, but I am not really sure that you can call anything a Cobb salad without the avocado and blue cheese! Neither of us eat avocado, and I am the only one who eats blue cheese. Sometimes when there is pricier ingredient like that that only one of us eats, we end up just skipping it to stay in our budget. I could never eat up a whole container of blue cheese before it goes bad! I will have to have that next time I'm at a restaurant!But this cute little salad, if you like it like the Dishwasher or if you like it like the Cook, packs in a lot of protein, and is very refreshing on a hot day. To tell you the truth, it was exactly what I was craving when we got back from Paris a couple of weeks ago. Now, I love French food, and in fact, I ate myself into a tummy-ache one night. So maybe that's why when we got back I was really craving a crunchy American salad!
His Power Salad (it's the one on the left!)
serves 1
Ingredients:
2-3 cups chopped red leaf lettuce
1/2 large skinless, boneless chicken breast, poached and diced
4 thin slices turkey bacon, cooked according to package directions and crumbled
2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
1/4 feta cheese crumbles
Her Power Salad (it's the one on the right!)
serves 1
Ingredients:
2-3 cups chopped red leaf lettuce
1 diced plum tomato
1/2 cup diced peeled cucumber
1/2 large skinless, boneless chicken breast, poached and diced
2 thin slices turkey bacon, cooked according to package directions and crumbled
2 hard-boiled egg whites
1 Tbsp shredded low-fat Mexican blend cheese
Dressing for All
serves 4
Ingredients:
3 Tbsp red-wine vinegar
1/2 small onion, very finely chopped
1 Tbsp whole-grain mustard
freshly ground pepper to taste
a pinch of salt
4 tsp canola oil
1 Tbsp agave nectar
Directions:
1. Arrange each salad on plates, placing each ingredient in neat rows.
2. Whisk together the salad dressing ingredients.
3. Pour about 2 Tbsp of dressing over each salad. (You will have leftovers. Enjoy them, this is a very well-balanced dressing.)
Both versions sound great!
ReplyDeleteI'm a girl but it sounds like I wanna eat his salad :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing,
Tes
These look wonderful! I love the striped presentation--gives me a good idea for next Thursday's dinner, too! (Thursdays are when my neighborhood Farmer's Market is open and I have tokens left over from last week.) So...when blue cheese goes "bad," does it get bluer??
ReplyDeleteIf you buy blue cheese in a block and not crumbled, it will last up the three to four weeks in the fridge :D
ReplyDeleteLet me know how the baked beans turns out - still pissed I didn't get a picture of it, but it was so good!