How To Do Just About Everything
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You and I love our microgreens and arugula and mesclun, but when we serve these precious, white-balsamic laden salads to our boyfriends and husbands, they seem less than thrilled. Is it because baby greens are smaller and inherently less masculine? Do our men friends think they'll become lighter in their loafers if they let themselves enjoy a forkful of something "tender"? Perhaps my next wehow article will be on how to find better husbands and boyfriends who won't feel emasculated by lettuce, but for now, let's enable:
Chop your crispy, water-beaded head of iceberg into little, bite-size chunks. Use the whole head.
Peel three carrots and dice. Also dice two stalks of celery and a small bag of radishes. Not the bag, just the radishes. Also snip in a bundle of scallions.
Dressing: in a small bowl, squirt in about a quarter of a cup of ketchup. Or even catsup. Now pour in some worcestershire--eh, about 2 tablespoons. Now the white wine vinegar--enough to make a thick liquid out of what's already in the bowl. YOU decide. Sprinkle in some sugar, oh, I don't know, a pinch. Shake in some garlic salt and white pepper. Now take your Nigella Lawson whisk (which I know you bought because of my omelette article, right?) and whisk in regular oil. Can you believe it? NOT olive oil. I know. You forgot there even WAS such a thing. So let's call the oil you're going to use: Salad oil. A term I love. Whisk, then refrigerate for 10 minutes, then pour over your individual bowls of salad--this is not a tossing kind of dressing.
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