Friday, August 12, 2011

Cobb Salad















I have tried giving blue cheese a fair chance. I have tried it multiple times, in multiple things and each and every time it has left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Literally. The entire time that I ate this salad I couldn't help but think it would be so much better if I had made it with feta instead. Feta is the greatest, whereas blue cheese tastes like feet.
If you like the taste of feet, feel free to keep the blue cheese in this salad, but if you would rather eat something delicious swap it for feta.

Cobb Salad
Adapted from Everyday Food (Of course)
Serves 4

Ingredients:
meat from 1/2 a rotisserie chicken
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
course salt and pepper
2 hard-cooked large eggs
4 cups shredded romaine lettuce (from 1 large head)
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
8 slices cooked bacon, crumbled
2 plum tomatoes, roughly chopped
4 ounces blue cheese, crumbled (1 cup)
1 avocado, pitted, peeled and diced medium

Directions:
1) Shred the meat from the chicken and quarter the eggs.
2) In a large bowl, combine lettuce, lemon juice, and oil. Season with salt and pepper, toss to combine and top with eggs, bacon, tomatoes, cheese, avocado and chicken.

Bacon and avocado may be one of my all time favorite combinations. They are delicious together. As I mentioned earlier, I would have swapped the blue cheese for feta, but also I found the salad dressing to be fairly bland. I think it's because there is so little of it. Next time I would probably make it with 2.5 tbsp lemon juice, and 2.5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil.
Overall, a tasty salad which is a surprisingly filling meal.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Literally, or actually?

Rebekah A.d. said...

I hate you. Literally.