Throw Together A Great Salad

Uncategorized — By Shopping Blogs on March 16, 2010 8:41 am

Some of the best salad recipes are those that are not written down on an index card or found on the Internet but rather just made up by a handful of ingredients from your cupboard. As you rummage around your pantry finding this or that, you may find yourself with a craving for something a little crunchy, salty, sweet, etc.

The beauty of throwing together a salad on a whim is that you can tweak it just the way you like so that it’s exactly what you wanted.

If you aren’t sure what kind of salad you want or what things work together then you can start with your favorite recipe and improvise from there.

One of the best salad recipes to start with is a 7 Layered Salad. This salad is unmistakably to most beautiful salad so if you are making it for a pot luck at work or a family reunion, you should dress your salad to impress by using a glass bowl. The glass bowl will provide a perfect container for your masterfully layered salad to make its appearance at your next event.

The 7 Layered Salad typically includes lettuce on the bottom followed by a range of layers of the following ingredients: grape tomatoes, celery, carrots, peas, hard boiled eggs, bacon or bacon bits. When layered one, on top the other, the array of colors does make a quite stunning salad.

Of course, this was just one example of the seven ingredients thrown into this classic salad. Some people take this, one of the best salad recipes , and tweak it a little by adding fresh cut broccoli florets, cauliflower, red onion, bell peppers or other fresh veggies. Another common way to alter the salad is to make it strictly vegetarian and leave out the bacon.

Aside from the ingredients in the salad, the dressing is one of the biggest additions to a salad. The dressing is where you can make or break the best salad recipes you make. Perhaps you already have a favorite salad dressing but being a little adventurous with a salad dressing can be a fun adventure for your taste buds.

The 7 Layered Salad has a mayonnaise based dressing that combines mayo, lemon juice, parmesan cheese and optionally salt and pepper. While this salad may already have a perfect dressing, other salads have room for a little improvisation when it comes to a dressing.

Some of the best salad recipes have luxurious salad dressings like raspberry vinaigrette or honey mustard. If you are throwing together a salad with a sweet side containing ingredients like walnuts and dried cranberries, a tasty dressing like a raspberry vinaigrette is the perfect topping to a nutritious salad.

Other salads with ingredients like cucumbers and carrots may be complimented by a yummy peppercorn ranch dressing. Other common and popular dressings include: blue cheese, French, thousand island, balsamic vinaigrette and more.

The famous Caesar salad typically has a Caesar dressing with a slightly tangy twist. The combination of parmesan cheese, garlic and vinegar it part of what makes this dressing a hit.

No matter which way you go with your next salad, give it a little flare of your own. Throw in your favorite ingredients and enjoy the freshness that a deliciously crisp salad has to offer.

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