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

[le-maistre-e.livejournal.com]

Mache is great in a salad. Also that European blend you can buy in the same place as the mache (see, there's one of those chapeau accents on the "a" in that, but, try as I might, just can't seem to find it on this keyboard). Our favorite dressing is balsamic reduction. Expensive, but well, WELL worth it. Also known as balsamic glaze, sometimes. Re nuts: I'm a fan of sunflower seeds with my salads. Also, we should sit down and talk about this or go grocery shopping together.