What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Waste Not, Want Not: Iceberg Lettuce Salad! Generally speaking, we all become pretty accustomed to grocery prices in our home town. We know, when it comes to produce, we can expect to pay a little more for berries than bananas. Just like the many varieties of leafy greens. Typically, spinach, kale, and romaine are always way more than iceberg lettuce. Right? So recently while visiting Kauai, knowing that a lot of food is imported, I made the decision to make some compromises. I picked up a head of iceberg lettuce listed at $3.99. In the States it’s around $1.49 a head. Okay. When I checked out, the register rung up $6.00. Imagine the sticker shock. Come to find out, the sign actually said iceberg lettuce was $3.99 a pound. Let me tell you, I stretched that head of lettuce over many meals and savored every bite.
ICEBERG LETTUCE SALAD
Ingredients:
3 leaves of lettuce, gently torn
1 Roma tomato, chopped
1 green onion, snipped
2 tablespoons Caesar dressing, prepared
1 tablespoon parmesan cheese, grated
1/8 teaspoon oregano
Instructions:
Divide the gently torn lettuce leaves between two salad plates. Arrange chopped tomatoes over lettuce. Using a kitchen shears, snip the green onion pieces over top. Drizzle with salad dressing. Sprinkle on parmesan cheese and oregano. Serve chilled.
I love salads like this one, Gail, and have some variation every day.
Joanna
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Salads are our friends, that’s for sure. 🥗🍃
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Yes!
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So simple, yet the taste would be amazing! You say “green” onions; I take you are referring to what we call “spring onions” or more colloquially “scallions”. 😋😋🙋♂️
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Funny you should say that, Ashley. Yesterday I posted a snapshot with the caption: Green Onions of Scallions? 🤣
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After our big floods earlier this year in Australia, a head of iceberg cost $12.
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(Gulp) 💦
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I think I would’ve put that lettuce back, Gail and leggypeggy. I guess that’s why I buy my lettuce and spinach at the salad bar whenever I make a salad.
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Good idea. 🥗🍃
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Iceberg lettuce is the grandfather of all lettuce and still makes a great salad 🥗😋🍃
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Sy, I like a mixture of lettuces but then again, I tend to make what I call a “kitchen sink salad”. 😀
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I hear you! Throw them all together, add some dressing and you’re good to go 😋
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I like the sound of that! 👏
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It does, doesn’t it? 🥗🍃
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Exactly!! Just had one a few days ago.😆
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Good for the body. 🍃🥗
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Oh, this time a very small arrangement. 😉 Can i have a piece of chicken added? Lol xx Michael
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Chicken, Fish, or Pork. You choose. 👏
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Dig in! 🥗🌿
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