Comments on: The Green Salad Faux Pas http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas Cooking - Photography & More Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:22:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Hank http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1606 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:52:14 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1606 I am SO with you, Miles! I am something of a 'green salad snob,' but I live in California so I have access to wonderful greens all year long. <a href="http://www.honest-food.net/blog1/2007/12/01/a-proper-salad/" rel="nofollow">This salad</a>, or a variant thereof, is on nearly every one of my dinner menus... I am SO with you, Miles! I am something of a ‘green salad snob,’ but I live in California so I have access to wonderful greens all year long. This salad, or a variant thereof, is on nearly every one of my dinner menus…

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1591 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:40:58 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1591 Annie/Elsie There are some truly great mixed salads to be eaten, but they are totally seperate to a classic green salad which serves an entirely different purpose. 'Classic' salads are designed to serve a specific purpose, the problem is that people bugger about with them to the extent that their original reason becomes somewhat lost. Miles Annie/Elsie
There are some truly great mixed salads to be eaten, but they are totally seperate to a classic green salad which serves an entirely different purpose. ‘Classic’ salads are designed to serve a specific purpose, the problem is that people bugger about with them to the extent that their original reason becomes somewhat lost.
Miles

]]> by: Elsie Nean http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1589 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:50:30 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1589 Miles, I loved the salads in Italy served as a starter. They tended to be lovely, fresh green salads and never over seasoned. As you say, a real starter before a good main dish. I think I need to go back there. The average "salad" served in gastropubs alongside dishes in the UK are disgusting. How anyone can just sling a few bits of torn off cabbage/salad with 2 bits of cucumber and tomato on a plate and call it a salad is beyond me. Elsie Miles,
I loved the salads in Italy served as a starter. They tended to be lovely, fresh green salads and never over seasoned. As you say, a real starter before a good main dish. I think I need to go back there.
The average “salad” served in gastropubs alongside dishes in the UK are disgusting. How anyone can just sling a few bits of torn off cabbage/salad with 2 bits of cucumber and tomato on a plate and call it a salad is beyond me.
Elsie

]]> by: Annie Flinn http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1586 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:25:28 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1586 During a recent decadent mini-holiday (spent in my living room with an old school chum), my friend and I made scones, and I delighted in eating the with a touch of Key lime curd. What a sinful pleasure!!! I had originally gone to the shop in search of lemon curd (all sold out), and took the Key lime one on a whim. What a wonderful surprise. Your post on salads interested me a great deal. Most of our restaurants have a whole section of their menu dedicated to the varying types of salads they prepare. My favorite home prepared one consists of a 50-50 blend of mixed baby greens and fresh spinach, dried cranberries, pine nuts, tomatoes, all topped with a raspberry walnut vinaigrette. I eat this as my dessert. I know Miles must be spinning with disgust by now. Chalk it up to the unsophisticated palate of a colonial. During a recent decadent mini-holiday (spent in my living room with an old school chum), my friend and I made scones, and I delighted in eating the with a touch of Key lime curd. What a sinful pleasure!!! I had originally gone to the shop in search of lemon curd (all sold out), and took the Key lime one on a whim. What a wonderful surprise.

Your post on salads interested me a great deal. Most of our restaurants have a whole section of their menu dedicated to the varying types of salads they prepare. My favorite home prepared one consists of a 50-50 blend of mixed baby greens and fresh spinach, dried cranberries, pine nuts, tomatoes, all topped with a raspberry walnut vinaigrette. I eat this as my dessert. I know Miles must be spinning with disgust by now. Chalk it up to the unsophisticated palate of a colonial.

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1582 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:17:03 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1582 Cid, What a thought :) Miles Cid,
What a thought :)

Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1581 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:53:58 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1581 Miles, One day Auntie Cid will drop by Reception and leave a pot with your name on it. Our usual courier service might forget to part with it or leave it for a week out of the fridge... or worse still, try it as a hair product! Cid Miles,

One day Auntie Cid will drop by Reception and leave a pot with your name on it. Our usual courier service might forget to part with it or leave it for a week out of the fridge… or worse still, try it as a hair product!

Cid

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1579 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:11:16 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1579 Cid, Salad recipes will be forthcoming, have no fear. I love lemon curd, make sure you don't waste any on a tuesday! Miles Cid,
Salad recipes will be forthcoming, have no fear. I love lemon curd, make sure you don’t waste any on a tuesday!

Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1578 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:27:02 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-green-salad-faux-pas#comment-1578 Miles, There's a place in Lincoln where the salad includes finely grated carrot/beetroot and pumpkin/sunflower seeds with a light vinaigrette. Apart from this, I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a salad in a restaurant. I like the sound of your green salad. Today with ten minutes and one large lemon to spare, I made a pot of lemon curd. So much more enjoyable than cleaning out the drain to the shower :) and now with the last of the afternoon sun I'm off for a walk. Cid Miles,

There’s a place in Lincoln where the salad includes finely grated carrot/beetroot and pumpkin/sunflower seeds with a light vinaigrette. Apart from this, I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed a salad in a restaurant. I like the sound of your green salad.

Today with ten minutes and one large lemon to spare, I made a pot of lemon curd. So much more enjoyable than cleaning out the drain to the shower :) and now with the last of the afternoon sun I’m off for a walk.

Cid

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