Crunch crunch moistness mmm.
I think the thing which ruines salads for me previously is how frequently raw onions and tomatoes get added to them. Now that I took salads without those, turns out I like them. Also, all of the salads I liked had a grain addition (grain eater, please, no, not my salads!) which I think adds a lot. Salads are very nice: as long as they're more than just tomatoes, bitter leaves and raw onion slices - this is an abomination, idk why so many places sell this.
I'd formulate the ideal salad something like this:
- green leaves (avoid too bitter ones) for green and crunch
- sauce to moisturize it
- a grain (the grains I had were white ones which don't look or taste like rice - they were moist on their own and very pleasant to add)
- non-veg addition: e.g. falafel balls, nuts (e.g. walnuts), tiny toast cubes ("croutons"), tiny cheese cubes
Most has to be veg, but the addition of else is mandatory, especially the grain. Texture is such an important part of eating.
Enjoy your salads. :3
Tomatoes are good smh
Onions shouldn't be served raw but boiled or at least run through hot waterNah raw onion is great, it just needs to be thinly sliced so it doesn't overpower the other stuff.
Can’t believe the admins have allowed this place to become this disgusting. This rule 2 violation is so blatant that it makes my stomach churn. I’ve been here for a long time, trying my best to be a good salad comrade, and now people like you can just waltz around and flagrantly talk about eating my people. Disappointing.
Peak leftist infighting lmao
A little red onion is nice, or finely sliced spring onions (scallions - a strange name, I've always thought, because it reminds me of the word rapscallion) Pearl barley is nice for a bit of bite.
A nice homemade dressing is the most important bit for me - once you've mastered the simple art of making a good dressing you will never have store-bought again!
I do love a Greek salad, a nice salty feta cheese is worth a chef's kiss.
I keep green onions growing in my kitchen! Just snip snip snip whenever I want a handful for soups and salads (esp soups, a heap of fresh negi on ramen is divine)
lettuce + thin raw tomato slices + cucumber slices + few raw onion slices + lime juice + salt is my favorite side salad. people need to remember to season their goddamn salads, it is the reason i hated my greens when i was younger my mom never seasoned them.
What if my salids right now are only tomatos?
Do you have saws recomendations
Do I need to use the big spoon for the grain?
First salt your tomatoes to season then to taste, then add plenty of sour cream to the tomatoes and mix to incorporate. Add pepper to taste.
Delicious.
If you have them, adding a cucumber to this dish elevates it even further.
Tomatoes are the goat, thinly sliced and seasoned with salt and pepper (add lime/lemon to take it another level) are already a good low calorie sidedish especially for fish.
I understand it may be hard to accept that you have in fact become a lib. It's just part of growing up y'know 😞
I like greek salads. My gf and I do home greek night and always start it off with a greek salad. I like mine with crushed black olives.
When I was a kid I got sent to a juvenile center for kids with emotional troubles (that also for some reason doubled as a senior center? it was strange) but that place was awesome. We had buffet breakfast and lunch and got two P.E periods in a day. Anyways every day for lunch there I would go to the salad bar and fill my bowl with croutons because they were crunchy and good.
Green olives, roasted sunflower seeds, and apples. These are also some good salad ingredients.
tomatoes are a horrible salad addition IMO
onions are good in theory, but in practice all the onions in the last 10 years have become unbearably hot (in a sulfur way)
To me all raw onions pre-added to salads taste like bitter dust.
I unironically don't like unprocessed tomatoes, but I have a sensory processing disorder and cannot swallow an orange if my life depended on it, so I may have controversial food preferences generally.
I have a sensory processing disorder and cannot swallow an orange
Like a whole orange? Or a piece of an orange slice
Piece. The texture makes me gag and closes my throat. Maybe I could try swallowing a whole, unpeeled one. Ahaha
The texture makes me gag and closes my throat
maybe you're allergic
If you are not on any medication or prescriptions, would grapefruit work better instead? It’s more easily to fully peel the internal skin unlike an orange.
I have never tried. I'm worried about money waste. I literally had local anesthesia surgeries where the anesthesia didn't work which were less traumatic than trying to swallow a piece of orange. Maybe I should try. Thanks for the suggestion.
If you’re not on any medication (grapefruit has chemical compounds that can render a lot of medications useless due to how they unintentionally affect your liver), then grapefruit is extremely economical as it lasts a long time, you can break the portions of a single one over multiple days, it’s delicious, and you can fully peel them.
Hopefully this can help!
I just had my first grapefruit. It's so revolutionary! You were indeed correct about how it can be actually completely peeled which allowed me to swallow it. :D Is there anything else which can be peeled as much? My grapefruit wasn't very economical. it cost 1 euro and I ate the entire thing immediately. :|
I’m so happy you liked it! Grapefruit really are amazing!
That is a bit of a steep price though, the ones around me are usually around 1USD, which is something I bite the bullet on because they are an invaluable part of my diet and they are extremely healthy.
Sadly I cannot think of another citrus that can be peeled like that other then lemons, which ironically I do eat like grapefruit, but only because I have a tree in my yard and the lemons are incredibly sweet and not bitter because I let them fully ripen.
If I think of anything I’ll message you!
Thanks. Maybe I'll try eating a lemon. Do the green lemons also work?
Please do not eat store bought lemons raw. You will destroy your enamel as they are not fully developed and the citric acid within them is to concentrated to safely consume like oranges. Plus it will be really bitter.
Same goes with limes. Plus limes are mostly used for garnish in drinks and food.
Easy to peel, but if you don’t like the skin on oranges then they might not be the best choice. It is possible to fully peel them, but they are tiny so the reward to time ratio isn’t extremely great, and it might be a bit hard.
Worth a shot at least!
I highly recommend that you get a seedless variety. Tangerines or mandarin oranges with seeds are hellish to me.
Thank you. I need the full peel. Maybe grapefruits is all I'll get. Still, a huge progress. :3
Grapefruits are a good start! I’m really happy you like them! Definitely one of my favorite fruit.
It might help with the cost, and I find it makes them taste even better, but when you peel the grapefruit save half of it in a small bowl for later and leave it to chill in the fridge. After an hour or two, it should be completely chilled and should have a really interesting “bite” to its flavor. You should be able to keep it in the fridge up to a day, but the sooner you eat it the better of course, if you leave it to long while it’s peeled it’ll get a little rubbery.
When I was still working in a kitchen, one of new found snacks was a salad with romaine lettuce, free protein from the naked & brined chicken tenders which I could sear and cut up, a bit of parmesan cheese, and a slight serving of aioli sauce was so good.
I like green goddess dressing ideally on endive with those little baby tomatoes in all the different colors. Its one of my splurge food items i'd eat way more if I could along with kelp salad.
I don't like raw tomatoes either. It was a wonderful discovery when I first made salads that you don't need them. Salads are great, especially in the summer.
, trying to convince us to become libs.
