"Massive salad"

Apple. Roquefort. Walnuts. Cherry toms. Cucumber. Green leaves. Croutons.

Lettuce. Cherry toms. Cucumber. Veggie bacon bits. Soft boiled egg over it all. Croutons.

I like greek salad too.

Ooh yes to Russian salad! With grated boiled egg or tinned tuna or whole marinated anchovies on top.

I LOVE cobb style salads. They are responsible for at least 30kg of my weight😂

For me, if it's not eaten out of a mixing bowl, it's not a massive salad!

Byron cobb salad - yum,

Todays: lettuce and spinach, cucumber, tomatoes, avocado, asparagus, chicken, figs and goats cheese with walnuts. It was very nice.

It really is.
I think Danish blue is best for blue cheese dressing, but obviously use your favourite, roquefort is pretty good too, I think it needs the sharpness.
The parmesan is just to bring out the cheese flavour, Im a huge cheese fan!
A few drops of balsamic are good if you use a more mellow blue cheese.

@IHaveBrilloHair

Thanks so much! That sounds bloody delicious.

Its utterly amazing as a dressing for pasta salad with smoked bacon, halved baby plum tomatoes and black olives.
Also roast beef and caramelised onion baguettes.

Of course.
Its completely made up, but based on other recipes I've seen, and I've tweaked a bit, quantities aren't necessarily specific either, but this is generally what I like.

Around a third of a standard piece of Danish blue cheese
A teaspoon or grated parmesan
Two finely sliced spring onions
Juice of quarter of a lemon
A shake of Worcester sauce
A dessert spoon of mayo
A dessert spoon of sour cream
Good few grinds of black pepper

Chuck it all in a mini chopper/blender, or if you don't have one, mix and thoroughly as you can to get a smoothish texture.
Add water to thin slightly, I like it to be about the consistency of double cream.
Taste, and add extra of any/all ingredients until it's right for you.
I don't use salt as it's full of salty ingredients but obvs you can.
eat with spoon

Oh... a proper salad thread, I'm so impressed with some of these. I'm going to read through it properly now with a pen and paper to take notes.

I'm particularly interested in the 'white salad', aka Russian salad as we make this for Christmas Eve (along with a million other things) but it's been re-named as Italian salad for some inexplicable reason.

Our family's Italian salad has (everything in tiny cubes) - onions, gherkins, sliced ham, tinned carrots, boiled potatoes, tinned peas - maggi dressing/mustard/hot water - and shitloads of mayonnaise.

It gets mixed in a storage box, it's the most enormous salad!

@IHaveBrilloHair

Would you be willing to share the recipe on here? I would love to make my own.

I adore blue cheese dressing, I make my own and it's amazing.

of and grated cheese. All the grated cheese.

My mums idea of a massive salad was lettuce and tomato with a whole carton of potato salad, a carton or coleslaw, shit load of pasta, eggs and sometimes a jacket potato on the side. Then she would moan that she couldn’t lose weight and that she was “only eating salads.”

@cakewench

I’m with you on the dressing. I always have full fat Caesar or blue cheese. I find my salads come out at around 600 calories, there’s room for cheese, avocado and dressing because there’s no bread and not much, if any meat.

OP your comment about Secret Eaters reminded me of the one that made an impression on me. A lady who “ate salad all the time!” And it transpired that she was using an amazing amount of tahini on it. Like I forget just how much but I was in awe and imagined that it tasted amazing (probably because it was 1k+ calories )

I have a massive salad pretty much every day. What goes in it depends on whether or not I’m trying to lose weight. I don’t see salad as a weight loss food necessarily; as many people have pointed out, they can be quite calorific. However, they’re easy to convert to something lower calorie. Lower calorie ones tend to be: lean meat (usually chicken I’ve marinated and roasted) or hard boiled egg, maybe 40gr hummus, a measured amount of vinaigrette, various leaves and veg. Higher calorie one might have cheese as well, or seeds, bacon, etc. I love salad.

Also you’ve got to have a nice dressing, I am always disappointed when a salad in this country is served with nothing, just leaves. No wonder so many people don’t like salad.

catinboots21 Your Greek tomato salad sounds delicious.

YES!!!

With a rare rib eye on the side...

@IHaveBrilloHair

‘I love a properly made caeser salad with anchovies and good croutons plus top quality parmesan.’

Absolutely! I want that for my dinner now.

I love a properly made caeser salad with anchovies and good croutons plus top quality parmesan

I’m partial to a watermelon and feta salad or chicken and grilled peach. I just make enough for 6 people and eat the whole thing

A salad can be massive IMO , a place I go to does a ham salad and I can never eat more than half of it so I ask for a box to take home.
A cobb salad on holiday is similar , think it’s perception that salad is just a bunch of lettuce when infact it can have a lot of protein which is filling