Remember that old Dunkin Donuts commercial where the chubby man would shuffle into the store, eyelids heavy, and then he'd drone "Time to make the donuts?" Well, substitute salad for donuts and put my face on his, and you got the enthusiasm I feel about making the pre-dinner greenery.Growing up it was my job to make the salad. It was a job I hated. I guess it was all the chopping or something. Though I LOVE to eat a good resturant salad, to this day I still hate to make salad. That's why I seldom have it for dinner at home.
But there is another reason my family doesn't eat salad at dinner. I can't make it. Sure, I can cook a three course Italian meal without blinking and eye, but when it comes to salad mine just never turns out right.
I'm trying to figure out why and here's a couple of reasons I come up with.
1. By the time I get around to making salad, it's wilted and old.
2. After I thouroughly wash my salad and use that salad spinner, my greens look like they've been through a hurricane. All wet and wilty.
3. I never have enough good salad extras in my refrigerator. Sure I buy tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers, etc. But by the time I get around to making salad they're wilted and moldy.
So why can't I make a good salad? Any ideas or solutions.
I've tried buying those READY TO EAT THOUROUGHLY WASHED pre packaged types, and I seem to have the best luck with those when I eat them before the experation date. But sometimes I get the idea that I SHOULD wash it anyway, especially with the E Coli scare, and when I do I get wet wilted leaves! YUCK!So what's a salad lover to do? I guess if I can't figure this out I'll just have to keep ordering salad out. At least I won't have to make the salad!
5 comments:
Maybe you should try using fresh veggies. Just a suggestion ;)
Avocados - always a good addition.
Substitute strawberries for tomatoes and add walnuts. Mmm, mmm, good.
Uh, by fresh do you mean the day I get them. Guess that would work if I didn't try and throw dinner together at the last minute!
And I love spinach salad with strawberries and walnuts, but gotta watch out for that E Coli!
I used to have the same problem unil I got in the habit of eating a salad everyday. Once I did that then I mad sure I had fresh salad available (and I dropped the tomatoes, which always end up going bad.) Usually I do lettuce and carrots with chickpeas, cheese, or nuts and salad dressing, which is much less likely to go bad.
I am with you on this one...I do not make salads that often for many of the same reasons.
I will have to check back to see what pearls of wisdom you receive.
The e-coli thing has kept me away from salads since it happened. But here's what I do/did: chop the veggies the same night I buy/bought them. Cut them all, all at once. Store in gladware containers. Then it's all ready the next night.
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