Making an Italian Lunch Salad

Video Transcript

"So the sandwiches are in the oven and now we can make the salad first we're going to take some of the arugula same arugula we used for the sandwich, about 2 cups ah, just a couple of good hands full a little bit more arugula is some good stuff. Then we're going to add in some radicchio so let me cut up a little bit of this radicchio is some red lettuce amazingness I like having color in salads to me color makes all the difference, I love how radicchio adds so much color it comes out in big circles you can kind of separate it so it's easier to get on your fork. I say probably depends on how big the head of the radicchio is this is relatively big one so I'm going to use about 1/2 of it but a smaller head you might end up using the whole thing. And then an endive this is an endive it kind of looks a little nerf football, I'll cut off the end part so we don't get any of that and I like to keep it in these bigger pieces this one is kind of big I might cut these in half, these are a little bit bigger. So I'll take off a few of these leaves and again this one of those things they might come bigger sometimes they come smaller, this one is a little bit of a bigger one, so I'm going to cut it down the middle, ya that's prettier. Cut it down the middle and sort of toss them in and what's good about these is it comes almost like a boat so when you have your dressing it kind of pulls in there and you really get good bites. A few more I think I'll cut these in half to I think they're a little large, it depends on personal taste if you really like endive maybe you can add a little more if you really like arugula add a little more of that. But all 3 of them the red the green and then the yellow and white they go so well together, toss it up a little bit incorporate all that together, then I love to shave on some Parmesan cheese. So I have a wedge and a vegetable peeler is what I like to use and nice long strips, it's always a great bite when you get the strips of Parmesan, I could just eat pieces of Parmesan right off the thing here. Really easy with the vegetable peeler so once there's enough in there to your taste the salad is ready to go and now we will make our own homemade dressing."