses. Basically a modified fattoush salad. I think I'm going to switch to arugula and/or watercress, though (I don't like raw spinach); much as I love romaine, it's kinda watery in this context. Re. feta - the less salty varieties (e.g., Israeli or French) are better. Goat cheese might be a little too precious here.
emily20008 at 12:40AM on 03/23/07
I love spinach, feta cheese, sliced sweet onion, mushrooms, bacon and hard boiled egg, tomato with a nic homemade vinaigrette.
I make this salad with fresh plum tomatoes, snow peas, and sweet onion in a french dressng mmmmm.
Just plain romaine, tomatoes, scallions, mushrooms, feta, olives and a nice vinaigrette.
Once in a while a nice antipasti of romaine, roasted peppers, olives, sharp provolone, salami, good olive oil, grilled eggplant slices.
JerzeeTomato at 1:36AM on 03/23/07
My two favorites (because I can't pick just one) are:
1. Baby spinach, bean sprouts, cashews, sliced button mushrooms, croutons, chopped hard boiled egg and bacon tossed in Catalina dressing.
2. Romaine, radichio and a little arugula with supremed blood orange segments, shaved red onion, sliced, toasted and lightly salted almonds with a dressing made of the juice squeezed from the "carcasses" of the blood oranges, a touch of Dijon mustard, honey and extra-virgin olive oil. (I refuse to use the term Ee-Vee-Oh-Oh anymore.)
Calichef at 8:58AM on 03/23/07
i had this salad at coco pazzo cafe in chicago last summer...
arugula, fennel, watermelon, salt & pepper, and really good olive oil.
so spicy. so sweet. SO good!
thefrugalfoodie at 8:28PM on 03/23/07
Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder, thefrugalfoodie: watermelon, feta, and basil! http://recipesatrandom.blogspot.com/2006/09/watermelon-feta-and-basil-salad_27.html
But only in summer; watermelon in March from Chile is just not right...
emily20008 at 5:20PM on 03/24/07