"Pico Rico" > wrote in message
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> "Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:39:51 -0700, "Pico Rico" >
>> wrote:
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>>>
>>>"Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
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>>>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 00:20:05 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Would this work?
>>>>>
>>>>>I have a recipe that I have been making for years. It's basically a
>>>>>lot
>>>>>of
>>>>>different raw veggies, cut up unless they are small to begin with.
>>>>>Cubes
>>>>>of
>>>>>Swiss Cheese, slices of hard salami, fresh chopped parsley, olives,
>>>>>Italian
>>>>>dressing and large shell pasta. Angela found a similar recipe that has
>>>>>no
>>>>>meat or cheese but beans instead and a different shape of pasta. So I
>>>>>make
>>>>>these types of salad several times a year, especially when I need to
>>>>>make
>>>>>for a crowd.
>>>>>
>>>>>But what I have now and need to use up is some summer sausage. Would
>>>>>this
>>>>>work in such a dish? I think I also might have some sort of salami but
>>>>>it
>>>>>isn't the hard kind. I know that will work but it tends to break down
>>>>>as
>>>>>the salad sits.
>>>>>
>>>>>If I do use the sausage, should I use a different kind of cheese and/or
>>>>>dressing? I have a couple of chunks of good cheddar that I could cube
>>>>>up.
>>>>>Just not sure how that would work with Italian. I also have Honey
>>>>>Mustard,
>>>>>Ranch and a simple olive oil and vinegar type. The natives were
>>>>>ripping
>>>>>through salad like crazy and now that it's hot you'd think that would
>>>>>be
>>>>>what they'd want. But no. Salad consumption has slowed and one of
>>>>>them
>>>>>has
>>>>>quit eating dressing again. At least the dressing I have was cheap.
>>>>
>>>> summer sausage and salami are birds of a feather. No reason why not
>>>> to use either.
>>>
>>>I love Salami, but detest summer sausage. Birds of a feather, you say?
>>>I
>>>think not!
>>>
>> you are making an assumption that all summer sausage tastes alike and
>> all salami tastes alike. Every butcher and sausage maker has their
>> own special tweak. However, summer sausage is more like salami than
>> bologna or a thousand other sausages. Fact is, what she is making is
>> a pasta take-off on a Chef's salad. In such a salad, whatever meat
>> and cheese floats your boat works.
>> Janet US
>
> of course anyone can do as they please. But different salami types are
> still salami, and different summer sausage types are still summer sausage.
> You will not find a type of summer sausage that is more like salami than
> some type of salami is. Yes, I suppose summer sausage is more like salami
> that it is like cantaloupe too.

I just didn't know if the taste would be right or if it would fall to
pieces. I won't be eating it so want to make something that husband would
eat.