How Do You Make A Great Salad?
Nutritionists love people who eat a lot of salad but most salads we eat are pretty uninteresting. A salad can be a pile of wilting lettuce with one tomato and two slices of cucumber adorned by half a dozen rock-hard croutons or it can be an experience in itself. Whether you’re just making a dinner salad or a salad to serve as an entree, it’s easy to put together a plate that looks as if you had help from the professionals if follow a few simple tips. Step 1 Start with fresh ingredients. Use more than one kind of greens. Those tempting bags of lettuce have suffered a bout of bacteria recently but if you select only those that you can see look fresh and perky, you shouldn’t be afraid to try them. If you’re doing salad for a crowd, go ahead and buy fresh bunches of red leaf and baby Boston bib lettuce. Whatever greens you choose, wash them well and wrap them in damp dish towels in the fridge to re-hydrate them before putting your salad together. Try to buy fresh rather than packaged whene
