The Toss-It-Yourself Salad Thread

[Eran of Arcadia]

When I am in a restaurant, caesar salad. At home, I just take a bag of lettuce and pour a bunch of caesar salad dressing on it. Hardly qualifies as a salad but at least it's healthier than most of what I eat. When I was growing up, for holidays my mother would make fruit salad, with apples, pineapple, bananas, marshmallows, and some sort of cream-based sauce with food coloring to make it pink. Good stuff.

 

[Till]

Why no fruit?

I'm for strict apathy between fruits and other foodstuff. Note that i have nothing against fruits. Heck, some of my favourite dishes are fruits! I just can't tolerate the idea of interculinary mixing. At best, it tastes objectionable, at worst downright distasteful (eg. field salad with bit or oranges and bacon *shudder*).

 

[Grisu]

That seems almost like a Waldorf's salad (or then I'm just mistaken).

I'm sorry but we just ran out of Waldorfs

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Yeah, I toss salads quite a bit.

 

[Masquerouge]

So:
-lettuce
-goat cheese crumbles
-swiss cheese dices
-nuts
- and a vinaigrette

 

[JZ_UK]

I'm for strict apathy between fruits and other foodstuff. Note that i have nothing against fruits. Heck, some of my favourite dishes are fruits! I just can't tolerate the idea of interculinary mixing. At best, it tastes objectionable, at worst downright distasteful (eg. field salad with bit or oranges and bacon *shudder*).

Such salad regulars as say... tomatoes, olives, cucumber, corn, peas, beans, radish and bell peppers are fruits...

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

- Lettuce
- Anything else I can find in the Fridge.
- Stop adding things when the ingredientcount goes to 8.
- Main ingedient, surprise.

 

[fishlore]

Lettuce
Pepperoni
Salami
Ham
Chicken
Bacon
Cheese (mozarella, provolone or a sharp cheddar)
Straight vinegar as a topping.

 

[Ecofarm]

Yeah, I toss salads quite a bit.

Gross.

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Yellow summer squash, sliced to "sticks", salted (wait 30+ mins), rinse well
Zucchini, preparation same as above
Kidney beans (cold)
Red onions (can be salted as above, if you are not a fan of onions)
Fresh ground black pepper

I have a 1000 more, but this is unlike the traditional lettuce and tomato combo, and satisfies protein + fat content without dressing.

ps. The best dressing = olive oil, olive pickling ("juice" from a green olive jar), salt and pepper.

 

[LucyDuke]

Anything Fifty suggests.

OR

- baby spinach
- romaine lettuce
- tomatoes (not cherry/grape tomatoes, screw those things, they're not real tomatoes)
- cucumber
- red cabbage
- red onion
- celery
- carrot
- broccoli
- snap peas (with or without pod)
- red pepper
- green pepper
- unsalted sunflower seeds (without shell)
- sharp cheddar
- garlic croutons
- balsamic vinaigrette

When I'm serious about a salad, that's what I make.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Gross.

I don't get it . . .

When I'm serious about a salad, that's what I make.

What about when you are flippant about a salad?

 

[LucyDuke]

What about when you are flippant about a salad?

Baby spinach, tomatoes, sunflower seeds, balsamic vinaigrette.

 

[Murky]

So, you, for some reason, absolutely must make a salad, and it must be the (by your own measure) tastiest salad you can think of. What kind of salad is it? What ingredients go in, and why?

I think the tastiest is the Southwest Salad with Chicken Breast on top.

 

[On Yer Flour]

I'm for strict apathy between fruits and other foodstuff. Note that i have nothing against fruits. Heck, some of my favourite dishes are fruits! I just can't tolerate the idea of interculinary mixing. At best, it tastes objectionable, at worst downright distasteful (eg. field salad with bit or oranges and bacon *shudder*).

You're a salad segregationist?

 

[Till]

Such salad regulars as say... tomatoes, olives, cucumber, corn, peas, beans, radish and bell peppers are fruits...

I'm aware that certain scientists insist on making that classification, in an transparent attempt to stay in line with
political correctness. But to the common man, equipped with functioning taste buds and the freedom to state the truth, without having to fear for his research funds, the difference between fruits and - as you put it - salad regulars is obvious.

Please realize that while i'm in favour of segregation, i do not claim for either kind to be superior. They both excel in different areas. It is the natural position for olives and their kind to be at the front of the meal, while fruits come last, as dessert. I realise that some people dispute the existence of this natural arrangement, out of an ill conceived egalitarian agenda, but this merely shows the power that wilful denial has over them.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

So you are not a vegetable supremacist, merely a vegetable separationist, or nationalist? I have found that in principle there is a difference but in practice, if one advocates separation - be it of fruits or of vegetables - they also implicitly consider theirs to be superior. What is strange, however, is that vegetable nationalists and fruit nationalists have been known to cooperate at times.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

So you are not a vegetable supremacist, merely a vegetable separationist, or nationalist? I have found that in principle there is a difference but in practice, if one advocates separation - be it of fruits or of vegetables - they also implicitly consider theirs to be superior. What is strange, however, is that vegetable nationalists and fruit nationalists have been known to cooperate at times.

 

[JZ_UK]

I'm aware that certain scientists insist on making that classification, in an transparent attempt to stay in line with
political correctness. But to the common man, equipped with functioning taste buds and the freedom to state the truth, without having to fear for his research funds, the difference between fruits and - as you put it - salad regulars is obvious.

Please realize that while i'm in favour of segregation, i do not claim for either kind to be superior. They both excel in different areas. It is the natural position for olives and their kind to be at the front of the meal, while fruits come last, as dessert. I realise that some people dispute the existence of this natural arrangement, out of an ill conceived egalitarian agenda, but this merely shows the power that wilful denial has over them.

Sir, I stand corrected, and amused, brava, brava!

 

[Shadylookin]

lettuce, cheddar cheese, bacon bits, and thousand island dressing.

sure it's not healthy, but it is tasty