Monday, July 25, 2011

Bread Salad!


All of my traveling and lazing around the house this summer is starting to catch up with my health and my hips.  I decided to make a concentrated effort to ingest only salad at lunch these past couple weeks before I jet set off on another adventure with some truly amazing and exotic food. 

I spent an hour chopping, and shredding, and dicing the various components of a salad.  As I ate that salad throughout the week, I ate less and less.  I would do my best to eat what I could, but about halfway through it would become unbearable to eat another bite.  I hate salads.  Or…I hated salads until I tried this Greek Panzanella by Ina Garten.  Thank you Barefoot Contessa (and thanks to my mid-western friend that shared her Barefoot Contessa cookbooks with me)!  And panzanella being a “bread salad”, this salad is all about the sautéed bread…or in reality-croutons!  I should have known that was what I needed to find in a salad to be happy eating it.  Thank goodness for croutons.




What's in your favorite salad?

2 comments:

  1. You need to try Goddess dressing at Trader Joes - it makes salads amazing. I also like banana peppers and raisins in mine, sweet potatoes are good too. I've been looking for lunch ideas, maybe I'll try this salad! Interesting it doesn't have any greens?

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  2. No greens of any kind. It's all the best parts of a salad!

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