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

[sparrowinsky.livejournal.com]

I don't eat salads often, and one of my favorites is basically piling everything in the fridge onto lettuce, but here's one that might work for you:

Wild/mixed greens (or romaine, or whatever-- I tend to go with dark greens, but I just like 'em), spinach, 1/4 or 1/2 a red onion, finely diced, one or two tomatoes, diced, mushrooms, chickpeas. I usually make a vinaigrette, either balsamic or honey-apple. Sometimes I'll squeeze a lemon onto it, or toss some bacon bits on. It's actually not bad with a few spoonfuls of cottage cheese, either.

Fairly simple, but it's nice and light for summertime eating :)