On Sun 08 Nov 2009 09:33:26a, Nancy Young told us...

> garden-variety dick wrote:
>
>> What I've done is to use roughly equal amounts of veggies in the
>> salad, and changed the vinagrette slightly.
>> example:
>> One handful of romaine lettuce, one handful of sliced cabbage, one
>> handful of thinly sliced carrots, one handful of sliced scallions, one
>> and a half handfuls of sliced celery, one handful of sweet red
>> peppers. In a stainless steel or whatever bowl. Then add: freshly
>> ground black pepper, a few shakes of lemon pepper, a wee bit of salt
>> (to taste), a small amount of honey(to taste; I don't like it too
>> sweet), olive oil, and some apple cider vinegar; about equal to the
>> amount of olive oil(I know it's supposed to be in a 3:1 ratio, but
>> this is how I like it). Toss the salad. It's really great, at least
>> according to my tastes. I really like the cabbage in there.
>
> I love having some raw cauliflowerettes in there, or some cut up
> apple or orange. It's got to be more than just lettuce with some
> dressing or it just gets to be boring. Sunflower seeds are nice, too.
>
> nancy (doesn't know if cauliflowerettes is a word. I just like them
> very small but big enough to fork)

They often seem to be referred to as "florettes", the same as brocoli. But
by any other name, they're certainly just as good!

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