Cold sausages in salads

[Hollis]

You'll never catch me serving it, though I have to make an exception there, granted (caesar salad is a guilty pleasure)
In restaurants chicken salads are often described as warm - yuck!


Don't get me started on serving cold salad on the same plate as main course at dinner parties - this is also WRONG! You serve the salad before or after the main course, not at the same time.
Salad that has been warmed up by other food next to it is vile.

Surely this depends on whether is a 'side salad' or a main course.

 

[Orang Utan]

they don't HAVE to be!

But they SHOULD be!

 

[Orang Utan]

Surely this depends on whether is a 'side salad' or a main course.

It should go on a side plate then

 

[Ms T]

I too am not a fan of pasta salad apart from when it has been made with a type of pasta that looks like rice called puntalette. Then it is nice -- especially when mixed with artichokes (one of my favourite things), cherry tomatoes, capers, olives, raisins and leftover roast chicken.

I am partial to a bit of beetroot in salads -- raw or cooked -- and I also like pumpkin or sunflower seeds.

Mayo is bad, apart from in potato salad, and then it must be lightened with yoghurt.

Warm sausage and potato salad is lush.

 

[mpython]

Cured cold sausage like chorizo is alright but a humble banger that's been cooked and is now cold is just wrong.
Other things that are unacceptable is salads are rice, pasta and potato.
In fact anything that has been cooked and has cooled down.
Salads are RAW!

Rice salad is not wrong;

Cold rice, bit of mayo, chopped onion, chopped gherkins, flaked tuna, cubes of cheese, salted peanuts

 

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mayo on rice?

that's worse than mayo on pasta

 

[mpython]

mayo on rice?

that's worse than mayo on pasta

Everything I suggest on here gets a bad reaction. Nobody ever tries it though.....

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

I had a friend who used to do mayo, pasta, peas and bacon as a main course.

 

[mpython]

I had a friend who used to do mayo, pasta, peas and bacon as a main course.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm............

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm............

pervert.

 

[mpython]

pervert.

Now sitting here with bowl of pasta, bacon, mayo, no peas... so sweetcorn, and pint of Stella! It could maybe use some parmesan.

 

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Everything I suggest on here gets a bad reaction. Nobody ever tries it though.....

i do something similar with a vinigrette dressing, or something similar based on lemon juice or yoghurt. a pasta dish such as the one you're eating gets dressed with olive oil, I've also stirred in cream cheese.

I don't mind many of the ideas, but just leave off the mayo. dress it with something that dosen't have the same icky congealing texture in the back of your throat as spunk

 

[Wolfie]

.....

Actually I've got to give credit to a ridiculous sounding fish and chip salad I had in a Bond St pizza restaurant. Surprisingly lovely - I've got a sneaking suspicion it's in one of Nigel Slater's cookery books somewhere.

it is - in Real Food I think - I've packed my cookery books so I can't check

.. oh look - isn't google wonderful - http://talby.csu.umist.ac.uk/~simonh/_collected_stuff/recipes_potatoes.html

 

[mpython]

i do something similar with a vinigrette dressing, or something similar based on lemon juice or yoghurt. a pasta dish such as the one you're eating gets dressed with olive oil, I've also stirred in cream cheese.

I don't mind many of the ideas, but just leave off the mayo. dress it with something that dosen't have the same icky congealing texture in the back of your throat as spunk