“I live in a good house salad,” says Pittsburgh based Jessica Merchant With her new cookbook It’s easy every dayI’ve loved this month. “For some reason, a few years ago I was hooked on the idea of having a distinctive house salad: an incredibly flavorful green salad.
Isn’t that a fun idea? Her own house salad, she explains, has two outstanding features, Asian gosh cheese and sunflower seeds, in addition to greens, carrots, tomatoes, onions and croutons.
While reading Jessica’s cookbook, I realized that my friend Liz Livele had a home salad. For over a decade, she has made arugula out of lemon vinaigrette. (We talked about it on her 2016 house tour!) “The 5-year-old Griffin is the biggest Sarah Dyter in our home for dressing,” she told me at the time. “He always has a few seconds,” he is now 14, and he still loves it. (Dressing recipe: “I never measure it, but basically it’s a fair amount of lemon juice with olive oil and champagne vinegar, one or two mincon garlic cloves, a little Dijon mustard, a little mayo, salt and pepper.”)
Also, I realized that my heart hurts, my dad has it (pictured above). “Mine is very basic,” he told me on the phone this morning, and I laughed as I was looking for his recipe. “I like a variety of tomatoes in different colours. I always have a mixture of mushrooms and usually peppers. If avocado is good, I do avocado.” Sometimes he makes dressings (“mainly olive oil, Dijon mustard, balsamic vinegar, that’s my dressing, and we made in France at lunchtime, but it’s really tangy when I put a lot of mustard on it”) He also goes to Newman himself or the expressions of garlic (“I bounce off”). He makes salads for us hundreds of millions of times and estimates he ate it. Then he laughs again.
Have (or do) (or do) a house salad? I’m obsessed with ideas.
PS better salad, 5 salads without lettuce, tricks for candle magic.
Source: Cup of Jo – cupofjo.com
