3 posts tagged “salad”
This disaster really ranks way up there. I mean, salad Niçoise -- I had such high hopes... It sounded so refined and classy. Hell, I even learned how to pronounce "Niçoise." And it ended up looking like something a hungry bear might throw up after raiding a restaurant dumpster. It tasted fine, but man, this just looks like garbage... I feel queasy just looking at this mess, and knowing I ate it.
Some dishes, you have to pay as much attention to the plating and the presentation, as you do to actually cooking it.
Some dishes, you have to pay as much attention to the plating and the presentation, as you do to actually cooking it.
Soup of potato, carrot and leek. A salad with garlic-rosemary bread. Very nice on hot and cold days. I tried making some clever and artistic yin-yang teardrops with some cream, but that didn't work out. I should have tried to make a smiley face instead.
Apparently, you're not supposed to try create the actual shape when you drop cream in a soup -- you should just drop a blob in and then manipulate it with a toothpick or something sharp. Ah, you live and learn!
Apparently, you're not supposed to try create the actual shape when you drop cream in a soup -- you should just drop a blob in and then manipulate it with a toothpick or something sharp. Ah, you live and learn!
There are certain dishes that I'll order in restaurants, but will never make at home (and vice versa). This salad is a good example of this. A restaurant kitchen will have certain foodstuffs ready for assembly*, but in a home kitchen, if you want to make a Cobb salad, you've gotta boil and peel your eggs, fry up the bacon, cook the chicken -- and all of a sudden, what seemed like a simple salad ends up being quite the production...
I totally didn't think this one through... I figured it'd be a breeze. Just a bunch of lettuce, avocado, hardboiled eggs, tomatoes, chicken and bacon, all nicely lined up in a big trough-like bowl -- lots of different tastes, colors and textures, very filling, right? But when I realized I had to cook all that stuff before I could get going, I totally lost track of things, and ended up leaving out what I personally think is almost the most important part of a Cobb salad -- the freakin' blue cheese! There are just certain things that aren't worth cooking at home, you know?
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* In fact, according to his daughter, the way Robert H. Cobb invented the salad was simply by raiding the fridge for anything edible...
I totally didn't think this one through... I figured it'd be a breeze. Just a bunch of lettuce, avocado, hardboiled eggs, tomatoes, chicken and bacon, all nicely lined up in a big trough-like bowl -- lots of different tastes, colors and textures, very filling, right? But when I realized I had to cook all that stuff before I could get going, I totally lost track of things, and ended up leaving out what I personally think is almost the most important part of a Cobb salad -- the freakin' blue cheese! There are just certain things that aren't worth cooking at home, you know?
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* In fact, according to his daughter, the way Robert H. Cobb invented the salad was simply by raiding the fridge for anything edible...
