Baby new spuds cooked to al dente with lots of mint...dressed while still warm with vinaigrette and loads of fresh herbs, and left to cool so vinaigrette/herbs infuse potatoes with flavours. Serve at room temperature. Vinaigrette can be as garlicky as you like, depending on personal taste!

Pasta salad is a bit passe, I know, but I love it! Roast sweet peppers (red, yellow and/or orange: not green, as they tend to be bitter) and chop up *, dice cucumber (with or without skin: some people loathe cuke skin), finely chop spring onions (inc. green bits), Mix together with enough mayo/creme fraiche to coat but not creating a swimming pool. Season to taste - I quite often add a smidgeon of hot pepper sauce. Can be made ahead and put in the fridge but more mayo/creme fraiche will be needed before serving as sauce is absorbed. (A variation is to use all the above but add small cubed pieces of medium cheddar and either crispy lardons or cubed cooked gammon...or a can of tuna, plus some tinned sweet corn) * Purists would say one needs to remove skin once peppers are roasted.

And then there's cous cous with roasted Mediterranean veggies and vinaigrette, or soaked dried fruit, plus nuts and finely chopped herbs chucked in.

For me it is too, mostly.

I would have also accepted 'cubed'

Hahaha! I have tomato sauce on my salad!

Bed layer of lettuce, with red and green peppers, red onion, spring onions, pickled onions, grated carrot, cheese, cucumber cut so I don't have the squishy bit, boiled eggs and some salad potatoes, all drizzled with tomato sauce.

Try this one. Simple and tasty.

Sounds tasty, I might try this. I'll probably leave off the green bits though.

Nom, nom, nom!

I've seen your photo a few times here, but now I have to tell you what I really think.
It looks anemic, bland and stodgy. Where are the veg ? At least grassmarket's breakfast salad has parsley in it

My mom used to make what she called a taco salad, with romaine, green leaf and red leaf lettuce, black olives, avocado, scallions, tomatoes, sliced green bell peppers, black beans, garbanzo beans (chick peas ), grated cheddar, seasoned shredded beef and crushed tortilla chips. Yum.

Our wee salad consists of:

Ham rolled
A hardboiled egg
Raw mushroom (with stalks and skin removed)
Slice of cheese
Cherry toms
Coleslaw
Potato salad
Red onion
A slice of wheaten bannock or half a wheaten farl
Salad cream

......and very nice it is too!

I found a caterpillar in one I had in a restaurant

How many calories did it add?

I have recently come to the conclusion that whatever salad I am having it is improved immeasurably by adding fresh chopped coriander; both stems and leaves.

I also like a few spoonfuls of cold cooked rice, adds a new texture

That's yer protein.

I usually go for Asda's fine cut salad or herb salad. Add a hard boiled egg, cucumber and spring onion. Have given up radishes cos they taste of nothing nowadays. And it's got to have salad cream.

MMMmmmm I'm going to try that. Greek salad is my absolute fav.

So true. I grew some last year and they were much better but I don't have much room so it was a very small crop.

I love a Greek salad and make it exactly as you say only I use the pitted green olives that come in the little pouch with some garlic and herbs on. In fact, for dinner tonight I'm having that in a pitta pocket with some little meatballs made with lamb mince, spiced with cumin, garlic powder, onion powder and S&P. Love that dinner, I'm salivating at the thought....mmm!

I absolutely love salad and eat it once a day. It's so versatile.

Lately I've been having:

Romaine lettuce leaves
1 garlic clove
Sprinkle of cumin seeds
Tuna, chickpeas or quinoa
spring onion
beetroot
Red wine vinegar, olive oil or lemon juice
Grated carrot
Cucumber
Tomatoes
Celery
Sprinkle of seeds or pine nuts
Basil, coriander or parsley to garnish

I usually have a sweet potato on the side, too. Very filling, and very good for you.

That salad is an interesting one. What I thought initially was pasta or grated cheese is (I think?) apple which makes it a bit more texturally alive and less stodgy.

But my main response, and I'm no food stylist, is that it's probably not one to serve in a yellow bowl.

Re-reading my post I think I was bloody rude and I apologize
I think there is sweetcorn in it AFAICS.
The question is what defines a salad ?
Off to google !

The yellow bowl makes it look very monochrome, indeed.

HI Chatte! I was indeed hypnotised by this photo. Actually, looking at the ingredients (which do indeed after all include pasta if you read the comments), it's probably tasty and a great way of getting various nutrients and so forth, though I might forego the miracle whip sorbet thing, but it just looked so yellow to me.

It's like my eyes need green and/or red in a salad, which is I admit (genuinely! - suddenly recalling eating white asparagus in dressing in France) pretty limited of me.

The irony is that my other post was telling grassmarket to take the parsley off his/her full english breakfast thingy!

I am weird.

Hi serendipitea
I googled definition of salad and conclusion is that anything (foodwise) can be called a salad if it has a dressing of some sort. I have no idea what 'miracle whip' might be, but it has been used as a dressing, so it can be called a salad.

The breakfast salad however is not a salad, grassmarket, even if you add a bit of green fluff

I have an aversion to hard boiled eggs in salad, but that is only because with every single salad (here in Belgium) you will get a withered leaf of lettuce, 3 slices of dried out cucumber, 2 slices of icecold tomato a dollop of mayonnaise and of course half of a hardboiled egg, where the yolk has already turned green.

White asparagus is also a Belgian 'speciality' and they are grown a lot here in my neighbourhood. The farm a bit further down the road has now left them to sprout their green foliage (they do that after the picking season), so now I see these lovely green sprears poking out of the soil and I am so tempted ..... I prefer green asparagus.

I also love bright colours in a salad and my other food. I have to admit that I sometimes fail miserably in adding them.

Oh no, I didn't mean to offend, LaChatteGitane, just lazy typing. I can now see that it looks presumptious when I meant to be friendly!


Agree about the green versus white asparagus. Green looks so much better with egg yolk.

I guess I eat with my eyes. Making myself hungry now...

Wahahaha ! I know you were being friendly !
People can call me LaChatte or whatever anytime.

I just wrote serendipitea, because you said you were weird. and I didn't mean anything to offend either.

Glad we cleared that one up ! hehe