Garden Leaf lettuce ...help
#12
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I use our 3 kinds of leaf lettuce along with our iceberg lettuce to make a general green salad. I cut everything into small pieces, add mushrooms, carrots, celery, red onion. I cut tomatoes and cucumbers and put in separate dishes. Then, put your finely chopped salad into a bowl, add a dressing of choice and then add the tomatoes and cucumbers. Delicious and very easy to eat.
#14
I use my garden lettuce to make a 'normal' salad - lettuce, carrots, celery, radishes, red onion, etc. Then put any kind of dressing you like - italian, french, ranch, etc. DH and I have found that we enjoy salads lately with just olive oil and fresh lemon juice - simple and healthy, without all the additives in the prepared salad dressings.
This is the type of salad we had when I was growing up. I never had a 'wilted' salad, except if I ordered a spinach salad in a restaurant. DH's cousin asked me recently how I used my garden lettuce. I thought that was a strange question and told her I just used it in a 'regular' salad. She said her mom only fixed garden lettuce with a wilted dressing! Maybe it's a midwest thing? (I grew up on the east coast).
Interesting how we all have differing habits and ways of doing things.......
This is the type of salad we had when I was growing up. I never had a 'wilted' salad, except if I ordered a spinach salad in a restaurant. DH's cousin asked me recently how I used my garden lettuce. I thought that was a strange question and told her I just used it in a 'regular' salad. She said her mom only fixed garden lettuce with a wilted dressing! Maybe it's a midwest thing? (I grew up on the east coast).
Interesting how we all have differing habits and ways of doing things.......
#18
My grandmother used this recipe for leaf lettuce salad. Take a small can of Carnation condensed milk, add 1 tablespoon of sugar, enough white vinegar - add slowly and stir- to make the milk curdle. Too much or too little vinegar and it will not work, and it isn't instant. The milk will become very smooth and thick and tangy/sweet. Pour over lettuce which has been torn and twisted into bite sized pieces. Very different, very good.
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#20
We have always had our garden lettuce with fried crumbled bacon, and a dressing of half and half, sugar and cider vinegar (usually made with 2cups 1/2&1/2 and 1/4 cup each sugar and vinegar) and we eat ours on mashed potato with more crumbled bacon. It's an awesome seasonal meal - left over salad will not keep with dressing on it - it gets too mushy.
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