Green Salad

Recipe Submitted by Donna ..|.. Index | Soup / Salad / Side | Menu

Ingredients

1 cluster Romaine lettuce rinsed, drained and cut into pieces
1/2 cup croutons (your favorite flavor)
1 Tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese
Your favorite dressing (Caesar dressing is good with this)

Directions

Toss all ingredients just before serving.

Preparing Romaine lettuce -
A Romaine lettuce "head," although it is not a head, consists of long leaves bound at the root end. To prepare the leaves to be bite-sized pieces for a salad, do this.

Clean a sink and fill it with water or fill a very large bowl with water.
Lay the bundle of leaves on a large cutting board. Trim off the tops of the leaves in one cut. This removes the tough leaf tips.
Cut off the root end.
Cut the leaves lengthwise into thirds or halves, depending on the width of the leaves
Cut across the length into 1 inch pieces or to the size that you need.
Place the cut leaves in the water to wash the leaves
Place the leaves in a salad spinner to remove the water - drain the lettuce in a large colander.
Refrigerate the lettuce until it is time to use it.

serves 3-4

Salad Spinner

Pictured on this page is a green salad spinner. This spinner is the one that I have. It's made by OXO. I like the color of it, but what I like most is how functional it is. Not only does it work well at removing water from vegetables, it can be used to store lettuce. After I dry lettuce with it, I dump out the water, lock down the top knob, and put the whole thing in the refrigerator.