So I just ate a salad and thought I'd start a thread based on the thought of how good it was.

Which leads to two questions:

(1) How do you take your salad?

(2) What's your favorite dressing?

The salad I just ate was your staple bagged stuff, lettuce, slivers of carrot and eggplant; I added chopped boiled eggs, olives, and shredded cheddar cheese, then doused it in French dressing.

Which, by the way, is my favorite dressing by far. Though I also recently had a balsamic Italian dressing that was quite delicious.

On a side note, I fucking hate Ranch dressing more than, well, damned near anything? My first job was as a high school janitor, and on my first day, my first task was to go clean up a wall that some little prick had smothered in Ranch dressing. I'm still on the look-out for that little bastard, and if I ever catch him I'm gonna choke the life outta that little jerk.

I always like a nice gourmet caesar salad.

:mad: Baby Bibb FTW!!!

Lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, strawberries, oranges, pine nuts, cheese, honey mustard dressing.

Beetroot.
Feta.
Rocket.
Pine Nuts.
Balsamic vinegar.

Must have spinach.

Man this shit is disgusting. How the fuck can humans be this fucked up? This is an example of the travesty that is promotion of vegetation for food that has grown out of control in this nation. How do you eat that kind of shit? You must have been tortured in to it as a child, as if it is normal. Poor fucks.

I fucking lourveeee Caesar salad.

If there's no dressing around I'll just toss every veggie in the house into a bowl (usually spinach, avocado, carrot, cabbage, grilled up zucchini, leftovers and stuff) with some good extra virgin, and sometimes balsamic depending on what kinda mood I'm in.

Avocado is a must for salads.

Lobster salad, broccoli and raisin salad, green salads, caesar salads, fruit salads, potato salads, and spinach salads are some of my favourites.

I'd like to try taco salad sometime; it sounds good.

Lobster salad, broccoli and raisin salad, green salads, caesar salads, fruit salads, potato salads, and spinach salads are some of my favourites.

I'd like to try taco salad sometime; it sounds good.
I'm with you on this one, potato salad is fucking win.

Taco salad also rules. Haven't had it in a while, so I think I'll be going to one of the better restaurants serving it tomorrow!

I like my potato salad. Without the carbs a nice green salad (garden/casesar) with white wine vinaigrette is awesome. Personally I like my egg plant roasted.

Lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, strawberries, oranges, pine nuts, cheese, honey mustard dressing.

Hmmm that sounds really tasty, unusual, but tasty.

My staple salad is packaged baby mixed leaves, spinach leaves, lots of coriander, danish or greek fetta (this changes the salad drastically), marinated mixed olives, cherry tomatoes, shredded cheddar and some avocado. Douse it with Sweet balsamic and garlic dressing. Yum!

Do avocados grow in Austrailia?

My staple salad is packaged baby mixed leaves, spinach leaves, lots of coriander, danish or greek fetta (this changes the salad drastically), marinated mixed olives, cherry tomatoes, shredded cheddar and some avocado. Douse it with Sweet balsamic and garlic dressing. Yum!
Shit, dude. This is going to be my next salad.

Do avocados grow in Austrailia?

Yeah, although they're not the greatest. We just recently had a huge tv campaign telling us to eat avocados "'ave an avo!" Lame I know.

No surprise Fdgpckr here made a thread about salads. No telling how many he's tossed in his day.

No surprise Fdgpckr here made a thread about salads. No telling how many he's tossed in his day.
I'm touched that you love me enough to post in every thread I do.

I like lot's of salads. Not sure which my favorite is, but Chicken Cesar Salad is damned good.
My favorite dressing would have to be honey mustard. But it has to be the right one. The one that Chili's serves is real good.

I don't get chicken cesar salad. It's a chicken sandwich taken apart, diced up and eaten out of a bowl. Why not eat the sandwich and skip the fork?

i take my salad up the ass with some ranch.

but really i love ranch on it with bacon bits small bit of shredded cheese, some olives, garbonzo beans, few tomatoes here and there, maybe some chicken, i forget what else i throw on it

On a side note, I fucking hate Ranch dressing more than, well, damned near anything? My first job was as a high school janitor, and on my first day, my first task was to go clean up a wall that some little prick had smothered in Ranch dressing. I'm still on the look-out for that little bastard, and if I ever catch him I'm gonna choke the life outta that little jerk.

Finally, someone who shares my PLIGHT! Day after day, night after night, shuttling Ranch dressing to those southern motherfucking cunts!

"Can I get you anything else?"

"Oh, can I have a side of Ranch Dressing?"

"Sure!"

*stair noise*

"Ranch dressing for you ma'am."

"Oh, can I have some too!?"

"... Of course."

*stair noise*

"Here's that Ranch for you."

"Oh, can I have some TOO?!"

"Oh, me THREE!"

"I ran out, can I have some more?"

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I don't eat salad dressing. I find it overpowers the natural flavors of the ingredients in the salad, however those salad dressing spritzers are all right.

My favourite salad to make at home is just regular bagged lettuce/spinach/spring mix with diced tomatoes, cheddar cheese and cucumbers, and occasionally some chopped eggs are a nice addition. The best salad I've ever had was a caramelized pear and almond salad and it was absolutley amazing.

Brie and caramelized apple make for an amazing salad, when mixed with some simple fresh greenery.

I don't eat salad dressing. I find it overpowers the natural flavors of the ingredients in the salad, however those salad dressing spritzers are all right.


The restaurant I used to work at used to just drown the salads with dressing. You seriously got more dressing than vegetable.

The restaurant I used to work at used to just drown the salads with dressing. You seriously got more dressing than vegetable.

We just put dressings on the side in 4oz little cups.

You know your restaurant owner is female when you have over 5 different salads on the menu. :(

We just put dressings on the side in 4oz little cups.

You know your restaurant owner is female when you have over 5 different salads on the menu. :(

One of the more retarded things I've read in this thread.

Salads have a place on any restaurant menu as well. Not everyone wants just meat and potatoes. Some of us like diversity.

Hey, I love salads. There's a place where I live that has a very large all you can eat buffet and it's got tonnes of stuff, but theres two areas that battle it out in my mind for the winner. The carvery 4 kinds of roast (mainly because it has a bottomless tub of pork crackle, and the pumpkin is nice and pan roasted with caramelised edges), and the massive salad bar. Every kinda salad from Israeli salad to Potato Salad to Seafood Salad to Caeser Salad to Melon Salad.

What's so bad about beetroot? :confused:
A burger's just not a burger without it.

Do avocados grow in Australia?

They're not a heavy industry or anything like that, but they are available at pretty much all supermarkets throughout the country thanks to their willingness to grow in southern Queensland. Towns like Woombye pretty much live off Avacados (and Pineapples, Macadamia nuts and other stuff IIRC).

Avacados are supreme, especially spread over hot toasted slices of traditional mild (and non-caraway) German rye, graced with cracked black pepper, and a fresh squirt of lemon.

Salads have a place on any restaurant menu as well. Not everyone wants just meat and potatoes. Some of us like diversity.

I'm not bashing salad, or salad eaters, I'm simply speaking from a kitchen management point of view. Salads are healthy and tasty if made right, I love eating a salad every once and awhile, even as someone who doesn't often make a point of eating my vegetables. However, when the number and complexity of salads on the menu reaches a point where the efficiency of the kitchen is jeopardized, that's when salad gets me annoyed.

It not the fault of the salad lover at all, it's the fault of my stubborn, bitchy boss. There are several very LARGE, complex salads on our menu, and she won;t part with a single one of them. Two of them, the Black and Blue and the Chicken and Goat Cheese, require ingredients we use no where else in the kitchen, and must be kept somewhere other than the heated window, as they are served cold and often come out far earlier than other food. (They're meal sized salads) Not only that, but they also require we cook meat to put in them, hard when the station in charge of salads is on the opposite end of saute and grill. :(

We have numerous other problems with our kitchen, it's by far the worst organized I've worked in, and the owner is stubborn and refuses to change anything. That doesn't mean all female owners are stubborn and inefficient, I'm just saying I tend to see a correlation between the gender of a restaurant owner and the number of salads on the menu, which also in my narrow experience, has tended to slow down the kitchen. (When there are too many, that is.)

Though, I also may note, I've also been with a disproportionate amount of full-of-themselves owners who refuse to let the head chef have much say in the menu at all... :(

What's so bad about beetroot?:confused:
A burger's just not a burger without it.

From this statement I instantly knew you were an Aussie. :D

No milkbar burger is complete with out egg and beetroot. *drools*

Plain spring mix with:
Apples
tomatoes
avocado
red onion
bell pepper
pomegranate seeds
feta, blue, or goat cheese
squeeze some of the pomegranate juice on top
lemon juice
olive oil and balsamic

I can also get down with romaine, avocado, red onion, apple cider vinegar and olive oil on top of hot rice pilaf.

beetroot. *drools*

Beets often get a bad name because of pickling.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1006/876759098_c8a851c63b.jpg?v=0

Up until a couple of years ago, that was the only type of beet I encountered.

Beets often get a bad name because of pickling.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1006/876759098_c8a851c63b.jpg?v=0

Up until a couple of years ago, that was the only type of beet I encountered.

That stuff is damn good though.

Mixed greens with my homemade house dressing (olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, salt + pepper and a touch of lemon juice).

Though, I also may note, I've also been with a disproportionate amount of full-of-themselves owners who refuse to let the head chef have much say in the menu at all... :(

3-5 salads is all you really need on a menu so long as they are diverse.

Spinach and arugula, gorgonzola, toasted walnuts, pears, avocados, dried cranberries, and balsamic vinaigrette.

Ooooh boy. I want some now.

Well, I usually fix myself a salad consisting of:

Romaine lettuce
Chopped carrots
A whole diced apple
Diced beets
Chicken cold cuts

I'm not a fan of dressings; In fact, I hate them. I simply add balsamic vinegar and a pressed lime to my salads.

I just got done having my favorite salad. It consists of:

Romaine Lettuce
Diced Onions (any kind really, but normally I go with your standard white)
Diced Pickled Beets
Cottage Cheese
Bleu Cheese Dressing (Normally I go with Ranch but I liked the Bleu Cheese more so I'll stick with that for a while).

Sometimes I have Croutons too, but tonight I went without them and it's just as good so I may cut them out entirely.

Also, I'm surprised I'm the only person who puts Cottage Cheese on their salad :confused:.