Favorite green type salads?
"Jacquie" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>>I ask this as I am forcing down a bowl of "American" salad. Now when I
>>was a kid this was pretty much all we ever got. Except for the years when
>>I had a garden and grew leaf lettuce. For those of you who don't know
>>what this is, it is iceberg lettuce, shredded carrots and a small amount
>>of shredded purple cabbage. Once in a while there will be a few red
>>radish slices in it as well.
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>> I remember the first time I had butter lettuce at the Hunt Club. That
>> was a restaurant I couldn't normally afford to dine at. But my friend
>> was graduating from college and rather than throw a party, his parents
>> too me and another friend out to dinner with them to this place. I was
>> very uncomfortable during the meal, partly because I had to dress up (and
>> I hate to do that) and partly because people kept hovering around us. I
>> also remember having a pepper crusted steak which I really didn't like,
>> being a vegetarian and all but at that point in time there were no
>> vegetarian dishes on the menu. I think my friend had duck. They did
>> have a guy who came around with a big pepper mill. I did like that.
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>> I like pretty much all of the salad greens except for when they are
>> really bitter. Sometimes I will get a blend that has too much bitter
>> stuff in it. I don't normally buy bagged salad for fear of food poisoning
>> but this bag came from Costco and it was only $2.17. We've been eating
>> salad all week from it. Tonight I put some green onions and some green
>> pepper on it as well as some black olives. I intended to put walnuts but
>> I forgot. The green pepper was an accident. The produce drawer was
>> stuffed full but I insisted to Angela that I could fit the remaining
>> three green onions in there. Well, I did but I smashed the green pepper.
>> Which is why I ate it tonight.
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>> I also like tomatoes and celery on my salad. And I often put kidney,
>> pinto or garbanzo beans on there. Cooked white beans are good too
>> although I don't really like black beans on a salad too much. Unless it
>> is really a Mexican type salad with like...corn and salsa. Then it's
>> okay. I also like that baby corn but I only ever want two ears. So I
>> never buy the stuff because nobody else will eat it and it always goes
>> bad before I can finish it.
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>> So what are your favorite salad greens? Costco sells some baby lettuces
>> that I love. But you have to buy so many in a package that we can never
>> finish them. Actually Angela won't eat them. But I can get her to eat
>> Romaine.
>>
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> I like Romaine, iceberg, Boston, Baby Spinach Greens, I like tomatoes red
> onions, celery, shredded carrots, English seedless cucumbers. If we are
> having Italian I just like a bit of Romaine and Iceberg mixes with red
> onions tomatoes, olives and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese, add a bit of
> home made Italian Dressing. Sometimes we buy the dressing at Olive Garden.
> I like Chef's salads for lunch, Iceberg lettuce , baby spinach leaves,
> tomatoes onion, some rotisserie chicken cut up, a bit of ham chopped,
> maybe a crumbled hard boiled egg or cheese crumbles. I like buttermilk
> ranch with that or thousand island (I can get the one carb dressing at my
> grocery store.)
> I do make a bbq chicken salad and add black beans to it, my husband also
> gets corn. The salad I make is like the Whiskey BBQ Chicken Salad made at
> Red Robin...found a recipe.
Thanks!
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