This is the first of 100 “real” salads to come.   I’ll list the ingredients and any unusual preparation instructions, but this is mostly a documentation of ingredients rather than actual recipes.   It’s meant to amuse and hopefully inspire you.  I hope you’ll sometimes come away from the blog wanting a salad.    I’m very open to your salad ideas and feedback! 

Pizza Sidekick Salad

Pizza makes the best croutons.  Just tear that pizza slice into bite-sized bits and throw it on your greens.  Voila!  You’re eating your greens.  And those greens taste like pizza.  In theory, it makes you eat less pizza.   Depending on your pizza toppings, you don’t even need to do much with the salad itself.  Keep it simple.

Ingredients:

• Fresh leaf lettuce
• Yellow bell pepper, chopped
• Avocado, cubed
• Artichoke hearts, chopped
• Torn up pieces of pizza as croutons (not shown here)
• Dressing: None needed - but oil & vinegar would be great.

This salad was just okay. I actually would like more ingredients than this on a pizza sidekick salad, especially since the pizza was pretty simple already, but it’s what was in my fridge, and it was still pretty refreshing.