salads

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Why is there no sandwich thread?

[mich64]

I can make a sandwich out of almost everything I eat, so I would enjoy reading what others think and like as well Kerouac!
Cheers,
Mich

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I just realized that I have not used sweetcorn in a salad for more than a year. I don't know why it dropped off my food radar.

[tod2]

And I just realized it was this time last year that I was introducing my "everything in it" salad to four Canadians whilst on our trip.
It was our first night together - each one with his own motor home parked in the front area of a large supermarket. That seemed the done thing over there.
We decided to barbecue and I volunteered to make a salad. If I say so myself the darn thing looked pretty spectacular in its glass bowl! Consisting of: crisp cos lettuce, sliced raw red onion, tomato, olives, pear slices, nectarine slices (peach), plum slices, grapes de-seeded, walnuts, and feta cheese crumbled over.
"What kinda salad is that Tod? I immediately gave it the correct name as I had slung everything I had bought at the supermarket into it!
Glad to say I had to make it at least 6 more times on our trip around Alberta ;D

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Speaking of "everything in it," I remember a food show I saw on a visit to the U.S. once, and the so-called chef was showing how to reuse leftovers in a salad. He took some french fries from the previous days and chopped them up into the mixture. I don't even remember what the other ingredients were, because all I could think of was how bad an idea the french fries were, congealed grease and all that. I thought salads were supposed to be healthy.

[Don Cuevas]

Healthy?



Salad platter at Randolph Diner, Randolph, NJ

No, I didn't order it.

[bixaorellana]

In certain moods, I could definitely fang into that Randolph's platter.

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I could eat it as a main course but not as a starter.

[mich64]

Don, what do those mayonnaise salads consist of, I think I see some rice and peas and maybe some potato? Definitely filling

Cheers,
Mich

[bixaorellana]

Oh, I think it is supposed to be a main course, don't you?

Does the big ball on the left have shrimp in it?

[lagatta]

The hardboiled eggs are overcooked.

I'd rather spend the calories on hot frites and shrimp in olive oil and garlic. It is sort of a riff on salade russe, but I think it looks rather gross.

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As far as I'm concerned, a salad can contain just about anything as long as the ingredients are complementary. Sometimes this requires a stretch of the imagination, but I was trying to think of things that absolutely do not go together like "leftover fried chicken + peaches in syrup" but then I thought "that could conceivably work if the chicken is extremely spicy." If anybody wants to try, please report back. However there are a few things that will never work as far as I am concerned -- for example popcorn + watermelon or anchovies + Jell-O. This salad was much more simple -- oxtail meat with rice, peanuts, green onions, carrots, Thai chilis, etc. Does anybody else have some unusual combinations?

[Don Cuevas]

Sorry for the delay in answering. I don't know exactly what's in those mayonnaise salads, as I've never ordered any.

Today, I made a salad of mixed organic greens, cooked and cooled linguine, tomato, jícama, corn kernels, peanuts, smoked Gouda cheese and a bit of sweet red pepper. We dressed our own, al gusto. I used some White Balsamic Vinegar and Sriracha Sauce on mine.

It was surprisingly good.

[rikita]

Apr 18, 2011 7:53:04 GMT onlyMark said:

As far as I know, in German the derivation 'salat' seems to mostly to refer to just a green leaf, like lettuce, which always used to confuse me.

Russian salad always used to be disappointing to me before I got used to remembering what it was.
There is a chain restaurant not far from me "Ruby Tuesdays" that has a salad bar. It's the only reason I go there.

i'd say the word "salat" can have two meanings. on the one hand it really means the green leafs themselves, like lettuce or similar (a lot of plants have names with "salat" in it, like eisbergsalat, feldsalat etc.) - and on the other hand it means the dish, and there you'd also say "nudelsalat", "rote beete salat" and so on - even though there is no lettuce at all in there...

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It's pretty much the same in French. "Salade" can mean lettuce or it can any of those other "salads" with no lettuce at all -- macaroni salad, potato salad, etc.

[onlymark]

Thanks for explaining that so promptly, rikita.

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Apr 21, 2011 16:37:05 GMT kerouac2 said:

Why is there no sandwich thread?

I believe there is a Sandwich thread in here somewhere.

I went out with a couple friends the other nite to a neighborhood wine bar (someone had a gift certificate and wanted to share).
Anyway, we got a couple of really good salads.
One of them was a frisee,roasted almonds,roasted pears,a nice dollop of Burrata cheese and a honey vinaigrette. It was one of the more memorable salads I've ever had.

[auntieannie]

looks like dendelion rather than frisee to me! but delicious all the same. can I have a bowl?

[Deleted]

And I was going to say that it looked like roquette.

I said "why is there no sandwich thread?" on April 21, 2011 at 18:37 (my time) and a sandwich thread was created on April 21, 2011 at 21:27.

[rikita]

May 20, 2012 12:03:21 GMT onlyMark said:

Thanks for explaining that so promptly, rikita.

you're welcome. i typed as fast as i could. (a letter per week approx.)

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May 20, 2012 16:26:36 GMT kerouac2 said:

And I was going to say that it looked like roquette.

I said "why is there no sandwich thread?" on April 21, 2011 at 18:37 (my time) and a sandwich thread was created on April 21, 2011 at 21:27.

See that ?? Some kind of magic!!

For me, that salad was all about the cheese. The greens were not dandelion or roquette. I was all over that cheese,the greens and company were lagniappe.

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My husband made a huge batch of "Italian Olive Salad", an old time New Orleans Italian recipe that he got from his great aunt.
It's put up in several glass jars in the fridge at present, marinating away.
I'll get some pics of it.
The consummate summertime fare in this heat.

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I have a half a head of batavia left which I must use within the next two days or face the consequences. As much as I crave salad usually, it suddenly stops appealing to me the moment it becomes obligatory.

[bixaorellana]

I am having my breakfast salad even as I type: frilly lettuce, green onion, radish, roasted nopal, & hogshead cheese dressed with mortared sea salt, peppercorns, & garlic + vinegar & a dash of olive oil.

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I imagine that the principal meaning of salad in our countries now is "cold dish containing uncooked items."

If that is correct, here is the salad I had for dinner the other night: smoked mackerel, goat cheese, tomatoes, radishes, beets, cucumbers.

[imec]

Man that goat cheese looks good!

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I made a great mixed salad tonight incorporating gorgonzola, and it was sensational.

[lagatta]

I made a fine julienne slaw of cabbage and carrots - the cabbage looked like a European white one (very pale green) but was flattened a bit - the ladies at the market just called it "un chou plat" and said it was very delicate and tender, which it was. I bought it last year too. Carrots - young new ones, but finally large enough to use my Zyliss "carrot tool" on, a hand tool (great for travel) that juliennes carrots and other hard vegetables. A bit of lime juice, a bit of rice vinegar, some oil - not too much dressing. But I added some Sambal Badiak (Indonesian spice paste) bought in Amsterdam, and Thai Basil, and an herb called something like Rau Ram() or Vietnamese Coriander, though I don't find it tastes much like coriander - these are herbs I have growing on my balcony, among others.

I like this slightly spicy salad, and have had it for breakfast and dinner (lunch was chez une amie).

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Smoked mackerel just goes so well with chicory.

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This time the innovation was to put anchovies inside of cocktail tomatoes.

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[chexbres]

Have you got anchovy paste anchoring those anchovy fillets?

Tonight I will throw together a big bunch of escarole, Belgian endive, some walnuts and Roquefort, and only add a little walnut oil and vinegar, salt and pepper.

I distinctly remember the first time I ate a tossed salad. I was 16 years old, and it was made in a big bowl at an Italian friend's house. I have never forgotten it, or my first taste of pure olive oil (Pompeian brand in that wonderful tiny bottle).

My father hated raw vegetables and fruit, and dictated that we eat the same thing every Monday, something else on Tuesday, and so forth - and most of what we ate came from cans and was cooked to death even further. One head of iceberg lettuce would last our family of 7 at least 2 weeks, because we only used half a leaf each on our Saturday hamburgers, and the other half was put under the pineapple ring into which went a dollop of mayonnaise which held half a banana upright, finished with half a maraschino cherry on top and a sprinkle of parmesan cheese from the green can. Other than that, for holidays, we had a salad bowl half-filled with neon orange Kraft French dressing and a small wedge of lettuce.

I have looked everywhere for a photo of that pineapple/banana salad, which came from "The Campbell's Kids Cookbook" - but it was probably declared obscene and deleted forever.