Top salad recipes please!

[McDreamy]

Love eating salads but I have to confess mine can be a little ...........boring/predictable/dull? Take your pick

So what is your fav/fool proof/best/top salad recipe?

I love a good old chicken, avocado and bacon melange on mixed leaves with a french dressing but for something really special I think this is hard to beat if you've got a bit of time.

parma ham, goats cheese, walnuts, mixed leaves, cherry toms and lots of balsamic vinegar.

Thai beef salad

Sear a piece of steak (I like sirloin) to medium rare and put aside to cool then slice into relatively fine chunks (you don't need a lot - one 200g steak easily does DH and I for this recipe).
Put rice noodles in hot water to soften for five minutes then drain and rinse in cold water to cool.

Assemble the main salad:
Lettuce, cucumber cut in chunks, sliced spring onions and sliced red onions. Toss these incredients with the noodles.

Make dressing:
Chop a small bunch of coriander, a few leaves of mint, and one chilli (depending on how much eat you can take). In a bowl, put the herbs and chilli and 4 tablespoons of soy sauce and the juice of two limes (you can up the soy/lime juice depending on how much sauce you like. Roughly two tablespoons of soy sauce to one lime tends to be about the right ratio).

Just before serving place the meat on top of the salad and pour over the sauce. Sprinkle sesame seeds over the top, and some finely sliced red chilli adds a lovely bit of colour.

I also like a butternut and goats cheese salad:

Roast chunks of butternut in olive oil with a bit of rosemary and garlic (you can add chilli if you want). Once cooled, toss the butternut with toasted pine nuts and goats cheese chunks (or feta cheese) and drizzle with more olive oil if needbe. I sometimes also add a few baby spinach leaves.

Stilton, ripe pear, walnuts and spinach leaves dressed with a mixture of sesame oil, white wine vinegar and honey.

I served this at a BBQ and it was commented on numerous times (and it all disappeared very quickly!)

There was a great salad thread on here just a couple of weeks ago, with some fantastic suggestions - here

A very basic but very tasty simple salad:

Chop about 3 fresh tomatoes in to small cubes and place in a bowl. Chop up a red onion in to very small pieces and add to bowl. Cut up some yellow and green pepper in to same size as the onion and place in bowl. Add 1 tb of fresh lime salt and black pepper to taste. Chop up a handful of fresh coriander and mix in to bowl. The colous will look amazing..mmm..tasty... This can also be made in to a sause to accompany meat dishes by adding tomatoe ketchup

This salad is divine allrecipes.com//Recipe/hearts-of-palm-and-spinach-salad/Detail.aspx

Another spinach salad I like to make is spinach and steak salad. I don't know what the exact measurements are for ingredients, but I combine spinach leaves, sugar snaps (blanched), red pepper and anything else crunchy I have in the fridge. I cook and slice a thin steak or I use shredded leftover chicken. For the dressing, I use sesame oil, olive oil, fresh grated ginger, juice and zest of 1 or 2 limes, honey or brown sugar, sometimes a crushed clove of garlic and a bit of salt and pepper. Yum.

A nice leaf salad - crunchy lettuce, diced chicken, diced mango, peanuts, diced peppers, with a peanut and honey dressing (peanut butter, sesame oil, honey, lime, sweet chilli sauce).