In my travels today, I wound up at Whole Foods. For some
reason, I noticed the salad bar today, and thought ... maybe
I should make a salad to go with the ribs for dinner. What a
gorgeous salad I saw, I had to have it. I took a picture of it so
I can try to recreate it for myself sometime.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4ckvl8k

Cucumber, grape tomatoes, red onion, yellow pepper,
parsley, oil and vinegar, salt and pepper, and parsley.

Maybe I'm missing something. At any rate, it was so refreshing,
and so pretty the way they shaved (peeled? zested?) the cukes.

nancy

On Apr 16, 5:05�pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
> In my travels today, I wound up at Whole Foods. *For some
> reason, I noticed the salad bar today, and thought ... maybe
> I should make a salad to go with the ribs for dinner. *What a
> gorgeous salad I saw, I had to have it. *I took a picture of it so
> I can try to recreate it for myself sometime.
>
> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4ckvl8k
>
> Cucumber, grape tomatoes, red onion, yellow pepper,
> parsley, oil and vinegar, salt and pepper, and parsley.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something. *At any rate, it was so refreshing,
> and so pretty the way they shaved (peeled? *zested?) the cukes.
>
> nancy

That is one reason I love shopping at Whole Foods, or Central Market.
The produce is beautiful, and arranged so decorativly that you can't
wait to buy it.
Rosie

On Apr 16, 6:05�pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
> In my travels today, I wound up at Whole Foods. *For some
> reason, I noticed the salad bar today, and thought ... maybe
> I should make a salad to go with the ribs for dinner. *What a
> gorgeous salad I saw, I had to have it. *I took a picture of it so
> I can try to recreate it for myself sometime.
>
> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4ckvl8k
>
> Cucumber, grape tomatoes, red onion, yellow pepper,
> parsley, oil and vinegar, salt and pepper, and parsley.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something. *At any rate, it was so refreshing,
> and so pretty the way they shaved (peeled? *zested?) the cukes.

Nice but needs some greens, and I'd add some sliced egg with caviar,
actually salmon roe drizzled over the egg slices would be loverly.
Don't complain, at first I was thinking beets. hehe

Sheldon wrote:
> On Apr 16, 6:05?pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>> In my travels today, I wound up at Whole Foods. For some
>> reason, I noticed the salad bar today, and thought ... maybe
>> I should make a salad to go with the ribs for dinner. What a
>> gorgeous salad I saw, I had to have it. I took a picture of it so
>> I can try to recreate it for myself sometime.
>>
>> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4ckvl8k
>>
>> Cucumber, grape tomatoes, red onion, yellow pepper,
>> parsley, oil and vinegar, salt and pepper, and parsley.
>>
>> Maybe I'm missing something. At any rate, it was so refreshing,
>> and so pretty the way they shaved (peeled? zested?) the cukes.
>
> Nice but needs some greens

Is the fresh spinach scare completely out of the way now? If so I'd put it
on a bed of spinach or something similar, if nothing else then for
presentation purposes. But what do I know, I don't like salad! I do like
pretty pictures, though

Jill

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:05:52 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
wrote:

>In my travels today, I wound up at Whole Foods. For some
>reason, I noticed the salad bar today, and thought ... maybe
>I should make a salad to go with the ribs for dinner. What a
>gorgeous salad I saw, I had to have it. I took a picture of it so
>I can try to recreate it for myself sometime.
>
>http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4ckvl8k
>
>Cucumber, grape tomatoes, red onion, yellow pepper,
>parsley, oil and vinegar, salt and pepper, and parsley.
>
>Maybe I'm missing something. At any rate, it was so refreshing,
>and so pretty the way they shaved (peeled? zested?) the cukes.

What a pretty, colorful salad. It looks like Summer. I could eat a
big dish of that and some bread, maybe some cheese, and I would be
happy. I rarely go to Whole Foods because I have no self control at
that store. Everything is so appealing.

Tara

"Steve Wertz" > wrote

> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:05:52 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> In my travels today, I wound up at Whole Foods. For some
>> reason, I noticed the salad bar today, and thought ... maybe
>> I should make a salad to go with the ribs for dinner. What a
>> gorgeous salad I saw, I had to have it. I took a picture of it so
>> I can try to recreate it for myself sometime.
>>
>> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4ckvl8k
>
> The same salad would be 1/5th the price when you make it at home.
> Whole Foods here would have charged $8/lb for that salad. The
> individual vegetables would have been ~$1.40/lb at a regular
> supermarket.

Well, I bought .8lb. To make it I would have had to buy
1 cucumber, 1 red onion, 1 yellow pepper, a container of grape
tomatoes. Parsley. Could I have bought all that for $6.40?
Maybe.

> I usually only eat at salad bars that are $5/lb or less. And
> even then I'd usually buy my dressing separately from the grocery
> shelves. A known good dressing, like Girards.

This really was vinegar with a touch of oil. No expense there.
Aside from my unrelated problem of finding the white wine
vinegar I ran out of last week.

Regardless, I didn't buy it based on price, I bought it because
it just looked so damm good. I took note of the ingredients so
I could recreate it for myself. I'll even fork the cuke ... which ... now
I'm wondering, would English cucumber be good for this? Hmmm.

nancy

(Nancy*Young)
>wrote:
>In my travels today, I wound up at Whole Foods.
>For some reason, I noticed the salad bar today, and
>thought ... maybe I should make a salad to go
>with the ribs for dinner. What a gorgeous salad I
>saw, I had to have it. I took a picture
>of it so I can try to recreate it for
>myself sometime.
>http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4ckvl8k
>Cucumber, grape tomatoes, red onion, yellow pepper, parsley, oil and
>vinegar, salt and pepper, and parsley.
>Maybe I'm missing something. At any rate, it was so
>refreshing, and so pretty the way they shaved (peeled? zested?)
>the cukes.
>nancy

------------------------------------------------------
Looks nice but really needs greens as one poster said.

Once in a while few years back we use to take home a salad from our
local grocery store which had a huge salad bar but got way too expensive
even with the small take out containers.

Couple years ago our board of heath went around various local grocery
stores- both inner city & suburban stores- and took back to their labs
sides from both the salad bars and those free samplers you find on deli
counters and samplers people pass out in stores.

After hearing the results of lab finds we will NEVER again even look at
any salad bars nor taste free samplers in any grocery stores even Whole
Foods which opened a new store 3 miles from us and looking forward to my
first visit.

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:55:49 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
wrote:

>
>"Steve Wertz" > wrote

>> The same salad would be 1/5th the price when you make it at home.
>> Whole Foods here would have charged $8/lb for that salad. The
>> individual vegetables would have been ~$1.40/lb at a regular
>> supermarket.
>
>Well, I bought .8lb. To make it I would have had to buy
>1 cucumber, 1 red onion, 1 yellow pepper, a container of grape
>tomatoes. Parsley. Could I have bought all that for $6.40?
>Maybe.

>Regardless, I didn't buy it based on price, I bought it because
>it just looked so damm good. I took note of the ingredients so
>I could recreate it for myself. I'll even fork the cuke ... which ... now
>I'm wondering, would English cucumber be good for this? Hmmm.
>
>nancy
I hear ya there. I am just flabbergasted at the prices of things
here...at least here in Richmond. Even stores unlike Whole Foods
charge an arm and a leg for stuff like that. Seems like the farther
you go west in this country, the cheaper the veggies become. Even in
NM I could probably get all those ingredients for less than half that
price.

And yes, English cucumbers would be very good, I would think.

Christine

"Christine Dabney" > wrote

> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:55:49 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
> wrote:

>>Well, I bought .8lb. To make it I would have had to buy
>>1 cucumber, 1 red onion, 1 yellow pepper, a container of grape
>>tomatoes. Parsley. Could I have bought all that for $6.40?
>>Maybe.

> I hear ya there. I am just flabbergasted at the prices of things
> here...at least here in Richmond. Even stores unlike Whole Foods
> charge an arm and a leg for stuff like that. Seems like the farther
> you go west in this country, the cheaper the veggies become. Even in
> NM I could probably get all those ingredients for less than half that
> price.

We had that discussion once. I don't remember the specifics, but
someone was making the point about You could just buy all that
stuff for 3 bucks. Whatever. I actually pulled out the weekly
circular and posted the prices from local stores. People in California
have it good with the produce prices.

> And yes, English cucumbers would be very good, I would think.

Thanks, Christine! (laugh)

nancy

On Apr 16, 6:05 pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
> In my travels today, I wound up at Whole Foods. For some
> reason, I noticed the salad bar today, and thought ... maybe
> I should make a salad to go with the ribs for dinner. What a
> gorgeous salad I saw, I had to have it. I took a picture of it so
> I can try to recreate it for myself sometime.
>
> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4ckvl8k
>
> Cucumber, grape tomatoes, red onion, yellow pepper,
> parsley, oil and vinegar, salt and pepper, and parsley.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something. At any rate, it was so refreshing,
> and so pretty the way they shaved (peeled? zested?) the cukes.
>
> nancy

yeah, maybe a little splash of salt?
nice salad

I went to a nice seafood place fer lunch yesterday.. supposed to be
tops
I had the broiled trout, but the veggies where waaaay overcooked. they
were done in garlic and butter which is fine BUT SWIMMING IN IT? pfft!
the hell they know about fine dining, I shoulda slapped the cook for
destroying the veggies.

"ms. tonya" > wrote

(Nancy Young)

>>with the ribs for dinner. What a gorgeous salad I
>>saw, I had to have it. I took a picture
>>of it so I can try to recreate it for
>>myself sometime.
>>http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4ckvl8k
>>Cucumber, grape tomatoes, red onion, yellow pepper, parsley, oil and
>>vinegar, salt and pepper, and parsley.

>Looks nice but really needs greens as one poster said.

I meant to respond to that, didn't get around to it.

When I make cucumber tomato salad, which I do all
summer, I don't put greens in it. I like it like that. To each their
own, of course.

>Once in a while few years back we use to take home a salad from our
>local grocery store which had a huge salad bar but got way too expensive
>even with the small take out containers.

>Couple years ago our board of heath went around various local grocery
>stores- both inner city & suburban stores- and took back to their labs
>sides from both the salad bars and those free samplers you find on deli
>counters and samplers people pass out in stores.

>After hearing the results of lab finds we will NEVER again even look at
>any salad bars nor taste free samplers in any grocery stores even Whole
>Foods which opened a new store 3 miles from us and looking forward to my
>first visit.

I know, I know. We're surrounded by germs. Everything they test,
nasty germs all over the place. I'm living on the edge. Heh.

nancy

On Apr 18, 1:52 am, (ms. tonya) wrote:

> ------------------------------------------------------
> Looks nice but really needs greens as one poster said.

Not by definition of a salad, but as brainwashed americans.. yes.. a
salad sposed to have greens.

so long as it's spinach or field greens, not ice-berg sit on your
stomach and rot lettuce.

"Steve Wertz" > wrote

> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:55:49 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> "Steve Wertz" > wrote
>
>>> The same salad would be 1/5th the price when you make it at home.
>>> Whole Foods here would have charged $8/lb for that salad. The
>>> individual vegetables would have been ~$1.40/lb at a regular
>>> supermarket.
>>
>> Well, I bought .8lb. To make it I would have had to buy
>> 1 cucumber, 1 red onion, 1 yellow pepper, a container of grape
>> tomatoes. Parsley. Could I have bought all that for $6.40?
>> Maybe.
>
> $5.50 for all that here in Austin. But it would have made about
> 2.5-3lbs worth, with tomatoes and parsley to spare.

I was on the opposite side of the store, and there was the salad.

> I just have this thing about Whole Foods prices.

I can understand that. I shop there for a few specific items.
Once I got a container of chili, that cost. But it's not like they
sprung it on me, the prices are listed right there.

> Here in Austin
> the prices are astronomical (probably to make up for all the
> half-price and free food they provide for their 5 floors of
> bloated corporate offices above their store). Half the people
> that eat and shop there are employees, it seems.

You said that before, that the prices are even higher at the flagship
store. Can't imagine why they'd do that.

nancy

On Apr 18, 1:36 am, Steve Wertz > wrote:
Half the people
> that eat and shop there are employees, it seems.
>
> -sw

that's not economically possible 40 watt

"Nancy Young" wrote:
> "Steve Wertz" wrote
> > Nancy Young wrote:
>
> >> In my travels today, I wound up at Whole Foods. *For some
> >> reason, I noticed the salad bar today, and thought ... maybe
> >> I should make a salad to go with the ribs for dinner. *What a
> >> gorgeous salad I saw, I had to have it. *I took a picture of it so
> >> I can try to recreate it for myself sometime.
>
> >>http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4ckvl8k
>
> > The same salad would be 1/5th the price when you make it at home.
> > Whole Foods here would have charged $8/lb for that salad. *The
> > individual vegetables would have been ~$1.40/lb at a regular
> > supermarket.
>
> Well, I bought .8lb. *To make it I would have had to buy
> 1 cucumber, 1 red onion, 1 yellow pepper, a container of grape
> tomatoes. *Parsley. *Could I have bought all that for $6.40?
> Maybe.
>
> > I usually only eat at salad bars that are $5/lb or less. *And
> > even then I'd usually buy my dressing separately from the grocery
> > shelves. *A known good dressing, like Girards.
>
> This really was vinegar with a touch of oil. *No expense there.
> Aside from my unrelated problem of finding the white wine
> vinegar I ran out of last week.
>
> Regardless, I didn't buy it based on price, I bought it because
> it just looked so damm good. *

My concern is cleanliness and freshness, I've never bought a prepared
salad from a stupidmarket. I don't mind purchasing all the
ingredients and only using part... they'll still be fine to make other
salads later.

> I took note of the ingredients so
> I could recreate it for myself. *I'll even fork the cuke ... which ... now
> I'm wondering, would English cucumber be good for this? *Hmmm.

Well, depends on your forking preferences... the English cuke is
longer, but it's thinner and has fewer bumps... I think you'd enjoy a
zoftig kirby.

Sheldon

Barry wrote:
> On Apr 18, 1:52 am, (ms. tonya) wrote:
>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Looks nice but really needs greens as one poster said.
>
> Not by definition of a salad, but as brainwashed americans.. yes.. a
> salad sposed to have greens.
>
> so long as it's spinach or field greens, not ice-berg sit on your
> stomach and rot lettuce.
>
I must not be brainwashed enough yet <shrug>
Many salads contain no greens. Carrot raisin salad and waldorf salad are
two examples. Then you could have a lovely salad of nothing but tomatoes
and mozzarelle cheese (a Caprese salad) with a bit of basil.
The salad Nancy photographed at Whole Foods is a commonly made one in my
house in the summer. The addition of some nice calamata olives is good too.

On Apr 18, 12:36�am, Steve Wertz > wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:55:49 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
> > "Steve Wertz" > wrote
> >> The same salad would be 1/5th the price when you make it at home.
> >> Whole Foods here would have charged $8/lb for that salad. *The
> >> individual vegetables would have been ~$1.40/lb at a regular
> >> supermarket.
>
> > Well, I bought .8lb. *To make it I would have had to buy
> > 1 cucumber, 1 red onion, 1 yellow pepper, a container of grape
> > tomatoes. *Parsley. *Could I have bought all that for $6.40?
> > Maybe.
>
> $5.50 for all that here in Austin. *But it would have made about
> 2.5-3lbs worth, with tomatoes and parsley to spare.
>
> I just have this thing about Whole Foods prices. *Here in Austin
> the prices are astronomical (probably to make up for all the
> half-price and free food they provide for their 5 floors of
> bloated corporate offices above their store). *Half the people
> that eat and shop there are employees, it seems.
>
> -sw

My favorite market in Austin, is Central Market. I often stop and shop
on my way home from class. A few weeks ago they had strange looking
tomatoes, they were the heirloom tomatoes, great tasting, but sort of
unusual looking. I bought three.. 11.98 for three of them ( 5.98 a
pound )

Ordered some seeds and will grow them from now, on, but I am told they
were delicious and well worth the high price.

Rosie

On 2007-04-18, kilikini > wrote:

> And there's green papaya salad; one of my favs.

Hi kili! What's your fave dressing for this?

nb

Goomba38 wrote:
> Barry wrote:
>> On Apr 18, 1:52 am, (ms. tonya) wrote:
>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>> Looks nice but really needs greens as one poster said.
>>
>> Not by definition of a salad, but as brainwashed americans.. yes.. a
>> salad sposed to have greens.
>>
>> so long as it's spinach or field greens, not ice-berg sit on your
>> stomach and rot lettuce.
>>
> I must not be brainwashed enough yet <shrug>
> Many salads contain no greens. Carrot raisin salad and waldorf salad
> are two examples. Then you could have a lovely salad of nothing but
> tomatoes and mozzarelle cheese (a Caprese salad) with a bit of basil.
> The salad Nancy photographed at Whole Foods is a commonly made one in
> my house in the summer. The addition of some nice calamata olives is
> good too.

And there's green papaya salad; one of my favs. How about shrimp salad or
crab salad? Potato salad? No, not all "salads" contain greens.

kili

On 2007-04-18, kilikini > wrote:
> Cafe'" back on Maui. It was my absolute favorite dish and very inexpensive.

Sounds great.

> They juilliened green papaya........

Yep. Rent the movie, Scent of Green Paypaya. Great foodie movie with
lush cinemaphotography. More a mood movie than anything else, but
interesting to watch.

nb

Nancy Young wrote:
> "Christine Dabney" > wrote
>
>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:55:49 -0400, "Nancy Young"
>> > wrote:
>
>>> Well, I bought .8lb. To make it I would have had to buy
>>> 1 cucumber, 1 red onion, 1 yellow pepper, a container of grape
>>> tomatoes. Parsley. Could I have bought all that for $6.40?
>>> Maybe.
>
>> I hear ya there. I am just flabbergasted at the prices of things
>> here...at least here in Richmond. Even stores unlike Whole Foods
>> charge an arm and a leg for stuff like that. Seems like the farther
>> you go west in this country, the cheaper the veggies become. Even in
>> NM I could probably get all those ingredients for less than half that
>> price.
>
> We had that discussion once. I don't remember the specifics, but
> someone was making the point about You could just buy all that
> stuff for 3 bucks. Whatever. I actually pulled out the weekly
> circular and posted the prices from local stores. People in
> California have it good with the produce prices.
>
That's the funny thing. People always assume everyone has a TJ's, everyone
has a farmer's market/markets (or if they do have one, it must be
fantastic!), everyone has a food co-op, everyone can buy produce as cheaply
as they can. Even in the south, where prices are bound to be a bit lower
than in the colder climates to the north, it's nothing like what I hear the
folks to the west talking about. Also, it gets downright hot here for a
long stretch (usually) but there is a lot of stuff that isn't typically
grown around here. With the exception of small farms, the majority of the
farmland around here is dedicated to soybeans and yes, cotton (old times
here are not forgotten!).

Hope you enjoyed the salad! (Did you manage to artfully arrange it like it
was in the store?)

Jill

notbob wrote:
> On 2007-04-18, kilikini > wrote:
>
>> And there's green papaya salad; one of my favs.
>
> Hi kili! What's your fave dressing for this?
>
> nb

nb, it was almost a sweet & sour dressing - not spicy ('cause everyone knows
I don't do spicy). <g>

What I've had in the past used garlic, fish sauce, sugar, rice vinegar, and
I'm guessing some lime, but it could have been tart from the papaya alone,
oh, and I remember chopped peanuts. (I asked them once how they made it,
I'm trying to remember.) I used to order it all the time at "A Saigon
Cafe'" back on Maui. It was my absolute favorite dish and very inexpensive.
They juilliened green papaya, interspersed it with juliiened carrots and
cucumber and topped it with cilantro, fresh mint leaves and crispy shrimp -
not fried shrimp, but cooked until the outside of the shrimp was just
crispy, but the inside was perfectly done.

Hope you can come up with something from what I've written. It's a
fantastic dish and I need to make it, I just never have. I'd get it weekly,
so I didn't need to try. :~) I think it's time!!!!!

kili

On Apr 18, 8:57 am, Sheldon > wrote:

> My concern is cleanliness and freshness

so why don't you and jillo split a fresh summers eve.