What's in your Fall salad bowl?
Now is the time for combining apples, pears, grapes & pomegranates. I roast root vegetables & add to salad greens. I'd like to experiment with grains & lentils. Do your salad recipes change with the seasons?
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9 Comments:
I like warm salads in cooler weather. Saute some onion or garlic in olive oil or bacon fat, toss in some heartier greens like escarole, endive, frissee, spinach or even julienned romaine, then hit with some nice balsamic sherry or aged red wine vinegar. Sometimes I top it with a soft egg and serve with toast and make a meal of it.
Salads like this also have the benefit if being much more wine friendly than your typical cold greens with vinaigrette.
coolname at 10:31PM on 09/23/07
My favorite fall salad is one with greens that are tossed with pears and thin red onion rings that have been sauteed in extra virgin olive oil and honey, the topped off with gorgonzola cheese. Mmmmm.
charm city cupcake at 10:40PM on 09/23/07
pears, pecorino romano cheese and concord grapes with good quality balsamic vinegar on a bed of greens
or for a lentil dish, boil down some lentils and mix with a balsamic vinegar reduction, carmelized lentils and some walnuts and serve still warm on red leaf lettuce, amazing.
avryan at 6:31AM on 09/24/07
My favorite salad is perfect for cold weather: baby spinach, roasted sweet potatoes, feta cheese, toasted pecans, dried cranberries, and maple vinagrette.
happybites at 9:49AM on 09/24/07
I made a delicious salad this weekend of Bartlett pears, blue cheese, pistachios, and dried cranberries on mesclun with a shallot vinaigrette. The perfect fall salad to me!
KitchenKore at 1:53PM on 09/24/07
Anyone make unusual salads with carrots, beets, other potatoes or rice during Autumn?
JEP at 5:04PM on 09/24/07
"the salad"= fancy lettuce, nibbles of avocado, mandarin oranges, sugar-coated pecans, thinly sliced red onion, bits of brie, a tasty orange dressing/vinagrette.
good in any season!
watchforbears at 10:59PM on 09/24/07
I love adding slightly sturdier ingredients to my salads in the fall- pears, nuts, thick(er) slabs of cheese, or sliced chicken and beef.
Christina at 8:23PM on 09/27/07
Yesterday I made a kickass salad with some romaine, mcintosh apple slices, gorgonzola and some sauted onions left over from annother dish. I dressed with dash of olive oil + balsamic vinegar and then inhaled it. Yum.
missjess at 9:27PM on 09/27/07