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Salad with Carbonara

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skips22 · 27/02/2023 21:37

Tonight we had Carbonara from Gousto and they send ingredients for a side salad. Who the fuck has salad with carbonara? My DH wasn't as outraged as I am 😂

YABU - salad with Carbonara is normal
YANBU - it's weird!!

OP posts:
Doingmybest12 · 27/02/2023 22:37

Well every day is a school day. I love hot and cold together and would have it on the same plate. Didn't realise I was breaking rules.

Ragwort · 27/02/2023 22:38

How else do you get a balanced meal?

Shock ... I quite frequently eat an unbalanced meal Grin ... maybe have a few chocolates afterwards

IHaveaSetOfVeryParticularSkills · 27/02/2023 22:59

But was it a masive salad? 😁

Not for me. At all. Even the thought run cold through my spine. And I love salads.

Starter, yes, with little break, then the pasta.

GlitteryUnicornSparkles · 27/02/2023 23:00

YANBU

spuddel · 27/02/2023 23:01

I always have a salad with pasta, in a separate bowl.

Nellodee · 27/02/2023 23:04

Mil serves salad with her roast dinners. Now that’s weird.

FabFitFifties · 27/02/2023 23:05

I like salad with all pasta meals. Same plate but not mixed obviously. Some salad and some pasta on the fork.

BrigitteBond · 27/02/2023 23:06

Nellodee · 27/02/2023 23:04

Mil serves salad with her roast dinners. Now that’s weird.

🤣

On a level with people who eat a Sunday roast outside a pub in July.

RampantIvy · 27/02/2023 23:07

The only thing with carbonara is garlic bread. Anything else is an insult to taste buds

I would find that too stodgy.

BrigitteBond · 27/02/2023 23:10

FabFitFifties · 27/02/2023 23:05

I like salad with all pasta meals. Same plate but not mixed obviously. Some salad and some pasta on the fork.

I like a spinach/rocket/maybe parsley salad with the pasta-based-meal served in top. So you get the salad in various stages of 'wilted'.

poetryandwine · 27/02/2023 23:12

Salad with - not before or after - roast chicken is traditional French country fsre, and delicious. Elizabeth David has written eloquently about this.

Brrrrrrrrrrrr · 27/02/2023 23:12

This is very rough so don’t judge but I do enjoy lasagne, French fries and coleslaw. Absolutely glorious.

BrigitteBond · 27/02/2023 23:17

poetryandwine · 27/02/2023 23:12

Salad with - not before or after - roast chicken is traditional French country fsre, and delicious. Elizabeth David has written eloquently about this.

Presumably not with Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, gravy, and stuffing though?

Hot meat with salad is always lovely. Iceberg lettuce with a full English roast dinner is a bit odd though.

poetryandwine · 27/02/2023 23:23

True, @BrigitteBond . Iceberg lettuce is not the French idea of salad and I daresay it wasn’t Elizabeth David’s either. ED also preferred the French method of serving a couple of simple, lighter side dishes with a roast rather than the British method of ‘all the trimmings’.

Gymnopedie · 27/02/2023 23:58

I love salad, even if it's only yer basic lettuce, cucumber and tomato. I'll eat it (on the same plate) with anything up to and including beef casserole. The only things I draw the line at are a roast dinner, and fish and chips if the fish is battered.
Salad and carbonara? Bring it on.

Thepossibility · 28/02/2023 00:19

I love a crunchy tangy salad with any pasta. It's all a bit samey without it. I'm usually too lazy to make it though.

Rosio · 28/02/2023 00:35

I never had salad, I hate tomatoes, peppers and cucumber and most lettuce so I just think what's the point

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skips22 · 28/02/2023 01:41

Oooh quite a mixed bag (of salad ha!)

Garlic bread is definitely a good side in my opinion, however carbs could be the reason I can't shift this baby weight so maybe I should be having just the salad 😂

Although I wouldn't have it, salad with lasagne seems normal but there is just something about having it with carbonara that feels all sorts of wrong!

By the way, I did actually eat it as I know how lucky I am to be the proud owner of tomatoes in this mad world 😂 I just didn't like it...

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ImustLearn2Cook · 28/02/2023 01:48

Before everything became so massively expensive (I am in Australia but I think the UK has had a huge rise in the cost of living too) I used to like having a portion of carbonara with steak and steamed vegetables. Yum.

I like salad so I would like that too but probably in the warmer months.

MrsClatterbuck · 28/02/2023 03:17

I love salad and coleslaw with lasagne but wouldn't dream of it with any other pasta dish including Carbonara

doadeer · 28/02/2023 03:31

I love a side salad with carbonara, it's so rich you need it. But definately on a side plate

poppetposieandfun · 28/02/2023 04:17

We always have salad with pasta!

RebeccaCloud9 · 28/02/2023 05:14

I love a side salad with a carbonara.

sashh · 28/02/2023 06:05

It's a side salad, you don't put it on the same plate.

MiddleParking · 28/02/2023 06:14

We have spinach straight out of the bag with my carbonara. On the same plate at the same time! I have it with pizza too. I love uncooked spinach.

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