Is it possible?
Can it be done?

My salads are so flat and boring - it makes me the laughing stock of friends and family.
Actually I'm exaggerating but does anyone know how to make them the talk of the town?????

try this :

Mango and Avacado Salad (http://www.fox13.com/recipes/mango.htm)

I did a version of this the other week and it was yum!

Nomme

Try making your own dressings - you can get quite cool results. Serving with some cous-cous is good, stuff like walnuts and pulses works. Also adding some colour like peppers etc is good visually.

Originally posted by mjlacey21
How do you make an interesting salad?
First, grill and then dice your "interesting", then mix it with some lettuce, and other salad vegetables...

...voila, "interesting" salad.

;)

Get it host a factual TV show

insert the salad into a large donner kebab........nowt finer:D

Right... let me get this clear.

Step 1 - Mangoes and avocados
Step 2 - Add walnuts, peppers and cous cous
Step 3 - Grill and dice my interesting
Step 4 - Get it to host a factual TV show
Step 5 - Insert into a large donner

Sounds great to me!

Now, what for dessert?

Originally posted by mjlacey21
Now, what for dessert?

Bread and butter pudding of course!

Nomme

Originally posted by mjlacey21
Now, what for dessert?
A pint of Stella. :D

I live on salad:

finely chopped shallots in white wine vinegar for half an hour, then take the shallots and drop them all over a big bowl of salad leaves (lollo rosso, little gem etc for variety - I hate iceberg), add loads of grapes and crumble some goats cheese on top - volia

or greek salad:

rocket leaves in with the lettuce, diced tomoato, cucumber, feta cheese, a big dose of pepper and loads of olive oil,

or bean salad

a tin of cannelini beans mixed up with chopped basil, finely chopped red chilli, spring onion, juice of half a lemon, a load of olive oil serve on a bed of lettuce, yum.

salad nicoise

chopped hard boiled egg, tuna fish, tomoatoes, red onion, cold new potatoes on a bed of leetuce with loads of french dressing on top - 1tbsp of dijon mustard, 4 tbsp white wine vinegar 10 tbsp olive oil whisked togethr.

I like any of the above with half a tin of chick peas thrown in for good measure.

Well in general you make an interesting anything (not in a bad way! u sarcastic chuffs) when u put ur soul and passion into making it.

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Sounds great to me!

Now, what for dessert? [/B]

How about bread pudding? Absolutely corking with some custard on top!

Originally posted by theflyingfish
salad nicoise

chopped hard boiled egg, tuna fish, tomoatoes, red onion, cold new potatoes on a bed of leetuce with loads of french dressing on top - 1tbsp of dijon mustard, 4 tbsp white wine vinegar 10 tbsp olive oil whisked togethr.


thats the best one, especially if you can get tuna steak then you can sear the outside and leave the middle red, totally different taste to the tinned stuff.

We make cous cous salad a lot. Prepare the cous cous and add a mixture of cherry toms, cucumber, onion, sweetcorn, peppers, carrot, celery, etc etc.

We also have a rice salad (although technically I guess it's not really a salad but we call it one!) Plain boiled rice (cold) mixed with tuna and green pesto. Yummy!

Batchelors savory rice when it goes cold passes as a fairly good rice salad, if your lazy, like me.

Originally posted by nick2
thats the best one, especially if you can get tuna steak then you can sear the outside and leave the middle red, totally different taste to the tinned stuff.


oooh definitely. I bought a tin of tuna in france and I opened it and a bit of cold seared tuna steak popped out - the quality of stuff we sell on supermarket shelves in this country is scandalous.

How do you make a salad interesting?


Serve with chips:clap: and lashings of mayo:banana:

Originally posted by mikey
How do you make a salad interesting?


Serve with chips:clap: and lashings of mayo:banana:

how uncouth

Originally posted by theflyingfish
how uncouth


***Hangs head in shame***

but you know it makes sense.

Originally posted by mikey
How do you make a salad interesting?


Serve with chips:clap: and lashings of mayo:banana:

are you the big dollop of the TV ?

(thats a strange advert BTW)

Originally posted by nick2
are you the big dollop of the TV ?

No in fact I have just a salad for my lunch, here is what was in it.


Tomatoes
Cucumber
Celery
Walnuts
Raisins
Brown Rice
Red Beans
Spring Onions
Olives
Boiled Egg

Topped with those crispy onion bits

Courtesy of Morrisons Salad Bar = £1.59

Now that interesting:banana: