Making Salad

Big salads work for me, too. A well received caesar salad is always easy; plain or with the addition of chicken, salmon, steak, even eggplant. I love roasted beet salads with blue cheese, walnuts or pecans, greens and vinaigrette. For most green salads I like to add a plethora of fresh vegetables, all the "a" ones, like asparagus, artichokes, and avocado; I also like to add frozen peas and also julienned beets. Salad Nicoise is great, with tuna, potatoes, green beans, hard boiled egg, vinaigrette. A really good salad is greens, apples, oranges, raisins, craisins, blue cheese and avocado, candied pecans; I like it with extra blue cheese dressing or vinaigrette. There are several good Greek Salads that are hearty, as in tomato, lettuce (or omit lettuce), cucumber, feta cheese and greek olives, vinaigrette with lemon and/or vinegar. A standard French salad called russian salad is chopped vegetables with a mayonnaise dressing. There are also varied Russian salads with boiled egg and veggies, too. Standard tuna, chicken and seafood salads are great and filling, especially with addition of fresh veggies and/or fruit. Waldorf salad is classic - apples, celery, walnuts, raisins and mayo dressing. Add - ins can be cheese, other fruits. I make a big fruit salad with citrus, berries, bananas, etc. and what is called grenadine dressing and I serve it with tea sandwiches. Cobb salads are filling, with chicken, bacon, avocado, egg, tomatoes and lettuce, blue cheese. A plain lettuce wedge with baby tomatoes and blue cheese dressing is good. Then, of course, there are all the variations on potato salads and coleslaws. I've made good taco salads with just beans and greens, or adding beef, with cheese, olives, salsa, avocado,sour cream, tomatoes. I also make rice salads with scallions, celery, tomatoes, peppers, mayo type dressings and any other fresh veggies available. Pasta salads are big and filling. I make one with chicken, broccoli, tomatoes and sundried tomatoes, fresh basil and mayo dressing. Another has broccoli, tomatoes, scallions and a soy and lemon dressing. Orzo salads are also good.

Well it depends on what kind of salad I'm making. I usually plan on what I will make and go to the store and buy what I need. I live alone, and make enough salad to send to my daughters house for her and the girls, and I still have enough for a few days for myself.

I usually jut put in whateer I have on hand. I like just aout anything in and on my salads. They are are all tasty. I enjoy them.

Well I have to make the salads really big, if i don't, i'm going to be starving the rest of the day... :)