Although preparing salads takes practice to get it just right, you’ll discover that making a good salad is easy to make if you just follow a few simple guidelines.
How to Shop for Salad Ingredients
1. Fresh!!!
Great salads begin with high-quality ingredients. Of course, organically grown, too! Avoid limp, browning lettuces and select perky, crisp greens. All components should be as fresh as possible. Most prepackaged salad mixes are not fresh. To revive limp greens (provided they’re not overlimp), just place them in a large bowl with ice water (but no more than five minutes or they will become waterlogged). Then transfer the greens into a salad spinner to spin dry them.
2. Younger greens are better
Mesclun mixes often contain tough, older lettuce leaves. Whenever possible, buy younger, smaller lettuce leaves.
3. How much to buy?
A minimum of 2 cups of loosely packed greens per person, or slightly less if other ingredients are to be added is ideal.
Source Material from Jill Santopietro of chow.com
Reprinted from www.forksoverknives.com
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Two out of every three of us are overweight. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especially amongst our younger population. About half of us are taking at least one prescription drug. Major medical operations have become routine, helping to drive health care costs to astronomical levels. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country’s three leading causes of death, even though billions are spent each year to “battle” these very conditions. Millions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases.
Could it be there’s a single solution to all of these problems? A solution so comprehensive yet so straightforward, that it’s mind-boggling that more of us haven’t taken it seriously?
This raw vegan version is one condiment you’ll always want to have ready in the kitchen. For variations of sauces and dressings from this base recipe, here’s a handy chart.
Yield: 3 cups
INGREDIENTS
2 cups raw cashews, soaked 4 hours, rinsed then drained
¾ cup filtered water
¼ cup olive oil
¼ cup flax oil
3 Tablespoons lemon juice
2 pitted Medjool dates
2 teaspoons onion powder
1½ teaspoons Celtic sea salt
1 teaspoon garlic powder
Pinch of white pepper
PREPARATION METHOD
- In a high-speed blender, puree all of the ingredients, stopping the blender to scrape down the sides with a spatula. Resume blending until the mayonnaise is smooth and creamy.
- Store in an air-tight container in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.
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