A salad is a food item generally served either before or after the main dish as a separate course, as a main course in itself, or as a side dish accompanying the main dish. The word "salad" comes from the French salade of the same meaning, from the Latin salata, "salty", from sal, "salt". (See also sauce, salsa, sausage.) Salad also commonly refers to a blended food item— often meat, seafood or eggs blended with mayonnaise, finely chopped vegetables and seasonings— which can be served as part of a green salad, but is often used as a sandwich filling. Salads of this kind includ ...

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A green salad is often served with a dressing. Some examples include: Mayonnaise Louis dressing Ranch dressing Russian dressing Thousand Island dressing Green goddess dressing Blue cheese dressing Olive oil French dressing Vinaigrette Tahini Italian dressing Conception of salad dressing vary across culture. Common salad dressings in North American tend to be very broad. Traditional dressings in ...

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The Cobb salad was a signature menu item of the Brown Derby, a Jewish delicatessen and restaurant in Los Angeles, California. The salad is now served in restaurants world-wide. It generally consists of finely chopped lettuce, avocado, tomato, chicken or turkey, hard boiled eggs, bacon, grated blue cheese, and French dressing. In 1937, Brown Derby owner Robert H. Cobb went into the restaurant's kitchen to fix himself a late night snack. He combed the refrigerator for what ingredients he could find, chopped them up and made himself a salad. Cobb shared the new creation with his friends and it became pop ...

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The "green salad" is most often composed of a mixture of uncooked vegetables, built up on a base of leaf vegetables such as one or more lettuce varieties, dandelion, spinach, or arugula. Other common vegetables in a green salad include tomato, cucumber, peppers, mushroom, onion, spring onion, carrot and radish. Other food items such as pasta, olives, cooked potatoes, rice, beans, croutons, meat (e.g. bacon, chicken), cheese, or fish ( ...

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Corn salad (Valerianella locusta) is a small plant of the family Valerianaceae which grows in a low rosette and in mild climates is used as a winter green, especially in salads. In warm and dry conditions it tends to bolt to seed. It is also called Lewiston cornsalad, mache, mâche, lamb's lettuce, field salad, and rapunzel. Corn salad - External link. USDA's Plant Profile for Valerianella locusta ...

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The "green salad" is most often composed of a mixture of uncooked or cold, cooked vegetables, built up on a base of leaf vegetables such as one or more lettuce varieties, dandelion, spinach, or arugula. Other common vegetables in a green salad include tomato, cucumber, peppers, mushroom, onion, spring onion, carrot and radish. Other food items such as pasta, olives, cooked potatoes, rice, beans, croutons, meat (e.g. bacon, chicken), cheese, or fish ( ...

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A Waldorf salad is a salad consisting of apple, nuts (especially walnuts), celery, and mayonnaise or a mayonnaise-based dressing. It was first created in 1896 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York by Oscar Tschirky who was the maître d'hôtel. It is traditionally served on lettuce. Dried fruit is often added--usually chopped dates or raisins. Waldorf salad - Cultural references. "Waldorf Salad" is the title of a 1979 episode of Fawlty Towers which concerns a bad-tempered American guest's ...

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Caesar salad is a traditional salad often prepared tableside. It is sometimes termed the "king" of salads. It was invented in 1924 by Caesar Cardini or one of his associates. Cardini was an Italian-American restaurateur and chef in Tijuana, Mexico, living in San Diego but working in Tijuana to avoid the restrictions of Prohibition. There are several stories about the specifics of the salad's creation, none of which can be confirmed. The most common is that it resulted from a Fourth of July rush depleting the kitchen's supplies, ...

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Below are descriptions of some, but not all of Jonti Picking's cartoons on weebls-stuff.com. This does not include Weebl and Bob. Weebl's cartoons - Magical Trevor. The first cartoon begins with a little man wearing a white robe that says "TREV" and a pointed white hat with a star hanging from the tip. His robe seems overly loose as it hangs from his extremities. He has an orange beard styled in such a way that several sections stick out and curl inward. This is apparently Magical Trevor (he has some genuine magic ...

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Caesar Cardini (1896-1956) was an Italian hotel owner, restaurateur, and chef in Tijuana, Mexico. In 1924 he invented the Caesar salad, the most popular salad of United States. Other related archives1896, 1924, 1956, Caesar salad, Italian, Mexico, Tijuana, United States, chef, hotel, restaurateur

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In cooking, to coddle food is to heat it in water kept just below the boiling point. The eggs added to a Caesar salad should ideally be coddled. However, coddled eggs are in actual fact still raw and eggs prepared in this way present a salmonella risk. Other related archivesCaesar salad, boiling point, cooking, salmonella

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This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. The information in this article appears to be more suited for a dictionary rather than an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, but Wiktionary is. Please verify that this article meets the Wiktionary criteria for inclusion. If this article can be modified to be more than a dictionary entry, please do so and remove this message. A crouton is a small piece of dry or fried bread, often seasoned, that is used to add texture and flavour to salads, notably the C ...

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The word vinaigrette (from the diminutive of the French term vinaigre meaning vinegar) can refer to: An emulsion of vinegar (or sometimes lemon juice) and vegetable oil, often flavored with herbs, spices, and other ingredients. Vinaigrettes are used as sauces in many cuisines, and as salad dressings. This is the most common use of the word. A small container with a perforated top, used to contain an aromatic substance such as vinegar or smelling salts (also called a vinegarette).

Arugula (American English) or rocket (Commonwealth English) is a type of leaf vegetable, for culinary purposes considered a sort of lettuce. Scientifically, it consists of three species: Eruca sativa, Diplotaxis tenuifolia and Diplotaxis muralis. It is occasionally known by its French name roquette or Italian names rucola or rughetta. Also known as "rocket" or "rocket salad", it has been grown as a vegetable in the Mediterranean area since the Roman times; it was considere ...

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Yusheng (Chinese: 鱼生; Hanyu Pinyin: yúshēng) is a Chinese-style raw fish salad. It usually consists of strips of raw fish (most commonly salmon), mixed with shredded vegetables and a variety of sauces and condiments, among other ingredients. Literally translated, "yusheng" means "raw fish", though it can also be taken ...

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The bowl, a common open-top vessel in many cultures, is used to serve food, and is sometimes also used for drinking and storing other items. They are generally small and shallow, although some, such as punch bowls and salad bowls, are larger and are sometimes intended to serve many people at once. Bowls have existed for thousands of years. Modern bowls can be made of ceramic, metal, wood, ...

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A cherry tomato is a smaller garden variety of tomato. It is marketed at a premium to ordinary tomatoes, and is popular as a snack and in salads. A cherry tomato is about the size of a thumb, and can range from being spherical to slightly oblong in shape. The cherry tomato has 24 chromosomes, and its scientific name is Lycopersicon esculentum cerasiforme. There are a number of cherry tomato varieties. The Santorini cherry tomato is cultivated in Santorini (Greece), and is known for its flavour and bo ...

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Balsamic vinegar is a traditional thick flavoured vinegar commonly used in Italian cuisine. It is also often used as a salad dressing when combined with oil. It is a traditional product originating in Modena, where it has been made since the Middle Ages and the name is protected by the Italian government. Unlike common vinegars, it is dark and thick with a complex, sweet taste and is much more expensive. Balsamic vinegar is a very dark-colored vinegar with a somewhat sweet flavor; in its long-aged forms (at least 10 and even up ...

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Coleslaw (or Cole Slaw) is a salad consisting primarily and minimally of shredded, raw, white cabbage, although it often also includes shredded carrots. There are many variations of the recipe which include the addition of other ingredients, such as red cabbage, pineapple or apple. It is always mixed with a dressing which traditionally consists of or is based on vinegar or a vinaigrette. Most modern coleslaw contains mayonnaise, although many regional variations exist. A variety of seasonings may be added. The dressing is allow ...

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