good - and easy - salad recipe/dressing?

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Registered: 09-22-2006
good - and easy - salad recipe/dressing?
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Fri, 09-22-2006 - 9:46am

hey there,

I'm new to to these forums. I registered here cause I want to get into cooking - and I think here are the people that can help me :) Having moved out things get - well let's say things are not so easy anymore when you have to cook for yourself instead of just having to sit down at the table ;)

So, I want to make myself a good salat sometimes. I don't want it to be a "boring" one though - you know only the salad with the dressing. Are there any easy but somehow special variations that I could try out? And also, are there any easy selfmade dressings to fit with them? I don't really want to buy a dressing cause they don't fit my taste too often.

I also made a blog about recipes (http://lostchef.hobbies.homepagenow.com) - well not really a blog it seems that you get some all-in-one solution there - that I want to fill up with some content soon. If I would be allowed to use the recipes that anyone here can contribute it would be great :)

Edited 9/25/2006 4:13 am ET by lostchef




Edited 9/25/2006 4:14 am ET by lostchef
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Tue, 09-26-2006 - 7:22am

Misstrygg I added your name to all of the recipes so I hope it's alright now :)

I'm gonna try that chicken. It reads tasty. As for the lonely cooks best friends:

I got a peppermill, and I agree that it is useful in many ways. The only real problem I have is with my kitchen being really small...if you can even call it a kitchen...and it get's no direct daylight. Wonder who planned this...it's not so much fun to cook there. And it's too small for two people standing there and cook together...*sigh*

Another thing: have any of you thought about a cooking blog, where you (or we) as a group could post recipes? I do like my recipe blog very much, but it has very little content yet. I would love to build up a base of things that I could try out. And I got the opportunity to grant posting rights to other people. You all seem to know so much more about cooking than I do so it could grow pretty fast :)

edit: forgot to mention that I LOVE the taste of dried tomatoes :)




Edited 9/26/2006 7:23 am ET by lostchef
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Tue, 09-26-2006 - 8:13am

I am writing a cookbook in Sweden and I used to have a cooking blog in Swedish and I am trying to get frugal Board going with messages called The daily dinner since I once had the daily Porridge there and it was about breakfast.


Sadly the Daily dinner isn't up and running, I got

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Tue, 09-26-2006 - 9:54am

"Sadly the Daily dinner isn't up and running, I got flu, then I got infected tooth and then I ended up in ER allergic to medicine and now I am cortisone for week."

oh I'm sorry to hear that. That's really what you might call unlucky ;-)

yeah I do have a freezer. If I can manage to cook a rather big amount of food at once I wouldn't have anything against freezing it for later :) the swedish army really has tasty food?`;)

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Tue, 09-26-2006 - 11:29am

Yes Swedish army has really healthy and

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Tue, 09-26-2006 - 2:23pm

I'm a big salad fan, but I'm the only one in my house that adds anything to the greens others that carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes.

http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a306/yttap/siggys/
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Tue, 09-26-2006 - 5:49pm
When I was a kid, and would visit my grandmother in the very small rural town where I was born, she loved salad.

hunk 'o, hunk 'o burnin' heartburn!

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Wed, 09-27-2006 - 9:05am

I have done that too and it worked well.

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Wed, 09-27-2006 - 11:50am

I've loved reading all the recipes for dressings!!

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Wed, 09-27-2006 - 2:02pm

I use canola oil if I don't want to much flavor

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Wed, 09-27-2006 - 2:42pm

Another thing I do to cut the fat in my diet is to top my salad with fresh salsa.

http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a306/yttap/siggys/