Salad ideas for dh to take to work, and yes I will be making them and no I don't want a commentary on my marriage - it's lasted longer than yours (maybe)

[Dumbledoresgirl]

Sorry about title - a joke from another thread.

Seriously, I am looking for salad ideas for dh to take to work. Currently, I do a mean rice salad, a Greek salad (but that one lacks carbs so wondering if there is anything I can do about that?) and a sort of salad nicoise.

How could I ring the changes?

Oh, and I know this is going to sound totally ridiculous, but I have tons and tos of lettuce growing in the garden but few salads that can take the bouncing around of a sandwich box contain lettuce. Do you know any that will?

Thanks.

Dh loves Jamie's Oliver's chorizo & tomato salad. I either throw some boiled new potatoes in it for carbs or just send it with a couple of buttered slices of thick tiger bread.

recipe here plus some other good salad recipes

Cook 2 anchovy fillets in olive oil until they've almost dissolved, add 2 very finely sliced shallots and 1 finely chopped garlic clove and sweat until soft. Add onion, pepper, aubergine and courgette strips, and some capers, stir in thyme, sugar and white wine vinegar, then some blanched carrots and celery, cook for 5 mins, then stir in good thick chunks of bread and a little oil. Its wonderful.

oooh! Some fab salads here.

New potatoes, dressed while hot with mustardy vinaigrette (even better made with lemon instead of vinegar) then tossed with broad beans, bacon, pine nuts and mint and served with some cos or gem lettuce.

DP's invention, this one - for protein: tin of sardines, tin of whatever beans (kidney, flagolet, butter beans etc) chopped beetroot, cucumber/celery/apple, grated carrot, nuts and seeds, balsamic dressing. Really filling without making you drowsy.

lol @ your thread title.

And get your dh to look into it fgs

Tabbouleh.

Lots of recipes for this, I make it with bulghur wheat, lemon or lime juice, lots of olive oil, salt, garlic, mint, lots of chopped flatleaf parsley, chopped cherry tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, spring onions black olives and crumbled feta. deLISH.
Ottolenghi version

Meant to add, DH loves this, and we have been married 17 years [hwink]

Oh and Panzanella - yummy and good for using up stale bread

Jamie Oliver recipe here

, not [hwink] dammit

oooo Annunziata - that sounds gorgeous

It is, Taffeta. (Credit must go to MIL though!) It is a version of the panzanella JulesJules posted.

marks place for DH who has just started Weight Watchers.

hello!!
I do a mean chickpea salad (from Jamie O) which is yummy - and has protein obviously but you could add some new pots as well which would make it a complete meal

Jamie's chickpea salad

Well, I've not even been married a year yet so I hope it's ok to comment!

DH makes a really good chicken/ chicken and bacon salad that is nice with lots of lettuce - you want to make it when the oven is already on. Pop a chicken breast into an oven dish with whatever woody herbs you like (bay, rosemary, thyme, oregano) and splash it with oil and lots of lemon juice or ciderand cover with foil. Then if you can be arsed fry up the bacon and mix that and the cut-up with lettuce and tomato and cucumber, and some pasta or new potatoes if he wants carbs. The liquid around the chicken should be more than enough to dress it. Sounds like a faff but obviously it isn't if you're already making something in the oven.

LRD, it's fine to post no matter how long you have been with your partner/husband I only posted what I did as a joke as some of us had noticed on another thread that a woman who asked for recipes earlier to make for her husband was laughed at and told to get her husband to do his own cooking.

My dh doesn't cook and we live what is popularly called round here a 1950s lifestyle, but as AMumInScotland so rightly said earlier, if it suits us, stuff those who disapprove!

Anyway, loads of great ideas here, thanks. I will give some a go, and hope others of you try something new too.

Well, salad is very important to the health of a marriage, so I hear.

We were talking about Nigella's mahogany salad trousers on another wedding thread this morning - perhaps that is what more modern wives wear to show their dominance?

I make salad for my DH at times. I have not yet handed in my shiny shiny feminist badge.

Ooh, marking my place for ideas.

I did make a pasta salad for the whole family's lunches a couple of weeks ago (including dh, together for 15 years, married for 5 ). I just mixed cooked & cooled pasta with diced cucumber, halved cherry toms, black olives, sweetcorn, diced mattessons smoked sausage, chopped mint and basil with a basil mayo dressing made by mixing hellmans mayo, some milk to loosen and a squirt of squeezy basil. Was enjoyed by all.

Another fave is chicken, bacon, artichoke hearts (jarred stuff from sainsburys) & new pots with a vinaigrette.

Left over roast veg finely chopped and stirred through some couscous made up with some veg stock or tomato paste in the water.

This Tabouleh recipe is great. Simple, tasty and healthy. Lasts well if you're taking it to work.

www.fromthelarder.com/?p=366

I love couscous, cubes of cooked pumpkin, chunks of feta and baby spinach leaves.

Frittata is our standby dinner for busy nights and the leftovers are delicious cold the next day. Indeed I made one last night - chuck a couple of boiled potatoes (chopped into quite big chunks), frozen spinach, a tin of sweetcorn, cooked bacon, and a load of mushrooms into a pot that can go from hob to oven. Beat about seven or eight eggs with a bit of milk, pour over the rest of the ingredients, cook slowly on the hob until all but about the top centimetre is set, then transfer to oven to finish off.

Baby spinach with beetroot and crumbled goats cheese
Salad leaves with dried cranberries, crumbled blue cheese and sunflower seeds
Salad leaves with lentils (from a tin), roast peppers (from a jar) and crumbled goats cheese

there is a restaurant in London called Leon, they do delicious crunchy salads and interesting combos, have a google. Allegra McEvedy has written a few books with recipes for the food from the restaurants, as well as lots of other interesting suggestions. Worth checking out for the kind of salads you are looking for.