Salad - It can be anything from fruit to veggies to protein based!
What is the true meaning of a salad? Many immediately picture a pile of lettuce with a few other items like tomato, onion, a cucumber slice or two and a few croutons and topped with a dressing. Oh how boring! Let's look at the variety of salads and how exciting they can really be!
Fruit Salad at a local resturant in a small town.
What are some of types of salads?
This is just a basic idea list - imagination is good.
Greens Combination with VegetableFruit
Meat, Poultry, & Seafood
Pasta, Egg and Cheese
Molded/Congealed
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Some recommendations for combinations of greens
Some of these are things that we often don't think of using but a great addition.
Lettuce, chicory, uncooked spinach, chivesDandelion greens, watercress, spring onions
Uncooked spinach, chopped onion, parsley
Romaine, watercress, parsley, hard-cooked egg
Lettuce, chicory, escarole, chives
Green pepper, lettuce, watercress, romaine, bacon bits
Lettuce, basil, parsley, cucumber slices
Lettuce, chicory, romaine, tomato sections
Lettuce, basil, parsley, cucumber slices
Lettuce, thyme, cooked green beans, pimento strips
Parsley, endive, hard-cooked egg, spring onions
Lettuce, chicory, watercress, carrot slices
Lettuce, uncooked spinach, carrots, watercress, radishes
Lettuce can be iceberg lettuce, many varieties of leaf lettuce, buttercrisp, Chinese cabbage and more.
Other vegetables that are often used:
Boiled or raw asparagus
Cabbage, red or white
Boiled cauliflower or raw
Celery
Potatoes
Peppers, red, green, and yellow
Red beets
Broccali - raw or steamed
Salad in the discussion World!
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- If you would like to make this fabulous fruit salad this summer go to our recipe page.
Fruit Salads and Fruit Salad Combinations
Only suggestions - the best idea is fruit in season and in your area.
Watermelon, muskmelon, honeydewWatermelon, strawberries, grapes - red &/or green, muskmelon, banana
Apples, celery, raisens, pineapple with creamy dressing
Peach half on lettuce, with pecans and a spring of cheddar
Pear on lettuce with cottage cheese a sprinkle of grated cheese
Canteloupe, pineapple, apple, strawberries
Meat, seafood, and chicken Salads
This is usually a great summer meal because they are cool and refreshing for a hot day.
In general most of this type salad will start with the protein source (meat, seafood,or chicken), veggies like celery, sweet peppers (any color), a bit of onion, and chopped hard-cooked eggs. The dressing will vary as much the final seasoning and dressing. This salad is often served on a bed of lettuce with crackers or crusty bread.Recipes abound for the variation and they are all delicious! (Have you guessed yet that I like salad?)
An example of this meat salad is a favorite at many fast food resturants in the form of Taco salad.
Pasta Salad
The salads go on and on
Cooked cooled pasta is a good side dish or add the meat and make it the meal. The basics for Pasta salad - Pasta of your imagination with so many varieties available, often added celery, chopped egg, onion, green peppers or pimento, cheese in cubes or shredded, sometimes peas, asparagus, cucumber, and tomatoes. Molded and Congealed Salad - a thing of the past or the elite?
Not as often used - but it might be a time thing
There was a time when Mothers stayed home, not working outside the home or being a WAHM on the internet or otherwise. I think this was the time of the ever popular congealed and molded salads. Some were quite works of art. That is just my theory that people got much busier and quite frankly these salads must be made ahead, sometimes with various layers and addition. Time consuming.You still see these some and often on a buffet table that is catered. Molded shapes are often seafood molds - might be a Salmon Mousse in the shape of a fish. Cranberries layered with gelatin, cream cheese layer, and another of cranberries, chopped nuts with ground orange makes a lovely ring mold at the holidays.
Dressings, mayonnaise, and toppings
Just how to top off a salad
Although over all most salads are quite healthy and low calorie when we add dressing and toppings we add an unrecognized amount of calories.
In most cases people buy bottles dressing and mayonnaise to use in binding heavier salad like pasta, potato and meat salads. It is possible to make your own. You can show your creativity and add those special flavors you like in your for mildness or spiciness. With the variety available I would just say try a few and keep a few various dressing on hand.
In addition to dressing many add toppings:
croutons (butter soaked and seasoned bread cubes)
cheese - your chose in shredded or cubed
nuts or seed such as sunflower
bacon bits
seasoned Chinese noodles as crumbles
In most cases people buy bottles dressing and mayonnaise to use in binding heavier salad like pasta, potato and meat salads. It is possible to make your own. You can show your creativity and add those special flavors you like in your for mildness or spiciness. With the variety available I would just say try a few and keep a few various dressing on hand.
In addition to dressing many add toppings:
croutons (butter soaked and seasoned bread cubes)
cheese - your chose in shredded or cubed
nuts or seed such as sunflower
bacon bits
seasoned Chinese noodles as crumbles
Salads are variety and add good nutrition to the balance of a diet. What is your favorite type of salad?
Share your story if you have one about a favorite salad you found somewhere or have built yourself.
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- partybuzz partybuzz Sep 22, 2009 @ 8:37 am
- My husband has a salad every day for lunch. Always the same...head lettuce, romain, brocolli, califlower, radish, onions, craisins, walnuts, cheese, bacon bits, thousand island dressing. It's the Ken Special. He's converted a couple friends to the same salad. Love your lens!
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- italianheart92 italianheart92 Jun 27, 2009 @ 8:37 am
- Great lens that looks really good! Chicken caesar salad all the way! :)
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- Margo_Arrowsmith Margo_Arrowsmith Nov 29, 2008 @ 9:12 pm
- Great review of the salad! I am featuring it on Waldorf Salad . and 5* to you!
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- mdvaldosta mdvaldosta Oct 28, 2008 @ 9:33 pm
- Wow, I'll never look at salad the same again. Definately a 5 star lens when it comes to making me hungry!
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- kathypi kathypi Oct 24, 2008 @ 9:13 pm
- i love salads! will refer to often, i'm not too good at making salads, i think your lens will help, thanks kathy
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