My very favorite grocery store has a salad on its salad bar that is filled with all kinds of vegetables and the dressing is a delicious off-the-shelf vinaigrette called Garlic Expressions. (Pickled garlic cloves are in this dressing...yum!) I've purchased this salad a few times and always think, "This would be so easy to make," and so the other day after looking at the veggie bin, it was time to get out my favorite knife and start chopping away. It was one of those salads that started out small but grew and grew and grew. A half bag of spinach, broccoli bits, red and orange peppers, cherry tomatoes, a couple carrots, mushrooms, red onion, pea pods, cauliflower topped with the Garlic Expressions dressing filled my largest salad bowl. Todd and I had this with dinner and barely put a dent in this pile of produce. I took some to my son's fianceé, the next day had some for lunch, and then finally polished the last of it off at dinner. If you want to use up vegetables and get the recommended daily portions intake, this is a tasty and easy way to go.
Who hasn't spent time
brushing their cutting board of
cauliflower bits?
The art of creative cooking, is making something amazing from what is at hand.
ReplyDeleteI have fun channeling my inner "Chopped" contestant persona and seeing what makes it to the table.
DeleteThat sound delicious. I've been making a lot of salads lately. I'm going to look for that dressing.
ReplyDeleteI've making a lot of salads, too, and they really hit the spot. I hope you find Garlic Expressions...it's a delicious salad dressing and marinade.
DeleteI was just kidding my chef (SWMBO) the other day about how when she makes a salad it becomes a monster. In size, that is. Good thing I like her food. But I haven't heard of Garlic Expressions. I'll search for it.
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