you eat alot of salad?

[vash]

i've been trying to cut back on meat. i'm getting older which isnt that wonderful. i've been tough on my body for the first 40+ years. i figure i should play nicer for the next 40.

salads are just not exciting. i cook. making a damn good salad is a challenge. i whisk up my own dressings. had a salad last night with some grilled chicken on top. tiny bits of chicken. made a hoisin pomegranate dressing that my wife loved. today for lunch another effen salad. damn.

(tonight is stewed okra w/tomatos over brown rice)

any DIY salad gurus here?

[Zeke]

I live on salad. A good salad has beans and a scoop of cottage cheese for me.

[URY914]

Salad seems to cover a lot these days.

[vash]

Originally Posted by URY914

Salad seems to cover a lot these days.

ok, no taco salads. hahah.

remember those budweiser "i salute you" commercials. that 20000 calorie taco salad inventor one is classic.

[javadog]

There are salads, then there are salads. Most salads are crap. However, if you make any of the following CORRECTLY, they are great and I doubt you'd get tired of them:

Louis
Caesar
Brown Derby chopped salad (Cobb salad)
Thomas Keller's herb salad
Pretty much any SE Asian salad.

Note, most of these have some, or a lot, of meat in them. Still...

JR

[Rusty Heap]

Just for Vash, think outside the box when it comes to "salad"


I do a version of this, add some salted peanuts and red onion, cilantro to this and roll these flavors over your tonque for a cool summer salad on a hot night.


Hola Jalapeño: Asian Cucumber-Watermelon Salad Recipe


the key is the asian hoisin sauce, sweet melons, crunch of the cucumbers, salts and acids from the onions...........OMG it's friggin' awesome.

[JTO]

I put a lot of stuff on my salads because I do rely on them for many meals a week.

Romain, tomato, onion, feta, olives, pepperocini, beans are always in my salad. Then, depending on what I have eaten that day, I will add lean protein. I always use a low fat dressing like a balsamic based dressing. Low call, and high fiber/nutrition makes them great meals.

Troy

[cantdrv55]

I'd go more regularly if I ate salads.

[vash]

Originally Posted by cantdrv55

I'd go more regularly if I ate salads.

you go enough.

[JTO]

Nice thing about salad is that you can eat until satisfied and not go over on your calories. If you like to eat as much as I do, salads are great.
Troy

[intakexhaust]

Was always the meat and potato type but my wife's homemade dressings, variety of lettuce and ingredients have made the difference. Very select olive oil and vinegar can make or break it too. Also, a niece had me try a spinach leaf with mandarin oranges, strawberry's and sweetened dressing, ++ me likey now. We've tried growing our own lettuce but always seems to be a problem with bug's and I refuse any pesticide spray so we quit that.

[RWebb]

I am fond of the "Fortified Salad" - invented the name as I noticed this brunette I was, ah... in close proximity to... always ordered a salad with strips of BBQ on it.

She is gone, but the salad remains.

[jyl]

Assuming we're talking conventional salads, rather than a T-bone with a lettuce bikini -

I like nuts, like walnuts and almonds, for the crunchy texture, protein, and option of carmelizing them to get sweetness. Other sweet stuff like peaches, apples, berries. I also like pickled and vinegared things, chunks of roasted beets being my favorite. Corn, either kernel or baby ears. Quinoa, couscous, wild rice also. Basically as much contrast as possible, in color, texture, and taste.

Then add your shrimp, fish, chicken etc and you've got a reasonably substantial meal.

[gtc]

Salad is what food eats.

I prefer spring mix with a simple vinaigrette and some tomato. Maybe a bit of stinky cheese. I don't understand people who load up their salads with tons of high fat/high sugar stuff... fruit, cheese, dressing, meat... if it weights more than the greens, you're doing it wrong. (Edit: unless you're making a meal out of it, as above)

I can't remember if it was from Jaques Pepin or Julia Child, but learning how to create a vinaigrette from various acids and oils was very useful.

[RWebb]

you guys know how wolves eat a salad, right?

[herr_oberst]

I know a place that serves a really delicious flank-steak salad!

[widgeon13]

I like salad. Panera has some pretty good salads.

[john70t]

Two years ago our garden over-produced.
I was getting tired of tomato/cuke/onion with italian dressing in a good way.
Keeps for a few days.

[tweezers74]

I love salads. I eat a arugala, goat cheese, baby beets, balsamic vinaigrette salad at least twice a week. I love seafood on salads. Crab, shrimp, salmon. Fresh mozzarella, tomato, basil, with some greens and balsamic vinaigrette... Yum!

[rusnak]

Persians make the most awesome salads. Thai salads with peanut dressing and hard boiled egg is very good too. I make a green salad with dungeness crab that is somewhat based on the self-serve salad bar at Whole Foods.