HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR SALADS

Hey Lovelies,
It being a lazy Sunday I decided to just find some fun facts for you guys about food. Today I'll be giving you the low down on salads. We all know what salads are and most if not all of us love to eat different kinds of salads with our meals. I always thought that serving salads came with a set of rules that had to be followed, apparently not. Salads can be served at whatever point of meal taking. They do not have to be served as a side dish with meals or before eating meals. I only knew of fruit salads, vegetable salads, pasta salads and egg salads. But there are more and even different types of salads.I want to try and make a few of them depending on the ingredients that I will find. Making salads is a fun thing because you get to mix and match your ingredients and add in herbs, oils, spices and even liquids of your choice to make the ultimate delicious salad. Are there any salads that you recognize from the list of salads below? Have you tried any of the salads in the list?

Types of salads

• Green salad

A green salad or garden salad is most often composed of leafy vegetables such as lettuce varieties, spinach, or rocket (arugula). The salad leaves may be cut or torn into bite-sized fragments and tossed together (called a tossed salad), or may be placed in a predetermined arrangement (a composed salad). They are often adorned with garnishes such as nuts or croutons. A wedge salad is made from a head of lettuce (such as iceberg) halved or quartered, with other ingredients on top.

•  Vegetable salad

Vegetables other than greens may be used in a salad. Common raw vegetables used in a salad include cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, onions, spring onions, red onions, carrots, celery, and radishes. Other ingredients, such as mushrooms, avocado, olives, hard boiled egg, artichoke hearts, heart of palm, roasted red bell peppers, green beans, croutons, cheeses, meat (e.g. bacon, chicken), or seafood (e.g. tuna, shrimp), are sometimes added to salads.

•  Bound salad

A "bound" salad can be composed (arranged) or tossed (put in a bowl and mixed with a thick dressing). They are assembled with thick sauces such as mayonnaise. One portion of a true bound salad will hold its shape when placed on a plate with an ice-cream scoop. Examples of bound salad include tuna salad, pasta salad, chicken salad, egg salad, and potato salad. Bound salads are often used as sandwich fillings. They are popular at picnics and barbecues.

•  Main course salads

Main course salads (also known as "dinner salads" and commonly known as "entrée salads" in North America) may contain grilled or fried chicken pieces, seafood such as grilled or fried shrimp or a fish steak such as tuna, mahi-mahi, or salmon or sliced steak, such as sirloin or skirt. Caesar salad, Chef salad, Cobb salad, Chinese chicken salad and Michigan salad are dinner salads.

•  Fruit salads

Fruit salads are made of fruit, and include the fruit cocktail that can be made fresh or from canned fruit.

•  Dessert salads

Dessert salads rarely include leafy greens and are often sweet. Common variants are made with gelatin or whipped cream; e.g. jello salad, pistachio salad, and ambrosia. Other forms of dessert salads include snickers salad, glorified rice, and cookie salad popular in parts of the Midwestern United States.

•  Composed salad

A composed salad is a salad arranged on a plate rather than put into a bowl. It can be used as a meal in itself rather than as a part of a meal.

A List of Salads include

Bean salad. Broccoli slaw. Caesar salad. Candle salad. Caprese salad. Chef salad. Chicken salad. Chinese chicken salad. Coleslaw. Congealed salad. Cookie salad. Crab Louie. Çoban salatası. Cobb salad. Dressed herring. Egg salad. Eggplant salad. Fattoush. Fruit salad. Gado-gado. Gỏi ngó sen. Greek salad. Ham salad. Israeli salad. Karedok. Larb. Macaroni salad. Mimosa salad. Panzanella. Pasta salad. Potato salad. Salade niçoise. Salad Olivier. Salmagundi. Seven-layer salad. Shopska salad. Somen salad. Som tam. Tabouli. Taco salad. Thai salads. Tuna salad. Vinegret. Waldorf salad. Watergate salad. Wurstsalat

Salads may be served at any point during a meal:

Appetizer salads, light, smaller portion-salads to stimulate the appetite as the first course of the meal.

Side salads, to accompany the main course as a side dish.

Main course salads, usually containing a portion of a protein food, such as chicken breast, salmon, legumes, cheese or slices of beef.

Dessert salads, sweet versions containing fruit (alone as in a fruit salad or mixed with other ingredients), gelatin, sweeteners or whipped cream.

Toppings and garnishes

Popular salad garnishes are nuts, croutons, anchovies, bacon bits (real or imitation), garden beet, bell peppers, shredded carrots, diced celery, watercress, sliced cucumber, parsley, sliced mushrooms, sliced red onion, radish, french fries, sunflower seeds (shelled), real or artificial crab meat (surimi) and cherry tomatoes. Various cheeses, berries, seeds and other ingredients can also be added to green salads. Cheeses, in the form of cubes, crumbles, or grated, are often used, including blue cheese, Parmesan cheese, and feta cheese. Color considerations are sometimes addressed by using edible flowers, red radishes, carrots, various colors of peppers, and other colorful ingredients.