Salad Recipes

[mbrown]

Due to blood thinning medication that I am taking, and the fact that my body produces too much vitamin K, I cannot eat green leafy vegetables which are high in vitamin K.

Does anyone have good recipes for vegetable salads which do not contain green leafy veggies.

Green leafy veggies include:

Lettuce
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Mustard greens, beet greens, turnip greens, etc.

Mike

[houseodessey]

Hi Mike:

Here's one I posted on T'ville a while back.

Vietnamese Salad

Red and green leaf lettuce make up 2/3 of the greens, with cilantro making up the rest. I matchstick a lot of radishes, carrots, cucumbers and red bell peppers, top it off with those big juicy bean sprouts and then mix up some asian sesame dressing (Good Seasons has a good powdered one using their cruets like the Italian dressings you see). If I want a heavier meal, I add rice vermicelli noodles and spicy pork strips, as well. It really makes for a nice summer meal.

You could incorporate any kind of cabbage in it, as well. You could also leave out the cilantro if you are one of the many people who don't like the flavor.

I like to use kale (don't know about vit K content) in salads, too with just avocado, lemon juice, a bit of olive oil sea salt and pepper. I'm sure you could do other greens this way, too and add whatever veggies you enjoy.

[houseodessey]

For cauliflower, I make a good but really fattening salad that has a whole head of cauliflower, green onions, toasted pine nuts, parmesean cheese and parmesean dressing in it. I just eyeball it but I'll try to find an actual recipe and post it later. It's a great, low carb alternative to potato salad, if someone's doing atkins or south beach.

[houseodessey]

I misread your post. You can't have the listed items. DER. I'll leave the recipes up anyway. Sorry, everyone.

[lavandulagirl]

Mike - what about subbing in fresh green beans for the lettuce part of a salad? I often will make a "green" salad with green beans, cherry toms, olives, carrots and some kind of seed or nut (sunflower seeds, sliced almonds maybe?) with a simple balsamic vinagrette over the whole thing. Green beans are nice, because they hold their own against a dressing, which means you could dress this ahead of time, and not worry about wilt. Oh, and usually I steam or blanch the beans so that they are crisp, but have been cooked just a bit. I like their texture better that way.

I'll check through my cook books for more recipes, but this might be usable one, anyway.

[houseodessey]

Ok, now to redeem myself...

Have you tried a tomato, fresh basil and mozzerella salad with olive oil, garlic, onion, S & P and lemon?

How about a cold gazpacho soup with cucumbers, bell peppers, garlic and tomatoes?

I also like to use chick peas (garbanzos) and add fresh tomatoes, cukes, basil, vinegar and oil or lemon juice, garlic S & P.

Hopefully at least one of these will sound good to you.

[mbrown]

I appreciate your replies. Substituting green beans sounds very interesting.

The gazpacho sounds like it would be nice on a warm afternoon with a glass of chardonnay.

Mike

[kimikat]

mbrown said:

I appreciate your replies. Substituting green beans sounds very interesting.

The gazpacho sounds like it would be nice on a warm afternoon with a glass of chardonnay.

Mike

gazpacho is traditionally served cold.

Think vegetable juice smoothie...lol!

[bluelacedredhead]

Mike, check out the recipes on my Spelt post.
alanbishop.proboards60.com/index.cgi?board=banter&action=display&thread=1176518632&page=1
The one from the Toronto Star is a salad recipe. it sounds good too!!

[johno]

I made a salad a few days ago that was a big hit with my picky ladies...

one large tomato, cut into chunks
one large cucumber, peeled and deseeded, cut into chunks
one and a half pounds of shrimp, boiled in Old Bay seasoning and chilled
country french dressing goes well with it.

I don't usually use or write down recipes, but simply chunking any chilled veggies makes a good salad, sans greens.

[ohiorganic]

Carrot salad,

Grate carrots, a small sweet onion, a few radishes and mix together add cole slaw, ranch or italian dressing, mix again and let sit in the fridge for at least an hour so the flavors can marry. Add raisins and walnuts if you like, and serve. If you can eat parsley that is a very nice addition as well.

[ohiorganic]

This is my favorite summer salad,

tomato, cucumber and sweet onion. Slice everything thinly put in a bowl top with a nice home made vinagrette salt and pepper. Feta or Mozz cheese is also nice in this

[bunkie]

what about adding lentils, like a three bean salad?

we also use olive oil and blasamic vinegar for a dressing, and crumbled blue cheese on the salad.)

[joanofpa]

Okay, think pasta salad. It has shredded carrot, chick pea, broccoli, some diced tomato, a little diced pepper and anyother veggie you want, mixed in pasta. You could do the same totally omitting the pasta or just add a small amount.