Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
> I just made a really simple but delicious salad for lunch - 1 cup baby
> lettuce mix, 1 cup baby spinach, 1 boiled egg, an inch of cucumber
> (peeled and diced), half a dozen baby mushrooms, and a tablespoon of
> aged balsamic dressing. The whole bowl only had 110 calories and it
> was delicious AND healthy! (okay, the piece of fried chicken I had
> with it wasn't healthy, but it was still yummy!)
>
> I'm eating a salad almost every day because it's so diet-friendly and
> full of vitamins and fiber. What's your favourite salad?


Romaine lettuce hearts and chopped broccoli florets, with red onions,
grated sharp cheese, bacon bits, a boiled egg (sometimes), and croûtons.
Dress with reduced fat Thousand Island dressing and Tabasco sauce. If
there's any kind of cold leftover roast meat in the fridge, I'll use
that instead of the bacon bits.

When I was a kid, we grew multiplying onions and I used to love them in
salads -- just iceberg lettuce, multiplying onions, and a little Miracle
Whip. Maybe a few radishes for color. The onions did not taste like
scallions, they tasted more like shallots. I can't find anything like
them anymore. (I wonder if they *were* shallots and just never bloomed
or went dormant in south Texas because the days never got long enough to
trigger it?)

Bob