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Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 25th, 2011, 3:41 pm
by EarlJam
Okay, the lettuce is a given. The dressing can be whatever you want it to be. What of the following four items (yes, you only get four) will you choose to put onto your lettuce?
-EarlJam
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 25th, 2011, 3:53 pm
by CathyCA
Cheese, croutons, broccoli and bacon.
You forgot to put bacon on the list of choices.
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 25th, 2011, 3:57 pm
by DukeUsul
Raw broccoli on a salad? BLECH!
Carrots, cukes, olives and Italian meats. Yum!
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 25th, 2011, 4:02 pm
by EarlJam
DukeUsul wrote:Raw broccoli on a salad? BLECH!
Carrots, cukes, olives and Italian meats. Yum!
I totally forgot about adding meat options. If you need meat, just pick "other."
Respectfully,
-Earlith of the Jammith
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 25th, 2011, 4:28 pm
by lawgrad91
My family would disown me if they saw me eating a salad without carrots (although I do enjoy a wedge salad from time to time).
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 25th, 2011, 4:30 pm
by wilson
Tomatoes, cucumbers, croutons, and carrots.
Motion: The four winning options, plus lettuce, should be officially deemed a "CTN salad" (to be referenced profusely in the Recipe Thread and elsewhere).
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 25th, 2011, 4:32 pm
by bjornolf
I usually put carrots, croutons, bacon, cheese, cherry tomatoes, and broccoli, but since I had to choose only four, I went with cheese, croutons, carrots, and other (for bacon). Has to be the "real" bacon bits...bacos are just nasty.
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 25th, 2011, 5:42 pm
by captmojo
The fruit of choice in my salad is pineapple.
I couldn't click 'other' twice.
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 25th, 2011, 8:18 pm
by OZZIE4DUKE
Cheese, usually cheddar, tomatoes, cukes, green peppers and I really like pineapple pieces or other sweet fruit in it too. I also like raisins and nuts in the salad. A few croutons are nice, but only a few. Limit me to only four choices and I'll take the cheese, tomato, green pepper and pineapple.
And for dressings, I like to mix Thousand Island and Catalina French together. Don't knock it until you try it. I'm about to an iceberg lettuce salad with Vidalia Onion dressing on it. That's good too!
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 26th, 2011, 8:18 am
by Miles
I went with cheese (bleu), olives, tomatoes, nuts (toasted pine nuts).
Also, lettuce isn't a given. I'll take baby spinach or some other leafy green instead please.
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 26th, 2011, 8:48 am
by Very Duke Blue
Tomatoes, broccoli, cukes and carrots. I usually put in nuts and sweet onion and mushrooms. It really depends on what I have in the fridge to what goes in my salad.
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 26th, 2011, 4:15 pm
by DukieInKansas
Tomatoes, cucumbers (but it really pained me to have to click next to pickles - blech!), nuts (honeyed almond slivers, sweetened pecans), carrots.
I would go with baby spinach over lettuce. Throw in some dried cranberries and I'm very happy. Salad dressing choice would be olive oil and a flavored balsamic vinegar.
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 26th, 2011, 4:23 pm
by wilson
DukieInKansas wrote:pickles - blech!
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 26th, 2011, 5:19 pm
by captmojo
wilson wrote:DukieInKansas wrote:pickles - blech!
Shhhh!
Some here, enjoy deep fried pickles.
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 26th, 2011, 5:49 pm
by DukeUsul
I absolutely adore pickles, but they wouldn't be my first addition to a salad.
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 26th, 2011, 5:55 pm
by wilson
DukeUsul wrote:I absolutely adore pickles, but they wouldn't be my first addition to a salad.
+1 to all of this, but my point from above remains: If you don't like pickles, you must be some kind of damned Communist.
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 26th, 2011, 9:01 pm
by colchar
wilson wrote:DukeUsul wrote:I absolutely adore pickles, but they wouldn't be my first addition to a salad.
+1 to all of this, but my point from above remains: If you don't like pickles, you must be some kind of damned Communist.
Do pickled onions count as pickles? If so, then I like them but I don't like any other pickles.
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 26th, 2011, 9:05 pm
by colchar
For me a salad (assuming we're not dealing with any specialty salads like a Caesar or whatever) is: lettuce, cheddar, croutons, chow mein noodles (the fried ones), bacon bits, sometimes hard-boiled egg, either French or Thousand Island dressing, and if French dressing is used some grated parmesan.
I also like to add some ham or whatever to make it a nice julienne salad.
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 26th, 2011, 9:06 pm
by colchar
wilson wrote:
Motion: The four winning options, plus lettuce, should be officially deemed a "CTN salad" (to be referenced profusely in the Recipe Thread and elsewhere).
Seconded.
Re: Toss Your Salad!
Posted: January 26th, 2011, 11:00 pm
by Miles
Put me in the camp with pickle lovers as long as they're not on my salad. I could imagine a few varieties of salads that would benefit from cornichons, but not many.