What are your favourite salad ingredients? I have to make a salad for a dinner tomorrow and

[applegrove]

I'm thinking pears and sharp cheddar cheese. With freshly picked tomatoes. Does that sound good?

[NYC_SKP]

1. That sounds great!

Not all in the same salad, but things I like include shaved romano cheese, feta, spinach (yum), pine nuts or slivered almonds, green olives!

[HeiressofBickworth]

2. I'm often asked to bring this salad to a dinner party

Chopped Romaine lettuce
dried cranberries
almond slivers (or pieces)
blue cheese crumbles
Poppy seed salad dressing

Everyone likes it, there's never any left over.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. That sounds yummy, my dear applegrove!

I made a marinated salad--my 3 bean salad--recently, and it was a hit. I'd lost the recipe and then found it.

It has to marinate for at least 8 hours, but oh boy, it's worth it. And it keeps for days too.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. i wouldn't put tomatoes and pear together

i do a pear, candied walnut, goat cheese with spinach salad thats pretty good

i also do a mango, chorizo, and a spinach chiffonade

[pinboy3niner]

5. Sounds great!

Throw in bacon dressing, and it would be spectacular!

[datasuspect]

6. anchovies

[Kaleva]

7. Lettuce is tops for me.

[JI7]

8. spinach, avacado,

[woodsprite]

9. I love avocado, beets, goat cheese, and walnuts

Serve over lettuce. For dressing, I used Newmans balsamic
vinaigrette mixed with a tblsp (or less) of honey.

[djames59434]

10. avocado and lettuce.

[ohiosmith]

11. Sounds yummy! I do a chopped spinach with eggs, bacon, turkey, blue berries, sharp cheddar with

lemon zest, with a vinegarette dressing.

[onehandle]

12. Blueberries. Gorgonzola. Baby Spinach. Sliced Beets. Sweet Onion. Avocado. Walnuts.

Tiny Heirloom Orange Tomatoes.

[Major Nikon]

13. Crumbled roquefort has to be my all time favorite ingredient

I like using fresh and/or dried fruit. This time of year is especially great for fresh fruit like strawberries, raspberries, pineapple, and blueberries, so I use those a lot in the summer and I tend to use more dried fruit and mushrooms in the winter. I also like using either pine nuts, sesame seeds, or toasted walnuts. When I use fresh fruit I like to puree some of it and incorporate that into a homemade vinaigrette.

[LWolf]

14. A variety of greens;

anything but iceberg, and spinach is a must. Red onion. Fruit; pears will work. Nuts: walnut, cashew...

Cherry tomatoes or some sort of tomato small enough to not need cutting. Fresh mushrooms. Some black olives. Fresh asparagus tips. Sharp cheddar is fine.

Sounds great.

[El Supremo]

15. Fresh spinich

take off the stems

[Generic Brad]

16. Seaweed salad from Costco, cucumbers, crushed red pepper and dash of rice vinegar

It is soooo delicious.

[hibbing]

20. tell me more please

Hi,
This sounds interesting, we don't have Costco but I will be going to a city that does shortly. Is it a giganto container of the stuff or smaller?

Peace

[Generic Brad]

24. It's a 28 oz container

It costs around 11 dollars. We get nine servings out of it when we mix it with cucumbers.

It is delicious!

[struggle4progress]

17. I pretty much just toss in whatever I've got in

[ashling]

18. Gummy salad - it's not what you think

People call their grandparents by all sort of nicknames:

Mammaw, Gappy, etc. We always called my mother's mother Gummy. This is the way she made salad:

Sliced lettuce
sliced or diced tomatoes
Mayonnaise (Hellman's is best)
and sugar

Toss well.

That is Gummy salad. I love it, as does my wife. We also put it on hamburgers. It would work well on BBQ. I'm considering putting pinapple juice in it and serving it on a home grilled hamburger with a slice of terriyaki marinated grilled pinapple.

Gummy Salad - good stuff.

[tjwmason]

19. Rocket

Good peppery taste - nothing worse than a wussy salad.

[4th law of robotics]

21. Sounds good

I'd put that over spinach and maybe throw in some walnuts.

[Wait Wut]

22. Feta Cheese.

Everything is bettah with Feta.

[femmocrat]

23. Spring mix, chopped pears, pecans, and crumbled feta.

With a little olive oil.

[applegrove]

25. Someone suggested grated brussel sprouts in salad. I'll try that next week. The pear/cheddar

salad was wonderful with a great balsamic dressing.