1) Beet salad. It is an actual vegetable that is good for you, especially liver function. It tastes like desert.
2) Chicken. Chicken salad is the best sandwich on a hot summer day. It is the right mix of protien, oil dressing, and sweet pickle flavor to fill and cool at the same time.
3) macaroni- Mac salad is a top flight side dish. It is bad for you, taste great, and compliments cold cuts, burgers, and bbq
4) potato- see macaroni, except the starch is slightly better for you.
5) fruit- pineapples, strawberry, oranges, and cantaloupes. Money choice.
6) tuna- mix has to max out sweet pickle juice, but this chicken salad substitute can sustain you in desperate times.
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Clearly your football knowledge does not extend to salad rankings. Sorry
Dunno what it's called, but heirloom tomatoes, cucumber and sweet onion. It goes with anything.
...In vinegar, Yummm!
We call it summer salad.
From Wikipedia: "A salad is a dish consisting of small pieces of food, which may be mixed with a sauce or salad dressing. Salads can incorporate a variety of foods including vegetables, fruits, cheese, cooked meat, eggs, grains and nuts."
On that basis, technically -- technically -- isn't pie just a salad with a crust? A self-contained salad (with a container you can eat!), if you will. And I will.
Crust is grains, yo.
You're really disrespecting Watergate Salad here
Any salad with marshmallows is okay with me.
To be honest, I can't argue with any of this, besides the beet salad. And that's only because I've never had it.
Caprese - All other salads are inferior.
What he said.
I stole an idea from a place and developed a caprese hamburger.
Chop lots of basil and mix it into ground chuck. Let it sit for a couple hours.
Make it into patties and grill it. After the flip, add a slice of fresh mozzarella.
When done, take it off the grill and add a balsamic vinegar glaze and a real nice slice of tomato then a touch of salt on top of the tomato, it really brings out the tomato flavor.
You'll want to toast the buns to keep them from getting soggy.
And now I am reminded I was going to do this recipe to Tailgating Tech, which reminds me I forgot to post anything so far.
Crap, you can tell where my mind is not this year.
Santa Fe salad. It's like a burrito in a salad bowl. Try it with jalapeno ranch.
You have chicken salad, but not egg salad? A true modern day tragedy. Half the chromosomes but twice the taste.
I've never found a good way to give egg salad texture. I usually throw some cashews in chicken salad, but I haven't found anything friendly to the taste of egg salad to give it something other than the mouthfeel of a partially chewed and regurgitated hard boiled egg.
Egg salad is definitely not something you eat for the texture. I just like eggs, mayo, mustard , bacon, garlic, chives, and black pepper. They also happen to go together really well according to my taste buds.
Agreed, but when I want that taste I just whip up a batch of deviled eggs.
I find it impressive that you seem to like deviled eggs but aren't a big fan of egg salad. They could potentially be the same exact thing except you use the egg white as an edible spoon instead of chopping it up and putting it on some bread.
I know. Weird, right? It's all about the presentation and expectation, I think. With a deviled egg, I expect a side dish, and the taste of a gussied up hard boiled egg. With egg salad, it's like "here's a glob of chunky yellow shit on your sandwich.
Also, my experience with egg salad has been a much runnier product that the creamy, savory heaven that is deviled egg filling.
Put sliced green olives with pimentos in it, adds a great flavor to egg salad. My wife does this all the time, its great.
Eggs are made to be hidden away in something else like ice cream, or even to be thrown in self defense.
Cooked eggs by themselves taste and smell horrific.
Back in the day, being forced to eat eggs was my single biggest fear relative to the draft.
That's the way I felt.
My mom would make hard boiled eggs,for the family on drives for vacation.
The stench in the car would make me retch.
Then I joined the Navy and it was eat eggs or starve.
Hot sauce became my friend. Now I eat eggs but only scrambled or omelette.
You've not had eggs done well then
Most of the "food" salads are off the board for me (chicken salad, potato salad, etc) because I hate mayonnaise.
#mustardistheonlyrealcondiment.
Jk. But mayo disgusts me. Can't even smell the stuff without the urge to hurl.
YAIS. There is no mayo in my egg salad (all mustard), no mayo in my cole slaw (vinegar sauce). We don't even keep mayo in the house.
Same here. I hate white creamy substances (Mayo, ranch, thousand island). I love Italian food but hate Alfredo sauce.
However, my Mom used to make Tuna salad with no mayo. Relish, mustard,and something else that I have never found out what it was. After she passed I asked my Dad and he didn't know either, but it was good. Truly a "Secret Sauce".
If you make your own mayo, you can actually make something edible.
It's just an oil suspended in a water type.
So, do something like olive oil and a mild vinegar (like a sushi vinegar) or wine or chili oil and grape seed oil suspended in a base of beer and mustard powder.
Alton Brown teaches us to make mayo.
You don't have to stick to the crap from a jar.
This is easily the most informative thing I have ever seen about Mayo. I still don't like Mayo, but have a leg.
Thank you, I do not like that crap from a jar but, I make a real good chili oil mayo that is good on homemade grilled chicken breast sandwiches and a horseradish mustard mayo that is great on beef and pork sammiches.
I'd certainly give either of those a fair try.
Agreed, and leg for Alton Brown.
However, if you are going to the trouble of making your own condiments, aioli is the only proper choice. Aioli >> mayo.
I like the taste of aoili much more than regular mayo but, aioli is actually incredibly close to and sometimes indistinguishable from mayo.
It can be just seasoned olive oil and garlic but, very commonly an emulsifier is added and it looks more like common mayo.
Part of the importance of the emulsifier is to tighten the "sauce" in order to add to bread in order to keep it from getting soggy from the juices o the sammich.
I actually like my aioli with horseradish added.
If it turns out indistinguishable from mayo, you shorted the garlic big time.
Horseradish aioli sounds balls-out amazing.
No, I make a mayo with that much garlic.
Maiolinaise.
Ok, that is definitely something I can get behind.
You know how else it is good?
Roast about 1/3 of the garlic. so, like 1 roasted bulb and 2 non-roasted.
Your kitchen will smell perfect.
Local Chef Kevin Gillespie makes Mayo with Bacon Drippings. Baconase he calls it- I've got a recipe packed up somewhere and will try to post it. Wicked good shit
Corn and black bean salad. Do recommend.
oh man. My wife made some of that with some avocado ranch dressing. mmmmmmm
The depravity and indecency of the human species will never again reach the depths that were required to spawn mayonnaise. It's inclusion in a salad, or anything intended for ingestion for that matter, is an abomination.
Other than that, it's a pretty solid list.
My family's favorite - Snicker Salad: Apples, Snickers pieces, Cool Whip. Is it healthy? Of course it is. It's a salad.
Also,
tacochimichanga salad.Cobb is the best of the real salads. Avocado, bacon, blue cheese...
Also, if anyone is looking for a way to avoid the calorie bomb of salad dressing, salsa verde is excellent as a dressing. Just make sure it's tomatillo based, there's some shitty stuff out there they make from green bell peppers, which should be purged from the earth along with mayonnaise.
Couldn't agree more.. no doubt Cobb is the best salad.. BACON AND EGGS AND AVOCADO!!! Really can't go wrong!
The fact that Sweet Green stop selling the Avacobbo is a travesty.
For a second there I thought I'd wandered over to ESPN.com in the off season...
If it we truly an offseason E$PN list, it'd have a hackneyed pairing of each salad type with coaches for each conference.
As expected, the Les Miles would be a bowl of lawn clippings.
I could eat my weight in loaded potato - well or anything that has bacon really.
Harris Teeter has a loaded baked potato salad that is an absolute can't-miss.
I've been known to sneak that into the grocery cart when shopping with the wife a time or two... that, and the carrot cake from Harris Teeter.
Same (except I don't have a wife monitoring my cart).
This list is incredibly incomplete. Missing ham salad, taco salad, Caesar salad, basic house salad, cobb salad, caprese salad, and egg salad. Really I think this is just an endorsement for beet salad disguised a food post.
The wedge salad!
Onion needs to be in all egg, tuna, etc. salads.
Salad is not food, that is what food eats
Well, except for bacon and egg salad.
The sexiest woman in food sports makes me a salad.
Okay, Ron Swanson.
this seems like an off-season type of thread...
anyway...salad is bait
How has no one mentioned the best salad yet?! Pasta Salad!
Pardon my Southern-ness Y'all but... I give you...
Polk Salad
or as we called it "Poke Salad"... My Granny used fatback rather than bacon... but anything that uses profuse amounts of pork is ok by me! Delicious!
Leg for a salad that, if made improperly, can kill a HORSE.
Grape salad. That is all.
No love for the Greek salad anyone? Cucumber, tomato, bell pepper, onion, kalamata olives and a whole mess of feta... heaven.
With this guy.
Cucumbers can go back to the hellhole they came from
Goodness man, thats harsh, what about pickles?!?!
Worked two summers in a pickle plant in Norfolk making Fanning's Bread and Butter pickles. To this day, the smell of a sliced cucumber makes me pucker up and back off. I enjoy dill pickles, but any sweet pickle at all is too much of a reminder of those days in that ridiculous place.
I thought cucumbers were poisonous before they were pickled. At least unprocessed cucumbers taste like they should be poisonous.
Richmond people, there used to be a place that made a salad with apple in it with this great dressing, used to bring food to VCU hospital all the time. Anyone?
Sounds like Waldorf Salad but no clue who delivered it.
This one didn't have the nuts etc. I can taste it just don't remember it's name.
Found it: Groovin' Gourmet
Granny Apple Salad: http://groovingourmets.com/online-ordering/#!/menus/24719/categories/627...
Hey, Groovin' Gourmets catered my wedding and reception (both at the Science Museum, a highly underrated venue). Everything they made was really good. When my wife first contacted them she happened to mention off-hand that I liked fried chicken while looking at the catering menu and they ended up surprising me at the tasting with really good fried chicken sliders with a fantastic sauce that wasn't on the menu. Highly recommended. I didn't try the Granny Apple Salad, though.
They are awesome.
Just read the entire thread. I can't believe some of y'all. Don't like mayo, don't like ranch, don't like eggs!! What has happened.
I know, right? It's almost like when people say Moe's is better than Chipotle. Unreal.
I can do this all day...
This back and forth was quite funny. But Chipotle remains vastly superior in taste and quality.
if i were to find out that someone is feeding moe's to their dog, i would report them for animal abuse
Who eats ground beef in southwestern or Mexican food? Chicken or steak.
A proper lunch burrito has ground beef, potatoes, and refried beans.
Because all my coworkers deserve a bio-weapon attack.
Let us do an extremely scientifical study of the meats used by the companies in question (read as: look at pictures of their meats from the company website)
Here, we have a very good look at the delicious, tender, flavorful meats offered by Chipotle (the good guys).
And here we have a look at the *ahem*
cannedmeats offered by Moe's (the blah guys).In conclusion, this study was done by yours truly using absolutely no bias (/s) and the best scientific evidence available (in other words, no scientific evidence...)!
But in all seriousness, that grilled chicken from Moe's looks like the bagged, cubed chicken you can get at any grocery store and the pulled pork looks rather bland too. GO CHIPOTLE!
looking at that chipotle shot made me hungry. Looking at the Moe's shot made me lose my appetite.
Agreed. I'm craving a burrito from Chipotle now...
PORK
But yeah ground beef at chain Mexican is a real rookie move.
*googles "edible food moe's", can only find pictures of chips*
Didn't want to overwhelm anyone with the amazing goodness this early in the morning.
Chipotle delivers their food by helicopter.
FTW.
It's a drone and only to people in a study.
It's still a helicopter and Moe's doesn't even do that.
Looks more like a plane.
Like all things Chipotle does they just copied someone else.
http://tacocopter.com
I'll give you an A for effort here but, if I put wings on a submarine, it doesn't make it a plane.
It makes it a cruise missile, right?
Put wings on a submarine....
and it makes it a submarine.
Those aren't wings. Those are Honda Civic spoilers.
heeeeeeey, I worked on these for 6 years!!
It's a fixed wing UAS with vertical takeoff/hovering capabilities if you want to get technical.
I still don't see how they're going to make this work. FAA has too many rules for commercial UAS operations, especially when it comes to cargo delivery. They tightened the screws on the regulations for that stuff.
Not sure if it's applicable, but the FAA just really loosened the strings on regulating and authorization for agriculture. I'm trying to get one to spray my soybean crop and before theadt month or so, I would've had to take a pilots licensing course and gotten my amateur or whatever license. Now, just buy it and report to the FAA you own it with registration info and you're good to go. But again, I only read the changes as apply to ag applications, so it could be different for research which is what this sounds like
They did loosen it for agriculture but tightened down on cargo delivery.
Also, for agricultural purposes, to be completely within the law, you're going to need to pass the Remote Pilot Exam to get your Airman Certificate with small UAS rating. You'll also have to register your craft, as you mentioned.
I know of some people who said they're just going to fly anyway and bother with the consequences later if and when they get caught, but after taking the exam, airspace is a big deal for this application. And if you were to be flying in the wrong airspace without authorization or a proper license, and cause an accident or near miss, they are going to lower the boom on you.
Here are some links if you're interested.
AC 107-2
Part 107 Fact sheet
Even shorter summary of new rules
an ecoli study?
Probably has something to do with Chipotle putting that hell-herb cilantro in every.fucking.thing.
(Please note: I've only eaten Chipotle once, back before they got really really huge, and there was no option other than cilantro rice. I have zero idea if they've changed things in the meantime, but the amount of money I paid for a piece of trash I could barely choke down disinclined me to ever visit again)
I'm mildly allergic to Cilantro and my story matches yours, except I ate 75% of it and had a rash and my throat swelled up. My wife loves Chipotle, so before we go, I put a cup of rice in the rice cooker, go get a burrito bowl without rice and then add the rice when I get back home. I like Chipotle, but I can't eat that stupid rice. They need to realize a lot of people don't like cilantro and make a second rice without it.
Do they put cilantro in the brown rice too?
I think so, because I remember getting pretty excited when I heard they had a 2nd type of rice, but then it had cilantro in it too.
assholes
They're all heathens
Only a former offensive lineman would like beet salad, since beets taste like dirt.
Pickled Beets are the bomb!
Seeing plenty of anti-mayonnaise posts on here makes me wonder what having a wrong opinion feels like.
via GIPHY
I thought that's what sausages were, meat salad in a convenient package.
Beautiful singer and musician, Lights, features in one of these Epic Meal Time videos.
Nobody likes their salad tossed?...
Wow, No board has humor like this board. :--)
Ambrosia for the damn win.
/thread
I'm starving now. Thanks everyone. Gonna go home later and learn how to make 1000 different salads cause of y'all
1 - Wedge Salad
2 - Everything else
My grandfather is Cliff Cobb. He invented the Cobb Salad.
The grilled chicken Market Salad from Chik-Fil-A with the Blueberry Balsamic is a pretty reliable go-to on the go. If you're with David Wilson, he could get you one on Sunday.
Ease up on the MayoHate. It has its place, just like all of God's creatures.
Also, when making tuna salad, throw in a splash or two of Texas Pete. You won't be sorry.
I'm one of the mayo haters, but like you said, it has its place. I can eat a little of it in chicken or tuna salad, for example, and it is a good dressing for grilling some kinds of fish. I like egg salad a little, but love it on a grilled sandwich. In the end, though, give me a really good ground beef taco salad and I'm a happy camper. Full meal in a deliciously edible bowl. Mmm mmm.
Kale, chicken, berries, edamame, citrus vinegrette. BOOM.
1. Meat salad - all kinds. Goose salad with tarragon mayo, boiled eggs, minced celery and green onions. Smoked Ahi Tuna with homemade sriracha mayo and minced lemon grass. Chicken salad with curry powder in the mayo, golden raisins, minced bread and butter pickles. Shrimp salad with Thai green curry mayo, minced habanero pepper, chopped green onion. Big chunks of ham with mayo, mustard, green onions and boiled eggs. Lamb with tzatziki sauce, minced hot pickled okra, dried tomato. Turkey with dried cranberries, diced apples, sage and mayo.
2. Pimento Cheese
3. Pasta salad made with small tortellini or ravioli, diced cured Italian deli meats, marinated artichoke hearts, olives, dried tomatoes, etc in Italian dressing.
4. Leaf lettuce salads without iceberg lettuce, but with meat, fruit, nuts and other veggies.
5. Broccoli salad
6. Homemade coleslaw
IMO, salads should be categorized by the type of meal and the complementary food & beverage choices. Examples:
Wedge Salad: steak, Cabernet or beer
Caprese/Caesar/Italian salad: Italian/garlic red sauce based meals, Sangiovese (e.g., Brunello, Chianti Classico Riserva) or beer
Cole Slaw: barbecue, Zinfandel or beer
Potato/Fruit Salad: burgers/dogs/fried chicken, Zinfandel/Rhone or beer
Waldorf/Ambrosia Salad: Holiday meals (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter), Red/White or beer
Taco Salad: Top shelf margarita with Anejo tequlia, beer
Tuna/Chicken/Egg/Cobb Salad: these are lunch options. White wine, beer, iced tea, soda
I never liked vegetable, macaroni or any kind of cold pasta salad. And, I firmly believe that beets were not meant for human consumption.
#1 Cobb Salad
#2 Taco salad where it comes in a fried taco bowl
I'm on the Egg-Salad band wagon. Followed by Potato Salad.
Wait, salads thread?
I had no idea this would be such a scorcher!
There's actually a salad for that...
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/200940/summer-sweet-scorcher-salad/
what does it say about our football team that we're spending this much time talking about salad preferences 2 weeks into the season?
That we're a forum full of foodies?
That with limited media access, no conference games under the belt and no shockers from the team so far we as a TKP board can chew gum and walk at the same time.
That we're already tired of rehashing the Bristol game and there just isn't a lot to say about BC?
I'll talk about BC.
I really hate BC.
And fuck Matt Ryan.
Maybe it says posters on this site are rationale fans and appreciate a life balance outside of Tech sports?
Well, my rationale is that Tech sports or no Tech sports, ya gotta eat.
Throw some bacon, tomato, and tabasco sauce on that chicken salad sandwich and move to the top of the list!
I like a good salad bar. Some of my favorites:
Jason's Deli
Plantation at Sunny Brook - in Roanoke
Chop House (chicken tender salad)
'Nuff said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXeWOtjfVgw
Great with Italian Dressing
My favorite salad is: 1) Take a plate of lettuce, add tomatoes, cucumbers, onion and carrots. 2) Throw the plate away, 3) Add biscuits and sausage gravy. 4) Enjoy.
I can't believe no one has mentioned Watergate salad!
oil + red wine vinegar + salt = the only dressing ever needed
Anyone in Roanoke had the gas station salad? Sounds like a bad idea but best salad in town. Shell station at the corner of Starkey and 419.
Al's Metro Deli in cburg has a really good chef's salad for those coming into town any of the next two weekends.
All Right I'll throw this out there since it is fall and I like it- We call it a heavy salad- proportions may be off since I make it by eye
Dressing
1 Oz good Balsamic Vinegar
2 Oz EV Olive Oil
Beat the hell out of this by your favorite method until its a nice thick emulsion,
Ingredients:
1/2 C Rasins
1/4 C salted sun flower seeds
1/4 C good Blue Cheese Maytag, Asher Blue etc cut/crumble into a fine dice (sorry French)
Medium Dice
1 Fuji or sweet crisp apple and
1/2 C Carrots
Wash and Tear up 5-6 Cups tender lettuce, put in a bowl and dress. Dump in the other ingredients and toss well.
Eat- Keeps pretty well for 1-2 days. Feel free to adjust the proportions as you see fit.
So cake or pie wasn't enough? We're going to split the site by salad preference now? I for one will proclaim myself #TEAMTACOSALAD. Stand with me brothers!
#TEAMNOSALAD
#TEAMFRITOSALAD?
Firmly with you on the Taco salad. Having never had a Frito salad, though, I can only trust your usually impeccable taste that it would be good, but I usually like my Fritos with M&Ms late at night while reading in bed trying to finish a really good book...but I do digress.
Can I entice you?
Consider me enticed.
I'm Greek.
1) We get it French, you love beets.
2) Currently the only salad in our fridge is pimento cheese.
3) It's football season, why the hell are you yammering on about salad?