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What's in your Chef's Salad?
I've just finished making one of my versions of a Chef's Salad.
This time I used, gem lettuce, cucumber, tomato, spring onions, celery, ham, chopped boiled eggs and dice cheese. I was going to add some green pepper, but couldn't be bothered to chop any more. I'm always looking for new and inventive salads for work, so as title says: What's in your Chef's Salad? |
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No beetroot?
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It is much the same as yours but I put fennel in mine.
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my best salad contains: Iceburg lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, yellow peppers, grated carrots, sweetcorn, spring onion, green grapes, cheese of any description, left over roast chicken, all tossed together with some low fat mayo and cranberry sauce!! scrummy!
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Since i have been going to the harvester i always put some fruit in mine like pineapple or rasins it works quite well
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What actually is a 'chef's salad'? It is just a big salad? I'd never heard the term, apart from in the Sims - it is an American term?
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No beetroot?
![]() I never really liked beetroot. It seemed that it was always served soaked in vinegar from a jar and IMO tasted horrible. It has only been this year that I picked some of the roots up at a farmers market to experiment and cooked my own. Warm, delicious and moreish. Now I love beetroot! I'm a bit hesitant to put it in a chef salad due to the dying of all the other ingredients. However, I love a salad made with beetroot and pigeon breasts. I had it in a restaurant once and since have started making it myself. Lovely! |
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It is much the same as yours but I put fennel in mine.
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my best salad contains: Iceburg lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, yellow peppers, grated carrots, sweetcorn, spring onion, green grapes, cheese of any description, left over roast chicken, all tossed together with some low fat mayo and cranberry sauce!! scrummy!
Grapes and cranberry sauce? Does that really work with the other ingredients? Quote:
Since i have been going to the harvester i always put some fruit in mine like pineapple or rasins it works quite well
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What actually is a 'chef's salad'? It is just a big salad? I'd never heard the term, apart from in the Sims - it is an American term?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_salad |
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I remember years ago when I was growing up my mom making them for a light dinner or lunch on the weekends. It is like a meal in itself. However in the past few years I have seen chef salad on quite a few menus here. They basically consist of the same sort of ingredients, however they are versatile to your own tastes when making them yourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_salad I do make big salads, but I don't think I would ever put meat in them. Eggs sometimes, but not often. I would always have leaves (I like spinach and rocket and watercress, but any really) and then usually add chopped spring onion, and sometimes all or any of: cherry/baby plum tomatoes apple dried cranberries blue cheese walnuts/pecans/pine nuts blueberries |
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Oh I see, thanks. I was thinking maybe it was just another name for a salad, but I see it is something specific. That makes sense.
I do make big salads, but I don't think I would ever put meat in them. Eggs sometimes, but not often. I would always have leaves (I like spinach and rocket and watercress, but any really) and then usually add chopped spring onion, and sometimes all or any of: cherry/baby plum tomatoes apple dried cranberries blue cheese walnuts/pecans/pine nuts blueberries Blueberries? What type of salad do you make with that? It doesn't seem that would blend well. I must have a fruit phobia when it comes to green salads.
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I love all kind of salad greens and I also like to mix them together. The problem is, my husband turns his nose up at anything green (unless it peas!). I have to eat salad endlessly or else it goes off, so I have to stick with only a couple at a time or pay a fortune fromt the mixed bags.
Blueberries? What type of salad do you make with that? It doesn't seem that would blend well. I must have a fruit phobia when it comes to green salads. ![]() |
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Wow! That is a big salad. Do you ever find that you start out with a bit of lettuce to make a small salad and it turns into something that you are going to be eating for the next few days? I have, and I didn't think I had used that many ingredients either.
Grapes and cranberry sauce? Does that really work with the other ingredients? What is the harvester? You have fruit as well. What else is in it that goes with it? |
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Not sure if it qualifies as a "Chef's Salad" but my favourite salad to take to work is tuna & mixed bean.
Add a tin of tuna to a mixing bowl and flake it up, add a tin of mixed bean salad, a chopped chilli, chopped red onion, chopped cucumber and a grated carrot. Mix it all together and dress with a lime dressing (5 tablespoons lime juice, 15 tablespoons olive oil, pinch salt, freshly ground black pepper, 1/2 teaspoon sugar and 3 tablespoons salad cream). I find this one keeps much better than a salad with greens in as theres nothing to go soggy (so it can be made up in advance) and it improves the longer you leave it as all the flavours combine better. |
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Oh, I love sticking a few blueberries on top of a salad. It's nice.
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The Harvested is a chaim of resturants. They give you as much free salad from a salad bar as you want if you order a main meal. So most normal salad is there the fruit is just something differant that works quite well with it
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Not sure if it qualifies as a "Chef's Salad" but my favourite salad to take to work is tuna & mixed bean.
Add a tin of tuna to a mixing bowl and flake it up, add a tin of mixed bean salad, a chopped chilli, chopped red onion, chopped cucumber and a grated carrot. Mix it all together and dress with a lime dressing (5 tablespoons lime juice, 15 tablespoons olive oil, pinch salt, freshly ground black pepper, 1/2 teaspoon sugar and 3 tablespoons salad cream). I find this one keeps much better than a salad with greens in as theres nothing to go soggy (so it can be made up in advance) and it improves the longer you leave it as all the flavours combine better.
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Whether or not it qualifies doesn't matter. It sounds lovely. If you don't mind I think I will add that to my rota of packed lunches!
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