Awesome Hack for leftover salad
My mother in law has a paticular genius when it comes to using up leftovers. The other day my father in law made too much salad (mixed greens + italian dressing with crutons0 and it was already overdressed. I was tempted to just throw it out but instead my mother in law blended it with some v8 to create a gazpatcho! I enjoy eating it on chips with a little hot sauce. yum!
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9 Comments:
I never would have thought of that. So creative! I'm just proud of myself for using my leftover green salad as a bed for tuna salad :)
Kerosena at 12:39PM on 05/12/09
Almost any leftover salad can be stuffed into a baked potato kumpir-style to create a pretty solid lunch.
SqueezeBottle at 1:04PM on 05/12/09
I recently drank salad -- lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, radish, and mint. It's not bad...just different.
I had to try it since I bought a drink recipe book recently. There were sections of drinks using wheatgrass, bean sprouts, rhubarb, peas, and a host of veggies, as well as the usual blend of fruits like passion fruit, papaya, etc.
Cassaendra at 1:15PM on 05/12/09
Ina Garten uses her leftover salad in a similar way...she blends it all together and adds it to her hot soups...the greens and vinegar add great flavor to the soups.
juliebugsmama at 2:49PM on 05/12/09
make pesto out of spinach and argula salad....or maybe some chimichuri sauce....nomnomnom.
katiedid at 3:40PM on 05/12/09
Julie- my mother in law was inspired by Ina.
missjess at 10:48PM on 05/12/09
That is super creative! The first thing I thought of for leftover salad was using it as a taco filler (paired with a meat, cheese and sour cream of course).
Hillary
Chew on That at 12:28PM on 05/13/09
That's what I do with the leftovers make a soup.
pjracz10 at 4:12PM on 05/13/09
I make left-over dressing... mix the leftover salad in a blender with olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper and some garlic/herb seasonings and you have dressing for your next salad...
MadelynRodriguez at 6:58PM on 05/15/09