Salad requests

[mousme]

Dear flist,

I am on a salad kick. It's part of my new healthy-eating thing. My problem, such as it is, is thus: I am not an experienced salad person. My salads are therefore pretty standard: lettuce, raddichio, cucumber, tomatoes, and peppers. Occasionally avocado. Today I went wild and added red cabbage. Sometimes I remember to put in spinach, but I usually forget.

So I want to broaden my horizons. What delicious salads do you make? I am open to suggestions, although I reserve the right to ignore ingredients I don't like (endives, for instance: blick).

Ideally, the salads would be non-creamy in nature (in terms of the dressing), and not too heavy on the protein (nuts, chicken, whatever), but I am not averse to having that sort of salad listed as well, for the occasional change of pace.

Ideas?

Comments

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

My favourite salad could barely be called a salad. It's just sliced tomato and sliced cucumber on a plate, with some vinegar and (fresh, ideally) basil. Maybe add some ground black pepper if you're feeling fancy. It does have the notable benefit of being brain-numbingly easy, though it's more of a summer thing, as neither the tomatoes nor the cucumbers are at their best in the winter.

[dizietsma.livejournal.com]

Swap the cucumber for mozarella (proper mozarella, in a bag of liquid not dry like cheddar) and you have tomato caprese, yummy :)