Meal type salad ideas?

[freemotion]

We get into cobb salad kicks now and again. You can put in anything you like, really, but I use big dinner plates and build the salads right on the plates. I make stripes of the ingredients across the plates: Chunks of chicken or turkey (if there are no leftovers available, I will go to the deli and ask for a 1/2 inch thick slice of turkey breast and cube it....if they don't have any "ends" available for $2 per pound), romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cukes, avacado slices, crispy bacon, boiled egg wedges or devilled eggs, and something pickled like olives or hearts of palm or artichoke hearts....better yet, something fermented. Choice of salad dressing. This is really too filling for me sometimes, but dh LOVES it.

When nice stuff is available, sometimes I will run a bunch of colorful veggies through the food processor and toss it all with homemade dressing. Things like carrots, rutabaga, jicima go through the shredder blade. Things like cukes, green beans, sugar snaps, etc, go through the slicer blade. Sort of like a chunky cole slaw but with my favorite Italian dressing from garden herbs.

Don't forget my colorful cabbage-free coleslaw, too, somewhere on this forum. Super yummy with pineapple for a bit of sweetness.

 

[Ldychef2k]

I get it at a local chain supermarket. I think any low acid slightly sweet vinegar would work, though. From experience, balsalmic doesn't suit this salad at all !!!

Ladychef, where do you find champange wine vinegar?

 

[Dace]

Ohhhhhhh Sally that fish salad is an awesome idea!!

Another dressing idea is a take off on the white sauce...yogurt with lime juice...with the jalapeno, ginger and garlic. Gonna have to save that one.

I love everyone ideas....very creative things that I never would have thought of!