Yesterday, I spoke of my plans to make my own big salad, due to recent disappointments at Country Mart's deli. Here are the results.
I made my salad in two layers, because I like to get parts of everything in each bite, and not just plain lettuce when I get to the bottom.
That's the first layer. I've got the chopped up romaine lettuce, shredded sharp cheddar, diced boiled egg, and half a cut-up home-grown tomato. Then I repeated another such layer on top of it.
There's the upper layer, topped with blue cheese dressing, and crispy fried onions. I might have overdone it with the crispy fried onions, but that was my compensation for not having a BIG big salad.
Sweet Gummi Mary! My big salad was delicious!!!
In retrospect, I might have only used half the boiled egg. A whole egg in a true big salad is just right, but in my bowl, it was a bit much, changing the flavor slightly.
I also had a couple of frozen chicken tenders.
Not exactly like the deli chicken tenders, but a reasonable facsimile.
Yes, I will make my big salad again. Tonight (Wednesday) I had a small salad, without the boiled egg, and an extra chicken tender.
Farmer H brought home six more garden tomatoes. There are definitely salads in my future.
It looks great, and delicious, though quite different from "my" salads which are usually tossed in italian (oil and vinegar) dressing, since I don't much like the creamy dressings. And I use the green leaves of the lettuce as well as the paler middle ones.
ReplyDeleteI don't like limp lettuce, so I buy the hearts of romaine. I used to always use Italian dressing, but then I tried others and liked them better.
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