Questions tagged [salad]
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Miracle whip vs. Mayonnaise for Pasta or Potato salad
I am wondering if anybody knows if Miracle whip adds more moisture to your pasta salad vs Mayo. Mine always seems to be swimming in liquid a day later. Also I was thinking that boiling the pasta a ...
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Do I need to refridgerate home made salad dressing? [duplicate]
I made a salad dressing with olive oil, apple cider vinegar, and salt. Is it necessary to refridgerate this dressing?
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How long does store bought ranch dressing last once opened and does it need to be refrigerated? [duplicate]
once we open the bottle and reseal with our own bottle would it need to be refrigerated? we are looking to buy in bulk and rebottle the dressing.
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Can German potato salad be served cold?
I usually make the mayonnaise type potato salad which is served cold. I wanted to try German but I want to serve it cold. Recipes I found serve it warm.
No problem is obvious to me, what am I missing?
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Better methods for meal-prepping salads? [duplicate]
Every time I've tried to prepare salads for the week, they always go bad. I meal prep on Sunday and make 5 days worth of meals. I've been doing this for months but salads always give me trouble. ...
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What's this salad of gray lumps in white dressing?
I can identify the green lettuce at the bottom, but not the physical matter under the red maraschino cherry. I happened upon this on Open Rice for a popular Western cuisine restaurant in Central, Hong ...
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Do I need to rip the leaves off mint?
I enjoy putting a bunch of mint leaves into my salads, but I'm lazy and I get bored tearing the leaves off the stems to put into my salad. I am tempted to take the entire bunch of mint and chop it up,...
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Do storms influence the souring of dishes?
The story/lore passed from generation to generation is about the influence of a storm on some dishes. Allegedly, they sour once the storm hits. This holds especially when the dish is kept in a metal ...
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What is the secret to avoid bitter-tasting rapini?
At a certain pick-your-own-food-and-stamp-your-card-then-pay-at-the-exit restaurant, the salad bar includes a delectable rapini, even though it looks like it is prepared with nothing more than ...
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My cheese congealed and I don’t know why?
I mixed up a salad in a glass container I added dressing and goat cheese crumbles and shook it up. The next day when I went to eat it all the cheese ended up in a big congealed lump in the bottom of ...
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Are there any tools / "life hacks" to cut sphere-shaped potatoes and carrots?
Salad Olivier - The modern version contains peas, potatoes, carrot, eggs, etc.
It would be cool to cut everything into same-size spheres...
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Bitter tasting salad
I've noticed that sometimes when eating salad the first bite can taste quite bitter. Is this just the natural flavour of particular leaves and my palate adjusting to it?
Is there a possibility it's ...
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Is it ok according to established practice to serve a salad in addition to crudités?
I'm going to have a party and I was wondering if it is ok to serve both or if just one or the other should be served.
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How to keep onions from sinking in a salad
How to keep onions from sinking in a salad?
I like raw and cooked onions.
I like raw onions in a lot of salads but the problem is diced onions end up in the bottom of the bowl.
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I've put too much onion on my macaroni salad and it overwhelms other ingredients. Is there a way to tame down the onion taste?
I made the mistake of putting all of the chopped onion in my macaroni salad before testing it. Now the onion taste overwhelms all the other ingredients. Any easy way to tame down the onion taste?
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Does red wine vinegar and red vinegar taste same?
I am going to cook salad for my lunch, I checked a for recipes. I just eat halal food and wine is not halaf, so I am going to use red vinegar (which I don't know even exist) instead of red wine ...
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Is Garden salad still good if it's past the best by date?
I have an unopened bag of garden salad (lettuce, carrots and red cabbage) That is 9 days past the "Best if used by" date. I haven't opened it yet. It still seems crisp when I squeeze it and I don't ...
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How to release pungence out of onion for salads without cooking?
I have been making a pretty standard Mediterranean-style potato salad but replacing the standard vinegar with lemon juice, which I like better. However, I noticed that, when used, red wine vinegar ...
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How to make olives to be used in salad? [closed]
Hey i was trying something different, and want to serve olives as salad but don't know how to make that salty thing to be included in salad.
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what should I do with overgrown beautiful clusters of Chia seed leaves? [duplicate]
A few weeks ago I soaked Chia Seeds to add to my daily smoothie the following morning.However, this got forgotten to add and left over for the next day. Instead of throwing away in the trash bin, I ...
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How to marinate tofu for my mint & lemon juice couscous salad?
How could I marinate my tofu such that it fits well with my couscous salad which is seasoned with mint and lemon juice, and also contains cucumber, tomato and bell pepper and onions?
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Keeping pre-cooked asparagus crisp
I would like to pre-blanch some asparagus to dress and serve later as a salad. Will it stay crisp?
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Salad packaged with raw meat: is it safe?
Sometimes I see in supermarkets (in Italy) packages in which rocket salad is sold together with raw beef, like in this picture:
This is clearly meant to be prepared in the form of tagliata con rucola,...
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How do I tone down onion sharpness already in the chicken salad?
How do I tone down onion sharpness already in the chicken salad? It asked for red onion, which I didn't have so I used the only thing I had, shallot. I used far less than indicated. I have already ...
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Making my salads a little better [closed]
I eat a lot of salads for lunch. It's not hard for them to taste bland because I don't use creamy dressings and try to use healthy greens.
Here is an example of a typical salad I make: Spring mix, ...
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Is it possible to freeze salad dressing
Is it ok to freeze Vinegarette Dressings. Need to take on a flight for a friend. Label says keep refrigerated so would this be ok for a 12hr flt in checked luggage in a insulated freezer bag.
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What factors to consider for a long lasting salad?
I'd like to make salad in bulk for the week ahead on a weekend, which I will store at home in the fridge, to take to work. My gut feel is that what I'd typically put in salad (leaves, tomatoes, ...
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re:salad dressing shelf storage [duplicate]
can I process salad dressing for shelf life in a water bath or pressure canner and if I can how long is the process time, I can't find out anything about it please help.
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Can I eat Chia leaves?
Just out of curiousity I planted some Chia seeds in a pot. Turned out they grow like crazy and seem pretty undemanding.
Now I also noticed that they smell quite nicely, a bit like basil and wondered ...
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differences in caper berry seeds
I use caper berries in salad sometimes, but honestly I mainly like to just eat them straight out of the jar. I've noticed that in a single jar, each berry has 1 of three types of seeds inside:
Black ...
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Why is the texture of the pasta in a store-bought pasta salad different to the texture of pasta I've cooked at home?
So I've bought a store-made pasta salad and I've tried to recreate it at home.
It consists of Penne and a tomato dressing, fairly simple, however no matter how hard I try I can't emulate the exact ...
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Best tool for quickly cutting vegetables into a salad?
I like eating a salad for lunch, but would like to somehow optimize the time it takes to cut the vegetables. My salad usually contains tomatoes, cucumbers, bell pepper, carrot, etc.
I could buy an ...
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Onion salad goes wet and bitter
I've been going to this indian restaurant that makes this fantastic onion salad, which is essentially small cuts of white and red onion, cucumber, tomato, garnished with mint leaves, coriander leaves ...
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Alternatives to massaging fresh kale?
I plan on making a raw kale salad for a large group and was wondering if there is another technique besides massaging it with my hands, which will likely get sore after breaking down a large quantity ...
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How to get rid of goitrogens from goitrogenic foods without cooking?
Cruciferous vegetables like cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, broccolini, cauliflower, mustard greens, kale, turnips, and collard greens contain goitrogens. Is there a way to get rid of these ...
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Lemon juice and kale/green leaf lettuce salad produces a very horseradish-y taste and smell
This is the strangest thing I've ever experienced with food. I have a salad, a kale and green leaf lettuce salad, sprinkled with lemon juice. As I'm eating it, when the lemon juice and kale leaves ...
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Name of the sauce/salad eaten with roast dinners up north UK
Its a sauce that contains lettuce and vinegar to eat with roast dinner and can be eaten with chips and cold meat in Newcastle, UK.
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How to thicken garlic dressing
Nineteen times out of twenty when I make a salad dressing from olive oil, salt, dill, garlic and apple cider vinegar, blended in a pint measuring cup with an electric powered hand mixer, it comes out ...
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How oil changes the taste of salads?
Almost every salad recipes I've read needs some oil. What's its effect on vegetables? How does it change the flavor?
If oil is not used for the taste, why is it necessary for salads?
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Bottling salad dressing with fruit [duplicate]
I'm considering bottling salad dressing but I'm not sure of the shelf life. The ingredients for some are - prunes (or figs), lemon, olive oil, ginger, garlic and water and possibly some xanthan gum.
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What is the shelf life of my home made coleslaw dressing?
I made about a gallon of dressing today from Kraft mayo, apple cider vinegar, and sugar. What is the shelf life of this?
Also, what is the shelf life of balsamic vinegar, salad oil, garlic, honey, ...
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What is this sandwich-salad dish?
I found this open-faced sandwich-like creation in several French-style bakeries in East Asia.
The bottom is a narrow piece of toast.
On top of this toast the dish is a bit like a salad. This salad ...
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Which parts of a spring onion should I use in a pasta salad?
The recipe I've got (Commonsense cooking, page 211) for a pasta salad lists spring onion (green onion/scallions) as an ingredient, but doesn't say which part to use. Should I be using the long, ...
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Why is there liquid in my macaroni salad, potato salad and tuna salad the day after making them?
When I make potato salad, macaroni salad, tuna salad, and sometimes ham salad, it seems like there's always a puddle of excess liquid at the bottom of the storage container the next day.
Does anyone ...
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What are the pros/cons of serving the salad dish before/after the main dish?
I have noticed that most people in the US serve the salad course before the main dinner course. However, my Italian relatives and my boyfriend's Italian relatives serve the salad course after the main ...
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Squeezing excess water from seaweed
I was making seaweed salad for the first time tonight and had just finished soaking my wakame for some time. I rinsed it and put it in a colander, but just couldn't squeeze out very much water. The ...
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Salad ingredients: how to pick them at the market?
I often make salads with lettuce and a few vegetables (perhaps some of carrot, celery, bell pepper, cucumber, tomato, green beans, snap peas). I can plan the ingredients before I go to the grocery ...
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Why must potato salad be placed in the refrigerator before serving?
Many recipes for potato salad state that one should place the salad in the refrigerator after preparing. Some recipes state that one hour is enough. Others ask for several hours. Some recipes even ...
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How should I layer the ingredients in a taco salad?
When making taco salad, I often run into problems:
If the beans or sour cream come in contact with the tortilla chips, the chips will become soggy.
If the cheese comes in contact with hot ingredients,...
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What is the closest substitute for the cheese in urnebes?
Urnebes is a Serbian salad that contains cheese. Searching for recipes for said salad, I noticed that there are a lot of difference in the chosen cheese. Some say feta, some say cottage cheese, some ...
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