We tend not to have many "chefs salads" with lots of ingrediants - every now and then we may have a chicken salad, but not often. Typically we eat baby spinach and red pepper salad - or romaine with tomato and cucumber and maybe pepper - or chinese leaf and orange segments in winter. Our basic dressing is always extra virgin olive oil and vinegar (always red wine with spinach; usually apple cider with other salads), salt and pepper, then mustard - usually dijon, sometimes wholegrain with spinach. With chinese leaf, we either just squeeze an orange over or use juice rather than vinegar in the dressing, and add honey too.

We're very dull.

Lucy

Sun Dried Tomato
Roasted Pepper
Tuna Salad
Seafood Salad
Beets
Leftover Cooked Veggies

I love dried cranberries on my salads. I'm also a big fan of raspberry vinaigrette. I will go with oil and vinegar if I don't have nay oof that around. Cheese is another staple as well as sesame sticks and/or soy nuts. I do enjoy a good cucumber as well. We don't eat as many salads as we should but every now and then it's a good, healthy treat.

Here a few things I don't remember seeing listed that we have put on salads, not all at once of course.

baby corn segments, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, snow peas, dried cranberries, nuts, sunflower seeds, sliced yellow squash and sliced zucchini

I also like to add -
broccoli and cauliflower florets cut small,
cottage cheese,
edamame (green soy beans),
mesclin (mixed baby greens),
walnuts,
salad shrimp,
red onion,
green onion
feta cheese
sliced mushroom (fresh)

our fav dressing is just olive oil and either balsamic vinegar or red wine vinegar with a dash of salt.

Tammy,

I love to have onion on my salad...purple onions!

Melinda

Some of my faves include Drained Mandarin Orange segments, Dried Cranberries, and Drained Pineapple chunks.

A salad we like to have that's sort of 'fancy' is spinach mixed with field greens or mesclun mix, sliced ripe pears, crumbled feta cheese, and maybe some sliced almonds or other nut. Then I top it with this dressing:

1-2T Apricot jam, depending on how sweet you like it
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
vinegar, any sort, I have a pear infused white basalmic that works well, 2 T
Olive oil

I heat the jam a little to thin it, then add the other ingredients and whisk in the olive oil. I don't measure the oil so I don't know how much. Then I season with salt and pepper and pour over the salad.

We've done a similar salad with sliced apples, slices of cheddar cheese, and a dressing made from apple juice, apple cider vinegar,dijon mustard and olive oil. I haven't made any of these salads in long time.

I have one more that I LOVE, but others may not like it. Take 2-3 large oranges, peel them and slice in rings. Arrange the rings on a plate, top with thinly sliced red onion and chopped FRESH oregano. Then drizzle with olive oil, a little red wine vinegar and salt/pepper. Oh it is so good- somehow the flavors complement each really well. Can't wait till oranges are back in season!Hope this gives you some ideas :)

Let's see, I also like to have some cottage cheese w/my salad. Added protein and I'd like to think I don't use as much dressing w/that around.

I didn't see hard boiled eggs on your list but might have missed. I also like:

edamame
ground flaxseed
sweet banana pepper rings

HOpe these make your list!

Bobbie *Ü*

We eat salad often around here. Some of our fixings include:
onions (green, vidalia, or red)
green bell peppers
cheese (cheddar, mexican, mozzerella, feta, parmesan)
turkey
bacon
hotdogs (cut up)
tabasco sauce
broccoli
dried oregano
black pepper
garlic pepper
extra virgin olive oil (always)
balsamic vinegar
red wine vinegar
homemade honey-mustard dressing
diced chicken (any flavor, we use leftovers, too)
taco meat
salsa
crushed up tortilla chips
carrots
tuna fish

You get my drift. We'll put just about anything on salad. We belong to a food ministry and get a TON of bagged lettuce each week. We usually have salads for lunch 3-4 days per week.

We love to add raisins, dried cranberries, chopped apple (red or green), red onion, avocado, chopped walnuts or almonds, onions, Romano cheese and balsamic vinaigrette is the only way to go for us.

...is just to put a dash of olive oil, a splash of lemon juice, and some sprinkles of basil/oregano/dill. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Kathleen

I only like salad one way, dark greens with feta cheese, cucumbers, real bacon bits , hard boiled egg slices and plain old Balsamic Vinegar.
Lela www.xanga.com/lmcs79

In our house we eat a LOT of salads, and no salad would be complete without raisins!
They add a sweetness amongst all the savory ingredients that just can't be beaten!

Other salad fixings we can't live without: Chick peas, green peas (frozen, but run under warm tap water), garden fresh tomatoes, chopped avacado, sunflower seeds, bean sprouts, pickled beets, and mushrooms.

Dana

We love salads! We grew up eating alot of salad at home, but usually our salad was leaf or romaine lettuce, cut up broccoli (diced finely), tomatoes (served separately) cucumbers and dressing.
I do eat a basic salad, but I love ones that have mushrooms, sunflower seeds on them, slivered almonds, dried cranberries, sun dried tomatoes, bacon bits, not on all the same salad of course!
One that we served at a wedding recently was lettuce, field greens, sliced strawberries, slivered almonds, dried cranberries, croutons. It was served witha honey mustard dressing, but I ate mine with vinegar and oil dressing since I dislike mustard.
We always made homemade ranch dressing at home as that was the favorite and for Italian just did vinegar and oil dressing.
Another favorite was sliced lettuce, grated cheese, grated carrots toss with vinagar, oil , salt and pepper.
We loved diced beets on salad, not pickled ones, just cooked ones!
Another salad that is not with lettuce is Lentil salad

perfect salad (in my opinion)

GREEN lettuce, the greener the better
baby spinach
shredded carrots
diced celery
sliced GREEN olives
sliced GREEN grapes
or
sliced strawberries
or
pineapple tidbits
or sometimes a little of all three
sliced fresh chives, the whole stick!
fresh chopped broccoli
chopped bell pepper
little bit of cheddar cheese, too much ruins it
crumbled real bacon
warm chopped freshly grilled chicken
homemade buttermilk ranch dressing (ice cold)

honey, it'll make you mmmm, mm!