Salads

I much prefer my own vinaigrettes / dressings.

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No idea! I only see the recipes from them that show up here, for the most part. :woman_shrugging:

Yes , they did.


Pasta salad.
Grilled peppers/zucchini/eggplant, hot Italian sausage, last of the leftover rotisserie chicken, pickled red onions, diced tomato, roasted garlic and oil, lots of Parm/Regg and a splash of red wine vinegar on a bed of romaine lettuce.
Pretty much all of the prep was done yesterday, and all I had to do was put it together and dress it this morning.

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Mine, using cooked pigeon peas

Theirs

I still plan to add some nuts.

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Choriatiki.

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I love that recipe, try to remember to make it a couple of times a year, usually with RG alubias blancas. Thanks for the reminder!

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Which one is it that you and @linguafood didn’t like? The house dressing? 2 strikes (from people I feel like I have a pretty good idea of their palates) are sufficient for me to avoid a recipe!

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Lunch today was a celery and radish salad with casaveltrano olives and parm shards. Dressed with oo and lemon juice. There has been amazing celery at the farmers market- dark green, lots of leaves - and this salad is the perfect way to use it! Slightly overcooked hard boiled egg on the side.

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Maybe it was a case of overblown expectations. I mean… the odes to that dressing and the salad itself alone made me think this was going to be the shiznit.

It was truly just ok. I do add a tsp of water to my vinaigrettes now, and find that it smooths / rounds out the flavor. Other than that? Eh.

ETA: Sorry, the Via Carota clone or whatever it was. I haven’t tried the others, although I am intrigued by the lemon miso dressing. I have a bunch of white miso in the fridge, and I love lemon.

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Yes it was the house dressing, which is identical to the Via Carota recipe. I can’t remember now what it was I didn’t like about it, but I remember I tried to fix it and nothing worked.

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I’m happy with my own vinaigrettes so no need to try something no one here was gushing about! I’ll likely try te miso dressing. Seems right up my alley.

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More dressing ideas:

TBH seeing the word “healthy” in the context of a recipe or a menu item scares me. I’ve always done “healthy” pretty well just on common sense. But that’s just me., YMMV. :joy:

My guess is using “unhealthy” instead might result in fewer hits.

And the Mediterranean diet is known to be So Healthy :wink:

Beet and spinach salad with a side schnitzel

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I did the HO half sour pickle challenge so, yada-yada-yada and I made this half sour pickle salad.

It’s good, and supposed to keep a week!

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Local heirloom tomatoes with shallot, fresh parsley, s&p, olive oil & RWV.

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