World's Best Salad

[dreamshark]

The world's best salad starts at Kowalski's olive bar with a little tub of sweet-hot piquante peppers mixed with those little brown olives with cubes of feta cheese. Put a big pile of baby spinach in one of the large covered plastic dishes that my local Chinese takeout place uses for General Tso's chicken. Top with pieces of roast chicken breast, finely sliced green onions, and a couple of heaping spoonfuls of leftover cooked vegies (something with yams or potatoes in it is best). Ladle on about a quarter cup of the olive bar mixture, including at  least a tablespoonful of the juices, which is all the dressing the salad needs. If you're a complete Philistine like me, you can now corrupt this spectacular gourmet salad with a sprinkle of Bacos.  Alternatively (or additionally) - nuts, sunflower seeds, or seasoned croutons. Stir it up to distribute the ingredients (or put the lid back on and shake vigorously if you're using the Chinese takeout container).

Mmmmm. This is SO good! 

You can tell it's spring because I start craving salad. I don't much care for salad in the winter (or ice cream, for that matter. It's not that I eat healthier in the summer, just differently). Do other people have tastes in food that change radically with the seasons?  thorintatge thinks it is most peculiar.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

My tastes don't seem to be seasonal, no. On particular hot days I don't want to cook, and sometimes eat, particular things just because of how nasty it makes the kitchen, but in an air-conditioned restaurant I'd happily eat meatloaf with a baked potato in August.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely more averse to salads in the winter. I think of eating one and it just seems too cold. I want hot foods then.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I like salad better in the summer, too.

K.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"...sweet-hot piquante peppers..."

I love those at Kowalski's, too.

B

[quility.livejournal.com]

That sounds SO good!

My tastes change seasonally and I have always thought it was a very natural human characteristic to be interested in the food that is available locally in season.

I wish I'd rememebred to bring dinner tonight. ah well. Maybe I'll stop by a Kowalski's on the way home...

[thorintatge.livejournal.com]

I don't actually think it's peculiar; it just isn't true for me.

[mmagidow.livejournal.com]

Not only seasonally, but regionally. I have noticed that when in a warm state (CA, Hawaii) fruit, avocados, and fruit juice are the big crave. They absolutely do not appeal to me in the midwest. I guess I am truly a locavore at heart.