Romaine, red leaf and frison lettuce of some sort sweet red onion hard boiled eggs orange, yellow and green peppers slived manzanilla olives garlic-onion croutons sunflower seeds dried sweetened cranberries crumbled blue cheese sundried-tomatoe dressing
In retrospect, black olives would have been better.
The olives and the strawberries together are weird.
Bingo... That's the only issue I've got with it -- it's the wrong kind of salty/musky, whereas the strawberries are going toward sweet/tangy. It's like deciding your chocolate-chip cookies really need pickled herring on top.
Balsamic vinegar is (to me, at least) both tart and slightly sweet, while strawberries are sweet and slightly tart. So, there's a kind of association there that means it *might* work, and it's a matter of finding whether the overtone flavors work.
Depends on how they're brined. As much as I love exotic olives of all colors and flavors, good old canned black olives have a sort of comfort-food status for me, going back to childhood Thanksgivings when my siblings and I used to eat them off the ends of our fingers. (-:
I call my version "refrigerator salad", because I use pretty much anything that's in my refrigerator. Last night's salad was mixed greens with kalamata, black and green olives; feta cheese; blueberries; ground bison; grilled yellow and red peppers; slivered almonds; and a mango poppyseed dressing.
Mostly I just like food, so as long as it's edible and doesn't taste like fish ass, I support putting it into salad format.
though i said yes to olives - really, i'll always say yes to olives - it occurs to me that the actual gustatory results woulde be *very* different, depending on what kind of black olives they were. i would prefer the sharp tang of a briny kalamata, as opposed to the understated sponginess of a generic canned black olive.
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Date: 2005-08-05 02:03 am (UTC)Romaine, red leaf and frison lettuce of some sort
sweet red onion
hard boiled eggs
orange, yellow and green peppers
slived manzanilla olives
garlic-onion croutons
sunflower seeds
dried sweetened cranberries
crumbled blue cheese
sundried-tomatoe dressing
In retrospect, black olives would have been better.
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Date: 2005-08-05 02:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-05 02:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-05 02:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-05 03:29 am (UTC)I hadn't ever considered cucumbers and strawberries together, but it might work. Cucumbers are just melons, after all.
That last tickybox is irrestisible, you know that.
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Date: 2005-08-05 03:57 am (UTC)Bingo... That's the only issue I've got with it -- it's the wrong kind of salty/musky, whereas the strawberries are going toward sweet/tangy. It's like deciding your chocolate-chip cookies really need pickled herring on top.
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Date: 2005-08-05 04:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-08-05 11:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-05 05:37 am (UTC)I love black olives, and they're neutral-flavored enough that I might just try them on a salad with strawberries.
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Date: 2005-08-05 03:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-05 05:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-05 08:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-05 09:49 am (UTC)Mostly I just like food, so as long as it's edible and doesn't taste like fish ass, I support putting it into salad format.
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Date: 2005-08-05 01:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-05 01:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-09 02:35 pm (UTC)