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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Salad Ideas/Poll
I'm in a salad rut - I rotate among a cranberry walnut green salad with champagne vinaigrette, a strawberry & spinach salad, and a scallion-black olive-tomato green salad with a dijon vinaigrette. So a few questions for you:
1) What's your favorite salad?
2) Do you have a favorite go-to bottled salad dressing or do you prefer to make your own?
3) Any salad recipes you'd like to share?
Re: Salad Ideas/Poll
1. spinach salad with grapefruit and avocado slices. I make my own dressing with oil, vinegar, the grapefruit juice that is left in the rind/on the cutting board and a little dijon and pepper.
2. I usually just make an oil/vinegar combo but we usually have a creamy dressing and a premade vinegrette. Love the Annie's naturals pomegranite lately.
1) What's your favorite salad? I would have to say the pizza salad that I make. There's a place in my hometown in Hawaii that has amazing salads but I haven't found any places like that here in Germany. They are seriously lacking in the salad department.
2) Do you have a favorite go-to bottled salad dressing or do you prefer to make your own? I am always looking for delicious - and healthy - salad dressings... so no, I don't have a favorite.
3) Any salad recipes you'd like to share? The two most common salads I make are below (they aren't anything special but they are easy):
1. LUNCH SALAD: Lettuce, grapes, strawberries, chicken (usually the frozen chicken or veggie patties from Morning Star) and craisins... put that all together with some raspberry vinegarette.
2. DINNER SALAD: Lettuce, sliced olives, green pepper, turkey pepperoni with low-fat mozzerella cheese. Mix that (you can add things like mushrooms and onions) together, put some low-fat parmesean on top if you want. We use tomato sauce - very little - as the dressing.
Where? I've been looking for a good salad place here!
2) Do you have a favorite go-to bottled salad dressing or do you prefer to make your own? I usually use a little olive oil and 18-year balsamic vinegar (mmmmm!) I also like to use Penzey's salad seasoning. But I sometimes make my mom's poppy seed dressing as a treat.
3) Any salad recipes you'd like to share? I'll share my mom's poppy seed dressing recipe:
I will warn you that it isn't exactly a "healthy" recipe.
Lots of sugar..... But it's soooooo yummy!
1/4 - 1/2 cups chopped onion
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
2 1/2 tbsp. poppy seeds
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. dry mustard
1 1/2 tsp paprika
1 cup olive oil
-Combine 1st 7 ingredients in a blender of food processor. SLowly add the oil and continue blending until thick. Can be used as a dip, salad dressing, or marinade.
2) Do you have a favorite go-to bottled salad dressing or do you prefer to make your own? I'm not too picky, but K loves Pietro's Shoyu dressing. It's hard to find in our area, so we have our parents send us care packages with bottles of the stuff. It tastes great, so I don't mind inconveniencing my momma every couple months.
3) Any salad recipes you'd like to share? I tried this one for Chinese chicken salad the other day and thought it was good. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chinese-chicken-salad-iii/detail.aspx
Like you, I am all about the cranberry walnut mixed greens salad with vinaigrette as well as spinach salad. If I am out, I'll usually order a Cobb Salad. J always orders caesar, usually with chicken or shrimp but we never make these salads at home.
Our go-to bottles of dressing are Ken's Chunky Bleu Cheese and Annies Naturals Goddess Dressing. We have random bottles of Caesar and Italian too.
Recently, I did make a taco salad for dinner and it was delish. Basically you put everything you would put on a taco in a salad bowl. I just used a vinaigrette dressing, but some people will use a french or tomato-based dressing for taco salads.
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OK that is really funny b/c I tend to make those TWO EXACT SALADS ALL THE TIME!
I always use baby spinach or baby greens. Don't like anything else.
I just mix up the add-ins...
Fruits: Strawberries! Cubed green apples! apricots! dried cranberries! red grapes cut in half!
Veggies: Cherry tomatoes
Nuts: Honey-roasted sliced almonds, plain sliced almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, pistacios, pecans...
And sometimes I get wacky... Like just this past week I threw in some goldfish. You know, they're like croutons, right?
For dressing, I LOVE the Good Seasons salad dressing mix!!!
Malia & Dave & Alexa
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Jaime - It's called Aloha Salads. They have delicious salads and sandwiches. A little pricey but very fresh ingredients. The one in Kailua opened up in early 2009. Per their websites, they have three locations: Kailua, Kahala Mall and Kapolei. http://www.alohasalads.com/location-a-hours.html
Jaime & Brent
Oahu, Hawaii | Sept. 9, 2005
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