We tend to eat a lot of salads around here, especially when the weather gets warm, which it tends to do in Central Texas. We eat them both as a side dish and as a meal. For it to be a meal, it must have meat on it. With no meat, it's just a side dish or an appetizer. Sometimes when the wife goes shopping she gets these whimsical urges and buys "stuff" that she brings home and asks me to make something with. As often as not, when I see the "stuff" I feel like I'm in the Chopped Kitchen opening one of those dreaded mystery baskets. She recently came home with some of that "stuff" for me to create something with. After a couple days thinking about it I decided to pull the trigger and make a salad since it's getting warm here. I figured worst case, we'd toss it (no pun intended) and I'd get homemade burgers out of the freezer to grill. Turned out, the last thing I needed to worry about was it being a disaster. Here is what I came up with:
The "stuff" she came home with
A bag of homemade bacon crumbles I chop up from the ends of the slabs that won't slice cleanly
Into the pan to cook
Laid down a bed of fresh baby spinach
Some cucumbers
Another layer of spinach
The bacon crumbles all fried up
A hefty dose of Feta cheese
Add the cranberries and sliced pecans
Crunch up some of the Parmesan crisps
A drizzle of the Raspberry dressing and we are ready to eat
This salad was SOOOO good!! It hit on every flavor and textural component you could ask for. It had the sweet, sour/bitter, salty, crunchy, soft....you name it, and this salad had it. After the first bite we both decided this was far and again the best salad we have ever had. It's another of the items I've done that "if I owned a restaurant" it would be a staple in the "Chef's Specialty" category
Salads galore in Lago,
Robert
(The mods may decide to move this but I wasn't sure where to post it)
The "stuff" she came home with
A bag of homemade bacon crumbles I chop up from the ends of the slabs that won't slice cleanly
Into the pan to cook
Laid down a bed of fresh baby spinach
Some cucumbers
Another layer of spinach
The bacon crumbles all fried up
A hefty dose of Feta cheese
Add the cranberries and sliced pecans
Crunch up some of the Parmesan crisps
A drizzle of the Raspberry dressing and we are ready to eat
This salad was SOOOO good!! It hit on every flavor and textural component you could ask for. It had the sweet, sour/bitter, salty, crunchy, soft....you name it, and this salad had it. After the first bite we both decided this was far and again the best salad we have ever had. It's another of the items I've done that "if I owned a restaurant" it would be a staple in the "Chef's Specialty" category
Salads galore in Lago,
Robert
(The mods may decide to move this but I wasn't sure where to post it)
