Roughage

[Dave Shepard]

Anyone here really into salads, as in a salad as a meal? I have been adding a salad to my supper lately. Often a soup or a sandwich and a salad. Sometimes the more I pile onto the salad, the more I think it could be a meal unto itself. Tonight I had a mixed greens salad with green olives, red onion, feta cheese, mozzarella cheese, and russian dressing. And a couple of pepperoncini on the side. I'd like to hear some other ideas from the other roughage eaters.


Dave

[sprucebunny]

One of my favorite salads is just thinly sliced celery with lemon juice, olive oil and parmesan cheese ( preferably freshly grated or thinly sliced )

Yum

[woodbowl]

Collard greens, it will cure what ailes ya.

[Coon]

One of my favorites is Taco Salad.  Complete meal.  In the salad there is tacos, extra lean ground burger fried, onions, lettuce, tomato, radish, catalina salad dressing, and some finely grated cheddar cheese all mixed together.  Sometimes I add homemade salsa as well.

[Jeff]

I eat just salad for supper about twice a week.  Packaged salad Lettuce mix, diced boiled chicken, salad mushrooms, 1 crumbled boiled egg, a little shredded cheese with low cal thousand Island dressing. I make a big bowl full and eat till I'm full.

[Dave Shepard]

We do a lot of different bagged mixes here too. Makes for a quick salad. Although one bag we got last week had some of the strangest greens I've ever seen. Don't really know how to describe them, but they were some kind of spindly, non-leafy vegetable-like component of someones idea of salad mix. : :(

I love taco salad! Although the radishes are a new one on me. :D It's about the only chance I get to use hot sauce.


Dave

[Haytrader]

 :

Did I see yet another salad recall on the news last night?

:(

[Burlkraft]

They start recallin' salad again and I won't have anything to eat  :D  :D
Since my attack plants have become the staple of my diet. I like romaine lettuce with spinach mixed in with all the good extras carrots, mushrooms, garbanzo's, onions, peppers, soy nuts, and some really tasty fat free dressing.  :  :  :
Long gone are the days of cheese and meats in salads for me  :-\  :-\  :-\

[Patty]

I love a good salad. My favorite is a taco salad with EVERYTHING! Although I have been known to eat salads without the taco stuff. A giant bowl of lettuce with dabs of whatever everyone else is having for dinner (potatoes,meat, vegetable) stacked on top is a favorite. 

We do not eat many salads in the winter because the greens are so pathetic. I tried the bagged salads and they smell funny...like a chemical has been poured over them. We live far enough out in the boonies that the bagged salads in the store are usually expired or set to expire the next day, maybe that is why they smell.  :

Last summer we put 2 big raised bed garden up next to the house for greens. It was great. At dinner we just walked out the back door and picked whatever we needed for a salad. I see a greenhouse in my future when I win the next lottery.

[Dave Shepard]

I've had bagged mix that smells a little funny too. I think it may be the type of mix as well as the age. The stuff being pushed as fresh and organic smells the worst. When I was doing the low carb thing, I would make a big salad, and put a cheeseburger and crumbled blue cheese and blue cheese dressing on top.


Dave

PS, how do you spell the blue, in blue cheese? :D

[DWM II]

We do a grilled chicken breast salad here.
Romaine mix with baby greens
green olives
slice almonds
tomatoes
grated parmesean
croutons.

Just light salt and pepper on the chicken and grilled real quick on the habachi, real light vinegrette.   

[Corley5]

PS, how do you spell the blue, in blue cheese? :D

Bleu  ;) ;D

[Dave Shepard]

That's what I thought. An informal poll of the TV watchers in the other room yielded only grunts of vague recognition that a question had been asked. :


Dave

[LOGDOG]

A spinach salad with warm bacon dressing is good too.

LOGDOG

[Roxie]

I vote "no" on the bagged stuff.  I buy a head of iceberg and romaine, and then wash, dry and tear it.  It keeps a week refrigerated in Tupperware, and never develops that smell. 

My favorite salad is a BLT.  Lettuce, cucumber, green pepper, onion, bacon, tomato (in winter, the hydroponic cherry tomatoe's), and chunks of monterey cheese with ranch dressing. 

[LeeB]

Try a little manderin orange and pineapple in your salad sometime. Goes really well with honey mustard dressing.

[sawguy21]

We eat a lot of salads, my new girlfriend is diabetic and vegetables are something she can have lots of. Iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, cucs, sliced onion (for me, she won't eat them), radishes, grated cheddar cheese and a vinaigrette. We also like whole uncooked green peas and I add sliced hard boiled egg to mine. We are going to have a feeding frenzy when the garden comes up.

[DanG]

New girlfriend? ??? ;D

[Fla._Deadheader]

Just had 2 Pineapples delivered to the house, today.
400 colones or 80 cents  ;D ;D ;D ;) ;)

  Now, THAT'S Roughage, turned into a Pina Fresco. 

[Burlkraft]

2 Pineapples here right now would cost ya $12.00

I know this cuz I just bought 2 yesterday...They're in the dehydrator right now   

[Fla._Deadheader]

Steve, make you a Fresco.  8)

  Fill your blender about ½ full of water, maybe a little less.

  Peel that hide off'n that Pina, and cut it into chunks about 3-4" long.

Spin up that blender and add them chunks, OF HIDE, until the blender is full.

  Spin it till it's all ground up. Pour it through a screen type sifter.

   If ya got more hide, repeat the process.

  Once the stuff is sifted-strained, put some ice cubes in the blender and pulse them -break them up. Add a little sweetner, and pour in some Pina. Yer lookin for somethin like a "Slushy".

   If ya got it all done right, you'll smack yer lips after a healthy swig.

  Reina builds them all the time, for me. I's loven 'em.   8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

[Burlkraft]

I'll have ta save up anudder 12 bucks and try that......

Wudda ya do with the pineapple after ya grind up the hide  ???  ???  ???

I know the dog likes pineapple  :D  :D  :D

[Fla._Deadheader]

Chunk up the rest of the Pina, and eat it with a salad, by itself as a snack, or, have it for breakfast.

  We plant the tops and grow our own as an ornamental.  ;) ;D ;D ;D

[woodbowl]

Ornamental?  Will it make pineapples or just bush out?

[Fla._Deadheader]

Depends  on which phase the pina came from.

  The first Pina is BIG and eaten fresh. Second is cut fruit and rings in cans.

  Third is juice and canned.

  This does NOT take into account culls. I'm talking quality defect free, as it was 'splained to me.

  I was told  : : :  If you get the BIG ones, those tops should produce BIG quality Pina fruit.

  Some ground is better suited for growing Pinas than others.

  Florida used to be a Pina producing state. Now, it produces Retirees.  : ;D ;D :D

  We had about 8-10 in the back yard, in Florida, and harvested, maybe, 6 fruits. Hurricanes helped decimate the plants.