Confession

[christopher575]

The reason I posted the poll about my lunch salad yesterday was that the store was out of my normal lunch noodles, so I had to do something different. However, when I got ready this morning I found two more in my kitchen cabinet so I was able to bring those to the office, and never had to decide how to handle the salad issue.

But you guys were right. When I do it, I'll segregate a bit to preserve some of the textures.

Speaking of textures. When I was at the store yesterday I was trying to think of something to add to this series of bomb-ass salads for some crunch. I'm sick of croutons (burnt toast lol), and those fried chow mein noodles just seem so bad for you. I had a flash of inspiration on the way home from my doctor appointment today, and I encourage you to try it on your own salads because it was really good. I smashed a package of ramen up and used about a quarter or a third of it. Delicious.

The original inspiration for this was wondering if boiling the noodles and cooling them off could somehow simulate bun (vietnamese vermicelli) but then I realized I'd found what I was looking for last night. Huzzah!

I also decided while making tonight's salad that I'm going to have a lot of salads for dinner for a while. It's an easy way to play around with a lot of flavors while avoiding the stuff I generally hate about cooking.

I wonder how my salad buddy is doing.

Comments

[notlostonme.livejournal.com]

FYI: I ate salad for lunch today at 3:30pm.
I must have been thinking about you or something.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

SALLID TWINZ

[leolz.livejournal.com]

Sunflower seeds or sliced almonds. YUM.

[notlostonme.livejournal.com]

SO YUMMARIFFIC.
Now I am eating some yogurt with some granola in it since I had no protein for lunch.
I think Nick is gagging.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Yeah I was thinking about sunflower seeds, too. One of my mental salad concepts was to try to create a sort of trail mix salad. Raisins, craisins, seeds, nuts, some kind of sweet dressing. You get the idea.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I need some protein. There was chicken in my salad but I wish it had a different dressing.

[notlostonme.livejournal.com]

I had Caesar. Not too much dressing. PERFECT.

[notlostonme.livejournal.com]

I do that. Use spinach and a raspberry puree(or jam if you must)-balsamic vinaigrette. Super effin' yummy.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I totally just made a joke about "man dressing" but it was too subtle. I must be losing my touch.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Omega and it could have those peanut butter granola ball snack things.

Shit, I've developed a salad obsession.

[notlostonme.livejournal.com]

It's ok. he beat you to it.

[notlostonme.livejournal.com]

See? Welcome to my world. Salad all day every day please.
My boyfriend is not in approval of this.

[cattycritic.livejournal.com]

You need to make a jessface silent duck salad for an elevator operator.

[monsterbrain.livejournal.com]

I'm a big fan of sunflower seeds.

With ranch.

Midwestern, but yum.

tasty salad funtime happy ending

[pixink.livejournal.com]

Baby spinach, mandarin orange slices, diced avocado, shredded chicken (you can grill it, or buy one of those rotisserie things), top with sunflower seeds and balsamic vinaigrette. Tasteeee.

[poppychirpy.livejournal.com]

You could also try onion rings for crunch.

[notlostonme.livejournal.com]

DING DING DING

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

You just had to go make a ding noise. Like the first sound in this:

[notlostonme.livejournal.com]

I see no salad tossing.
WHERE IS IT?!

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I'm about to go spray it all over the bears at karaoke. Peace.

[notlostonme.livejournal.com]

HUG THEM FOR ME.

[devildork.livejournal.com]

i love salads and eat them a couple of times a week. they are so very flexable. i really like the baby goldfish crackers in my salad for crunch.

[cecilgene.livejournal.com]

*insert salad tossing joke here*
*insert protein joke here*
*insert request that you get help for your salad addiction here*

[ursaloco2.livejournal.com]

all those things are good in coleslaw mix...
also, there's an asian slaw that uses ginger and broken up uncooked ramen.
(which, btw, is typically full of fat--just as much as the chow mein noodles...
speaking of coleslaw...sliced strawberries mixed in with it makes it sweet and yummy pink.

[filarabit.livejournal.com]

Most Ramens are very high in fat... but then if you get good ones they may not be... ?? I suspect worse than the fried chow mein noodles. ?? I did not research this statement... going strictly from my flawed fuzzy memory... so if I am wrong I apologize in advance.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

The packets of Ramen that I have at home now are 170 calories total and 90 calories from fat, which means 10 grams. Not a great percentage by any means, but also not that many total calories.