I had a chat not long ago, with the owner of Pantry Foods about salads, and he mentioned that he rarely makes a salad in a bowl. He said
“the the dressing always sinks to the bottom and when you display it on a platter it’s visually more attractive”
After that discussion I decided to try serving salads on a platter. It was a perfect opportunity for me to use this beautiful Umbra Platter I got as a gift from my cousins.
Salad idea #1: Basic Green Salad
Ingredients: Bibb Lettuce , Corn shoots that I found at Natures Emporium, mini corn, carrots, zucchini.
Here’s what the corn shoots looked like, when I bought them at the store. How pretty is that?
Salad idea #2 Spinach Salad
Ingredients: Spinach, red onion, toasted almonds, mushrooms, hard boiled eggs
Salad idea #3 Morrocon Inspired Salad
Ingredients: Lettuce, oranges, dates, marcona almonds, pomegranate seeds
Other salad that I could make using this platter include:
Nicoise: black olives, tuna, red onion, lettuce, hard boiled eggs.
Israeli: cucumbers, tomatoes, parsley, couscous, chick peas
I have to admit, I really enjoyed preparing these salads and then eating them too!! Due to my love for making salads, it has prevented me from eating salads in restaurants. I rarely go to Freshii or Fresh..even though everyone tells me that their salads are fabulous.
I use to go to a restaurant at Bayview Village for their famous salad bar but for some reason I stopped going there too.
I guess I really like to go to restaurants to eat food I can’t make at home. Anyone else agree?
I totally agree that I want to try things in a restaurant the I wouldn’t make at home. The problem is that the more adventurous you become in your cooking at home and the better you get at it, the less things there are to try when you go out.