The Omnivores' Diary

I don't know why I'm totally into discussing salads with you today. Maybe I'm craving for one??? But anyway the question is this: Do we have a lot of things to learn about salad? Oh yes, we do buddy! This blog will give you basic know-how about one topic- SALAD. First things first... Types of Salad. There are three: Simple salad, Composed salad and Salad plates. Simple Salad- composed of one type of salad green:  it can either be a leaf lettuce salad (refer to the different types of salad greens below. there's at least ten you know!), raw or cooked vegetable salad, sprout salad or legume salad  Composed Salad- various combination of salad ingredients such as leafy greens, raw and cooked vegetables, sprouts, legumes, rice or pasta and garnish. It is supposed to be a meal in itself. An example would be tuna nicois e.  Salad Plates- a variety of dressed salads arranged like a bouquet : mixed green salad, raw and cooked vegetable salads, mushroom salads, le...

Most of the time when it comes to making salad or ordering salad, we are not very interested as to where it came from. Most of us think that it is just pieces of leaves tossed in your choice of vinaigrette or dressing. All we are concerned about is that:  it is healthy (depends on how much dressing you put into it and the ingredients of that dressing... if it is full of mayonnaise then it's not as healthy as you think, my dear!) it cools us down (especially during a hot summer day where it is very nice to eat fresh salad cooled down in the fridge) it tastes divine (depending on your taste preference- the combination of ingredients and its special dressing/vinaigrette). But really... these salads have an origin. Just look at the way of preparation as well as the ingredients feautured in that salad- you will know! From Waldorf Salad of England to the Caesar Salad of Mexico* down to the Raita of India and the Greek salad of... obviously, Greece! But wait... how about...