If someone offers to bring a salad

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.... how many would you assume that salad will serve?

Having a dinnner party of 10. Friend is bringing 'a green salad', as a side for a pasta main. Should I make a second salad or assume one salad will be enough?

TIA for advice.

Oh, RedElephants, you absolutely MUST watch those three series. They'll pass in a flash and you'll be like many of us, watching them all again at least one a year month.

We're tragic and watch all the episodes of G and S every Christmas. Love it (and salad).

Sorry to derail your thread OP. A good salad is lush.

I would make a different type of salad. It's always nice to have a couple of salads anyway.

I hope you defined what you meant by “salad”, OP.
I still chuckle about the morbidly obese patient I had in my operating theatre, years ago. He said he was dealing with his weight, and had even eaten a salad the day before.
I was impressed, until my nurse asked him what was in his salad.
“A pork pie. And a tomato!”, he replied proudly.
Only in Scotland... !

Thank you so much for making me LOL after a challenging day. I bloody love Doris.

Back to the thread, if you're doing a tomato salad also add a tiny scattering of sugar. Just the smallest amount makes a huge difference along with the salt and pepper.

Oh I do MN 😄! Thanks so much for the very useful replies and the Gavin etc references, which I've also just googled. Now I know what to do with my salad and with my free time.

Thanks again !

I also agree that bringing a bog standard green salad is a bit of a cop out. If someone has offered to bring a dish, you’d hope it was to save you some effort - it takes no effort to open a bag of leaves and chuck it in a bowl even if there’s a brilliant dressing to go with it!! You could do that yourself in seconds.

I never let people bring things when I'm catering as I don't trust them - either to make enough or to make something nice. Bit late for you now though

Those saying they would take a fancier salad do you enquire what the main is? Because I think serving a blue cheese pasta salad alongside macaroni cheese for example would be plain weird.

“People don’t want salad, they want pies and pasties, this cheap crap”

@AtleastitsnotMonday i’d just be happy there was something else that was nice to eat if someone had invited me round for dinner and it turned out to be bloody macaroni cheese!

That clip is very funny.

I'm a crap cook and even I'd be ashamed to bring a green salad. Bags of leaves in a bowl. It's not exactly Ottolenghi is it?!

It really annoys me when people insist on bringing something with them if I’m cooking for them. I actually find the implication that I’ve bitten off more than I can chew quite patronising and insulting.

BoswellsBollocks,

you are right. I think most salads are the last to be eaten. People might put a few leaves on their plate to make it seem like they are healthy eaters, then devour all the rest of the really tasty ruinous stuff. Because it is NICE to eat!

Who wants to be a human rabbit.

Just my experience.

Who wants to eat rabbit food at a party FGS.

A green salad to me would be a couple of different lettuces, spring onions,cucumber, green peppers, mint, and balsamic dressing. So maybe do a tomato and mozzarella salad to go with it.

I would much rather have the salad than pies and pasties

Just ask your friend OP?

Ask her what salad she is doing and is it enough for 10 people?