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I love salad!

I had a dream about a frisée salad (with lardons, poached egg).

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

Hey, any cheese and nuts and greens combination is not valid. Too easy!

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.

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!

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

The organic farm is drowning us in huge quantities of broccoli, lettuce, boc choy, kale, spinach, Kale, collards, radicchio and escarole! I'm not complaining, but I'm trying to keep things interesting while we eat all these greens.

Current fave: any combo of lettuce, sliced strawberries, chopped red onion, walnuts, chevre and poppyseed dressing thinned with a little milk - don't like it too thick. You can throw in some white beans, too, if you like.

Also: lettuce or greens of any kind, thinly sliced pears, craisins, and a good-sized slice off a log of chevre, rolled in chopped pecans and baked until warm. Dijon mustard dressing - heaven!

My favorite chopped salad: lettuce, onions, tomato, avocado, walnuts or almonds and any type of vinegarette. Love, love, love tomatoes and avocado together.

I slowly slowly lowly cook thin slices of garlic and sliced almonds in olive oil and butteruntil they are just barely browned, and finish the last few minutes with a good shake of seasoned salt and sugar.

They are the perfect delicious yummy crunchy topping to any mixed green salad. That, plus a sweet element, like grapes or berries or diced apple, makes a good salad great for me.