The first time I had a version of this salad it was at a steakhouse, and it's not so creative name was Steakhouse Salad so I guess that's what this is. I've made mine into a dinner salad, by adding leftover grilled chicken but it's delicious without it too. I must I like this flavor combination since it's similar to a cobb salad.The original version was made with a wedge of head lettuce and drizzled with ranch dressing with blue cheese crumbles and bacon bits, as well as a few artistically arranged cucumbers, tomatoes, and red onion slivers. The wedge of lettuce is pretty, but can be hard to cut and eat, especially if you've got your nice "going out" clothes on and are a messy eater like me. Since head lettuce doesn't have that many nutrients I don't use it. I also add more veggies instead of using them as a garnish.
Ingredients:
Torn lettuce, I used red leaf lettuce
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Bacon
Blue Cheese Crumbles
Cooked Chicken
Ranch Dressing, I make mine with a Hidden Valley dressing packet.
Directions:
Place lettuce on plate and layer remaining ingredients. Pour dressing on top and enjoy!
Katie at A Listmaker's Life has a weekly feature during the warm weather called Saturday Salads that I'm adding this too. I ♥ salads, so if you've got one please link it up so we can all get some new recipe ideas!
This has been added to a few recipe blog parties: Tasty Tuesday at Balancing Beauty and Bedlam, Tempt My Tummy Tuesday at Blessed with Grace, and Kitchen Tip Tuesday at Tammy's Recipes.
That looks SO delish! I'd love to have that plate in front of me right now!! Thanks for linking to Saturday Salads.
ReplyDeleteThat looks yummy. I love salads too, but the boring kind.
ReplyDeleteThat looks yummy. I love the blue cheese crumbles. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by and leaving me a comment. *smiles*
ReplyDeleteThanks...We love all the neat personalized things like that from PB.
The lemon cake was good. It was a little too lemony for me. If I were to make it again, I would not do both the lemon cake and lemon pudding. I would buy just a yellow cake mix instead.
It's so versatile...I started thinking chocolate cake, with chocolate pudding and so on!
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the YUMMY post.
Looks soooo good! Hidden Valley Ranch packets are the way to go. I can't do it through the bottle. Good choice!
ReplyDeleteThis does look yummy! I love a good salad in the Summer time : ). And the Spring time : ) And the fall time... yadda yadda yadda!
ReplyDeleteNow that is the kind of salad that I LOVE! Thanks for the idea. Thanks for sharing the recipe and linking up to TMTT.
ReplyDeleteThat salad looks wonderful!
ReplyDeleteYUM! I love a good salad and am always looking for new styles. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, nice blog design. ;)
love great salads for spring/summer
ReplyDeleteThis looks yummy!! I make one with shoestring potatoes.. I will have to remember to post a recipe soon! :)
ReplyDeleteOh! I had a salad just like this today. So good!
ReplyDeleteI would love this, for some reason I really like chicken and bleu cheese!
ReplyDeleteMy hubby just ordered a salad at a restaurant that looked just like this...but I am sure we didn't pay the same, but I didn't have to make it for once...hee hee :) Thanks for linking it up to Tasty Tuesday.
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