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

[sultrysong.livejournal.com]

The first thing you must do is banish iceberg lettuce. Try romaine, or arugula, or any of the thousand other types. They have flavour and texture and yummy goodness. We haven't had iceberg in our house since ... well, since we got the lizard two years ago. I mean, he only eats romaine, why should we dine on the tasteless stuff?

Okay, so we've determined I'm a lettuce snob. I've got my lettuce freak on. I'll leave the rest to my wife (who will probably tell you to add capers to salad).

Oh, and I'm so glad you got mileage out of The Boy's jokes!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Iceberg forsooth!

No, I use all sorts of different kinds, although I favour Romaine and Frisée.

I am sadly not a huge fan of capers. :(

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

hear hear! Romaine is my favourite! ... and spinach. ... and Boston ... and mixed baby greens ...

... alright, so I can eat lettuce like an apple, what of it?!