Best salad EVER!
Jul. 13th, 2007 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahmichiganOK, this might not be the best salad I've ever eaten (I've had some awesome dinner salads at various restaurants before), but it's maybe the favorite one I've ever made for myself.
I love Greek salads for the romaine lettuce, feta cheese, banana peppers, greek dressing, and beets (beets, I hear, are not a Greek salad staple everywhere, but they're nearly-ubiquitous in Detroit-area Greek salads), but I'm not a huge fan of olives or large chunks of raw tomato. So, I made my own version today and brought it to work for lunch:
-1.5 cups of mixed spring greens
-A couple tablespoons of goat cheese salad crumbles (very goaty/creamy, more so than most commercial feta)
-Half a dozen slivers of yellow bell pepper
-Half a dozen thinly sliced rounds of red onion
-Full-fat Italian dressing (because I didn't have any Greek dressing at hand)
OHMIGOD so good!!!
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effy just posted her lower-fat version of a taco salad recipe, and I may have to try that out at some point. As she notes, taco salads are good, but when made traditionally, can be fattier and more unhealthy than a double cheeseburger with bacon.
I love Greek salads for the romaine lettuce, feta cheese, banana peppers, greek dressing, and beets (beets, I hear, are not a Greek salad staple everywhere, but they're nearly-ubiquitous in Detroit-area Greek salads), but I'm not a huge fan of olives or large chunks of raw tomato. So, I made my own version today and brought it to work for lunch:
-1.5 cups of mixed spring greens
-A couple tablespoons of goat cheese salad crumbles (very goaty/creamy, more so than most commercial feta)
-Half a dozen slivers of yellow bell pepper
-Half a dozen thinly sliced rounds of red onion
-Full-fat Italian dressing (because I didn't have any Greek dressing at hand)
OHMIGOD so good!!!
effy just posted her lower-fat version of a taco salad recipe, and I may have to try that out at some point. As she notes, taco salads are good, but when made traditionally, can be fattier and more unhealthy than a double cheeseburger with bacon.
