How to Simply Dress a Green Salad - Perkins' Good Earth Farm (2024)

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Green salads are eaten at the beginning of a meal, with the entrée, or after the main course. Most leafy vegetables that can be eaten raw are used: all varieties of lettuce, garden cress and watercress, endives, cabbage, spinach, escarole, romaine (cos), arugula, and fresh herbs.

Green salads are eaten at the beginning of a meal, with the entrée, or after the main course. Most leafy vegetables that can be eaten raw are used: all varieties of lettuce, garden cress and watercress, endives, cabbage, spinach, escarole, romaine (cos), arugula, and fresh herbs.

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By adding your dressing to the bowl first, you avoid a soggy salad, as the majority of toppings won't touch the liquid. It also makes tossing the salad and fully coating your greens easy, as you simply have to toss a few times to ensure an even distribution of dressing.

Salads must be dressed in the moment—when the rest of the dinner is prepared, and people are ready to sit down to welcome it. At this time put your prepped salad greens and minced herbs in a mixing bowl. (If you have additions for your salad, then temporarily set them aside.)

Spring-like combinations are created by combining mint + white or sky blue + cream. For eye-catching looks, green can be combined very well with bright colours. Colour blocking works with grass green + pink, forest green + orange or bottle green + red, for example.

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Salad Dressing Day—people dress like their favorite salad dressing: Ranch (Cowboy), Caesar (togas and sandals), Thousand Island (Caribbean/Hawaiian), Blue Cheese (Blue), French (berets and fashionable clothes), House Dressing (school colors), etc.

A green salad, or green leaf salad, another name for garden salad, is most often composed of leafy vegetables such as lettuce varieties, spinach, or rocket (arugula). If non-greens make up a large portion of the salad it may instead be called a vegetable salad.

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Base: usually a layer of salad greens that line the plate or bowl in which the salad will be served. Body: consists of the main ingredients. Garnish: enhances the appearance while also complementing the overall taste; must be edible. Salad dressings: are liquids or semi-liquids used to flavor salads.

Lettuce actually needs a good amount of airflow, in addition to a bit of moisture (but not too much!), in order to stay crisp. That's why restaurants store their lettuce in special perforated bins that allow for air circulation while it's held in the fridge.

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Dress half your salad with half your dressing the night before, and pack the other half of the salad and the dressing for lunch.

Fresh and tender garden lettuces greens don't require much to make an amazing salad. This light and flavorful lemon vinaigrette is a perfect pair with lettuces and arugula from your garden or the farmers market.

A great way of adding flavour is by loading up your salad with herbs such as mint, coriander, parsley, basil and micro herbs. You can either toss through whole leaves and microherbs, tear the leaves up by hand, or finely slice and stir the herbs through your dressing.