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What's your salad?

cooby Jul 01 2017 01:39 AM

I like shredded iceberg lettuce, grape tomatoes, shredded carrots maybe some shredded cheddar and croutons . Sprouts if they're fresh. Italian dressing. Shredded seems to be my thing.

d'Kong76 Jul 01 2017 02:07 AM Re: What's your salad?

We are like 95% opposite so far... shredded cheddar sometimes works.

Fman99 Jul 01 2017 02:26 AM Re: What's your salad?

Fresh veggies -- red leaf lettuce (though mixing in romaine and green leaf and even iceberg, occasionally), onions (preferably red ones), diced carrots, sliced sweet peppers (if I have them in the house), and any combination of ingredients that will keep in a jar/dried format to put on top, normally some combination of sun dried tomatoes, green olives, bacon flavored toppers made from soy, and big garlicky croutons. Two tablespoons of some lower cal/light version of a creamy dressing -- light Thousand Islands, or French, or, other times, low cal vinagrettes. Mix it all the night before (minus crutons/dressing) in those containers that lunch meats come in, we save them and the lids and reuse them for salads and leftovers. This is the side salad that I bring with me to have with my lunch probably three days a week. I buy fresh lettuce each weekend and have side salads until the lettuce turns too brown. The red leaf has the best shelf life, in that regard.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jul 01 2017 05:48 AM Re: What's your salad?

We have A salad? That's like "What's your meat?" I mean, it depends. Also, a word of advice, if you don't do it already: make your own dressing. Not that hard, once you get the basics of vinaigrette-making down, and you aren't spending monsy on shitty, preservative-and-Xanthan-gum-loaded salad lotion.

A Boy Named Seo Jul 01 2017 07:55 AM Re: What's your salad?

Also, don't forget to mix in a fruit. Apple, pear, strawberry, what have you. When a fruit lives in my sally, I'm like, 'where ya been all muh life?'.

d'Kong76 Jul 01 2017 12:35 PM Re: What's your salad?

Tomato is a fruit!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 01 2017 12:57 PM Re: What's your salad?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: We have A salad? That's like "What's your meat?" I mean, it depends. Also, a word of advice, if you don't do it already: make your own dressing. Not that hard, once you get the basics of vinaigrette-making down, and you aren't spending monsy on shitty, preservative-and-Xanthan-gum-loaded salad lotion. That's good advice! I happened to make my own blue cheez yesterday (milk, mayo, sour cream, bleu cheez) because we were out of the terrible bottles. Wifey Bucket makes salads for us both every day of the week. I mostly have what she'd put in but occasionally I will also boil an egg and chop it in or add leftover protein from tjhe night before. I used to be strictly iceberg but now prefer variety and especially spinach. I could eat an entire spinach farm. Only must-haves in mine are cukes and carrots, I'm not a tomato guy unless they're insanely fresh then I enjoy them. I also like celery for the juicy crunch. As an aside we ate out at a fancypants Brooklyn hipster eaterie last week and dessert was green apple sorbet with fresh celery leaves: Intensity in 10 cities.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 01 2017 01:39 PM Re: What's your salad?

cooby wrote: I like shredded iceberg lettuce, grape tomatoes, shredded carrots maybe some shredded cheddar and croutons . Sprouts if they're fresh. Italian dressing. Shredded seems to be my thing. It doesn't seem like we'd be salad-compatible. I don't like tomatoes in my salad in any form, but grape tomatoes are especially taboo. I can't bring myself to bite into a grape tomato. Don't know why, but I can't do it. And don't get me started on shredded carrots. I dislike raw carrots, even when shredded. If I have a salad with shredded carrots, I actually go to the effort of removing the shreds one by one. When I go to the salad bar at my local supermarket, I usually go for romaine lettuce, chopped red onion (the more finely chopped the better) and a mixture of bleu cheese and feta cheese. I like cucumber slices, as long as they're sliced thin. Sometimes croutons, if I'm going to eat it right away, before the croutons have a chance to soak up the moisture of the other ingredients. (I have no use for a soggy crouton!) I usually opt for a low-fat creamy caesar dressing. A nice warm crusty roll on the side is always nice, and my accompanying beverage would be a Coke Zero.

Edgy MD Jul 01 2017 02:25 PM Re: What's your salad?

Everything I know about making a salad, I learned from To Sir with Love.

dgwphotography Jul 01 2017 05:06 PM Re: What's your salad?

Leafy spinach, cherry tomatoes, diced carrots, cucumbers, hard boiled egg, grilled chicken, with a home-made honey mustard dressing

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jul 01 2017 05:24 PM Re: What's your salad?

dgwphotography wrote: Leafy spinach, cherry tomatoes, diced carrots, cucumbers, hard boiled egg, grilled chicken, with a home-made honey mustard dressing That's a solid salad. Another pro tip: quick-pickle the spit out of everything. Yeah, cukes, but also, onions, shallots, peppers, fennel, jicama, grapes, strawberries, whatever. Keep 'em on your cupboard if you're sealing jars, or in your fridge if you're not/once they're open; depending on what they are. Toss them in your salad (or sandwich) for a quick flavor-enhancer.

41Forever Jul 01 2017 06:10 PM Re: What's your salad?

Not much of a salad guy. But I like caesar salad with lots of anchovies. I also like the salad with the basil, mozzarella cheese, tomato and syrupy balsamic vinegar.

Edgy MD Jul 01 2017 06:39 PM Re: What's your salad?

Here's Sidney Poitier making you a salad in To Sir with Love. [fimg=650]https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/sm/upload/kk/nf/ay/zp/to-sir-with-love-1200-1200-675-675-crop-000000.jpg?k=c8d8ab8b6a[/fimg] That guy makes you a salad, you bite the fuck down.

MFS62 Jul 01 2017 10:20 PM Re: What's your salad?

Almost any green with onions and tomatoes, with lots of Ranch dressing, but no nuts, legumes or croutons. Later

themetfairy Jul 01 2017 10:33 PM Re: What's your salad?

I tend to avoid salads. They react poorly with my stomach vis-a-vis running.

Frayed Knot Jul 05 2017 01:41 AM Re: What's your salad?

I tended to eat more salad back when I was pretty sure the green part was some sort of lettuce, usually iceberg or romaine. My problem lately is the trend that seems to avoid lettuce at all costs, that folks think it puts them closer to nature or something if they use totally unrecognizable greens because they grow only on the north side of Andean mountains in Peru when fertilized by Llama shit. But not only does much of that stuff look like something you'd haul out the industrial strength herbicide if it were growing in your backyard (I don't care if it makes the dog sick, Marge, we've got to get rid of this shit!!) but half of it looks looks like I'd cut my foot on them if I was walking barefoot in the backyard. Oh yeah, and take the stems off the leaves before throwing it in the bowl; I'm not a goat out grazing in some overgrown pastureland. Other than those minor guidelines, I'll toss in any number of things: red onions, sliced mushrooms, green or red peppers, various cheeses, leftover chicken, turkey, or ham, crumbled bacon, cut-up hard-boiled eggs, diced pepperoni, or sometimes all of the above in grand clean-out-the-fridge salad nights. I also concur with the homemade dressing thing. I'll still buy some (haven't gotten ambitious enough to try blue cheese yet) but various oil & vinegar mixtures in a variety of varieties are easy to make and are generally cheaper and better than store bought.

41Forever Jul 05 2017 02:16 AM Re: What's your salad?

What's with those salads where it looks like the chef cut a head of lettuce in quarters and sprinkled stuff on it? Looks like a lot of work.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jul 05 2017 04:48 AM Re: What's your salad?

GIVE ME BACK THE LETTUCE IN MY FIXED IDEA OF A SALAD AND GET OFF MY LAWN, AND ITS NUMEROUS FORAGE-WORTHY SALAD ELEMENTS! Complaining about the number of different greens available in salads these days is like complaining that there are things to eat at ballgames other than hot dogs. You can HAVE a lettuce salad (seriously, just ask your server-- they'll make one). Don't begrudge a guy his pea greens or purslane or nettles, just 'cause it sets off your grump alarm.

Frayed Knot Jul 05 2017 12:26 PM Re: What's your salad?

Don't get me wrong, folks are free to enjoy all the mix of nettles, barbs, briars and desert scrub they want, I'm just saying that that sort of stuff isn't going in MY salads which was the question which launched the thread.

41Forever Jul 05 2017 05:46 PM Re: What's your salad?

I like chicken salad, especially if grapes, cherries or cranberries are in the mix. But not egg salad or tuna salad.

d'Kong76 Jul 05 2017 06:40 PM Re: What's your salad?

If I haven't said so, I eat a lot of salad. I love Wish-Bone brand dressings but really have cut down on them a lot. Most days, I'm happy with: 3/1 combo of extra-virgin olive oil and white balsamic vinegar pinch of ground black, cayenne and white pepper pinch of dried oregano pinch of dried basil (I grow both and will use that instead starting now, more than a pinch since live herbs aren't as 'herby') KB isn't a vinegar fan so I make it in my own bowl. I like to marinate the red onion and tomatoes in the dressing for an hour when I can. Toss in everything else when ready to eat. I could eat toenail clippings if they have a good bleu cheese dressing on them. I have to stop typing, I feel exposed as a salad nerd.

batmagadanleadoff Jul 06 2017 08:08 AM Re: What's your salad?

Frayed Knot wrote: I also concur with the homemade dressing thing. I'll still buy some (haven't gotten ambitious enough to try blue cheese yet) but various oil & vinegar mixtures in a variety of varieties are easy to make and are generally cheaper and better than store bought. I love salads and eat 'em pretty much daily going back to my early teens. I make my own dressing just like you -- it's usually an oil/vinegar based dressing. And if it's just oil and vinegar, and it usually is, I don't need to prepare the dressing. I can just pour the oil and vinegar directly in the salad and pretty much nail the ratio I like every time. I almost never buy dressings -- maybe once every three or four years, when I'll see some new dressing that gets me because it's in a cool looking bottle and fancy label and has claims of upscaly-ness and bold new tastes -- and I'm always, always disappointed -- without exception. I grew up in a make your own dressing house so that's probably where this comes from. When I was in Junior High, I went through this brief phase where I'd argue with my parents because we didn't have salad dressings in the house and all my friends did. So they got some dressings for me and I guess I used them until they ran out and when they were gone, I stopped campaigning for more dressings. I only get dressings in a diner. I'm not likely to order a salad in a diner, but often a salad comes with your order. Then I'd get a dressing because to my experience, the oil and vinegar I typically get in a diner is totally tasteless. And then I ask for two servings of dressing because diner salad is so bad I have to drown it in dressing. The tomatoes, for example, it's like they were grown in the middle of an Alaskan winter and then put in the diner's freezer to be thawed out just for me, even in peak Summer tomato season. And you get one piece of the tomato sliced as thin as a hair. (So bad. And the portions are so small). Diner side salads usually come in a plate that's half or a third the size it should be. This makes cutting the salad and mixing it a devil of a task.

cooby Jul 06 2017 01:55 PM Re: What's your salad?

Yummy sounding stuff here. Mfs62 I will try that dressing Oh and I don't like 'yard salads' either