What's your favorite salad combination?
Salad is good!
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...
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!
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.)
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'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.
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.
Any combo of greens, nuts, cheese, veggies, fruits & no meat or salad dressing
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 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.
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.
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