What would impress you in a salad?

ATMmom324 · December 2012

For Christmas eve we are going to a friends house. They are serving Spaghetti and Meatballs. She is an excellent cook and I want to impress. She asked me to bring a salad. What would you put in it? She said not to worry about dressing because they have a ton of different types. Is lettuce, croutons, tomatoes, cheese and onion too plain? I hate cucumbers and olives so I refuse to include them.

BoatsNHoes · December 2012

Hard boiled eggs, real bacon.

PeonyPumps · December 2012

Hyfa makes a really good salad with tomatos and mozzarella cheese. Are you FB friends with her?

ATMmom324 · December 2012

PeonyPumps:
Hyfa makes a really good salad with tomatos and mozzarella cheese. Are you FB friends with her?

Yep I will try hitting her up for it. Thanks.

missyishere · December 2012

Does it have to be a lettuce salad?

ATMmom324 · December 2012

missyleaferg:
Does it have to be a lettuce salad?

I believe so. It has to go with spaghetti and meatballs. And they also mentioned dressing.

missyishere · December 2012

This is a recipe used at my wedding that was a huge hit (it has been passed on for two other weddings):

Mixed romaine leaves, can of mandarin oranges, shaved almonds

the vinaegrette is 1/2 cup orange juice 1/4 cup white balsamic vinaigrette, 1/4 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup olive oil, salt and pepper

ETA: I guess this wouldn't be all that great with spaghetti, but you could drop the oranges and orange juice and use olive oil and tomatoes instead.

ATMmom324 · December 2012

LexiLupin:
Colby cheese wedges.
Yellow or orange bell pepper for some sweetness and pretty colors?

These ideas are making me want salad right now.

Luckie519 · December 2012

Hmmm.. what about a meat? Like ham or pepperoni? I really love sunflower seeds also!

ATMmom324 · December 2012

LexiLupin:
ATMmom324:
LexiLupin:
Colby cheese wedges.
Yellow or orange bell pepper for some sweetness and pretty colors?

These ideas are making me want salad right now.
I love a good salad. I'm also a slave to food suggestion of almost any sort at the moment.
Dangit I want a salad.

Screw all the cookie and cake food talk. My scale would appreciate it if we did posts like this more often.

gimmietimmies · December 2012

C_mo:
goat cheese, cranberries, walnuts, spinach. I can't remember the dressing, but omg yum.

::drools like Homer::

I saw the posted and had to lol, I just finished eating one! Mixed spring greens and baby spinach, frenchs fried onions, garlic croutons, sugar snap peas and julienned carrots. I sometimes throw in bean sprouts a an sunflowers seeds, cheese of some kind, and if I'm ambitious, fruit, either peaches, mangos, pineapple, peeled mandarins or raspberries.

I love dessert, but this is how I normally eat.

Snapdragon750 · December 2012

Not using iceberg lettuce is enough to impress me! Really, without dressing there's not a lot you can do "fancy-like" besides adding something cooked (like chicken breast) or sliced (peppers, mushrooms). My standard undressed salad is cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers.

Alternatively, nuts and fresh fruit (sliced strawberries and mangoes are YUM), but that's more of a summer thing really.

ap142193 · December 2012

Bacon and sunflower seeds

Jessys_Girl · December 2012

I would do some "fancy" lettuces, like maybe baby spinach and some romaine, or whatever, not just iceberg. And then I'd do dried cranberries, sugar snap peas, some pecans (chopped up a bit), maybe real bacon bits, croutons, and I'd pair it with a balsamic vinagrette dressing. YUM. Now I want a salad!