With summer now officially started since Memorial Day has passed, much of the country is now experiencing very hot temperatures. Because of this, many people cannot stand the thought of turning on the stove or oven in the house to cook dinner. A simple solution to the dilemma of “I want to eat but not turn on the stove because it’s too hot” is the salad. Salads are a mixture of cold foods which usually include vegetables or fruits, a dressing of some sort, nuts and or croutons. Fish or some other meat is frequently added.
In restaurants and at dinner parties, a salad is generally served as an appetizer before a larger meal. There are still entrée salads though and anyone can make a salad at home to meet any meal purpose they need.
Green salads are the most common kind of salad in the United States. Types of green salads include Caesar salad, Cobb Salad, Chef salad, Greek salad, and Michigan salad. They are generally composed of vegetables that are on top of a base of leaf vegetables The leaf vegetables can be a variety of lettuces, spinach leaves, arugula, or a combination of all of these leafy vegetables.
A number of summer vegetables are available to be added to the salad. These include cucumbers, peppers, mushrooms, carrots, onions, spring onions, red onions, celery, and radishes. In addition, tomatoes, pasta, olives, cooked potatoes, rice, corn, green beans, and black beans are added. If the salad is being created at home, what goes into it is left entirely up to the discretion of the person who is going to eat the salad.
In restaurants, a small salad without meat is a dinner salad. Entrée salads generally include some sort of meat. Typical choices include grilled or fried shrimp, grilled or fried chicken fingers, seafood, fish steak such as tuna, mahi-mahi, or salmon. Steak, such as a sirloin, can be grilled, sliced, and then placed on the salad as well.
On top of salads, people typically pour dressings. Dressings come in a variety of forms. They can be created using a variety of bases including mayonnaise, yogurt, olive oil, and other healthy forms of oil. In the United States, a variety of dressings are popular all over the place. In Southern Europe, the salad dressings are generally vinaigrettes. Mayonnaise based dressings are the predominant choice in Eastern European countries as well as Russia.
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