Nekkid again. ;)
Dressed and tossed.
This delicious monstrosity features nearly everything a salad could ever need: lettuce, baby spinach, red and yellow bell peppers, baby carrots, broccoli, mushrooms, red onion, sunflower seeds, a dollop of hummus on the side, and the thing that makes any salad something to moan about: artichoke hearts. And lots of them. The whole thing was crowned by balsamic vinegar and enjoyed with two organic flatbread crackers (of which one is pictured). Yum! Seriously, this thing must have weighed two pounds. I did prefer this combination of salad toppings more when I was still using the Italian dressing, but it contains a milk product (I assume parmesan cheese), so I now opt for the balsamic, which is good, but it lacks some bite. I, however, lacked no bites today and instead ate every bit of this baby I could scrape from the plastic container. Scrumptious!
I did not have time to prepare a lunch today because, between work and rehearsal, I scarfed down the mock chicken salad sandwich I posted yesterday and made a tangy fruit salad. And guess what was my teatime snack today . . . yep!
This time, the mixture is two Granny Smith apples, a container of fresh pineapple (chopped by Whole Foods), a pint of strawberries, slightly more than half a bag of green grapes, and the juices of half a large lemon and a whole small lime. I like my fruit salad a bit sour, as you can probably tell, and I never add sweetener. Fruit is naturally sweet; I never understood the need to top a mix like this with sugar or honey.
So another successful day in my Salad Challenge. Did you participate today?
3 comments:
This is my kind of food! Awesome salad, I like hummus on my salad too, and you can never go wrong with fruit.:)
when i read about your challenge i thought about this little video. I was thinking it may help if you're missing anything like this dressing.
and maybe you could make an italian like dressing with nutritional yeast instead of the cheese?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdl0ffxD9mQ
YUM! You are making me so hungry right now, and I JUST ate! The Jason's Deli salad is making me think I may need to go there for dinner tonight, because I'm not sure if I can go another day without all those yummy veggies and toppings you described.
I've never understood the need to sweeten fruit either. Like people who toss spoonfuls of sugar on top of strawberries? They're STRAWBERRIES! They're amazing already, why would you want to do that?
Post a Comment