L is for lettuce, in this case Romaine.I stopped buying iceberg lettuce when I heard it had absolutely no nutritional value, though I'm not quite sure I believe it. Tonight we had cucumbers, yellow bell peppers, and a few grape tomatoes on our salad, and there were sweet red onions on the table along with Romano cheese.
When I grow lettuce for salads, I plant red and green leaf lettuce and spinach. It goes directly from the garden into my salad, unless, of course, I make my garden under the wires where the birds like to perch... Blech! In that case I forgo the homegrown stuff and decide to find a different place to acquire my lettuce.
Pass the Cracked Pepper Ranch, please. Croutons? No thank you. Not this time. How about you?
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iceberg lettuce is BORING! ate it all my childhood; never had romaine until I was an adult.
ReplyDeleteROG, ABC Wednesday team
We switched out iceberg, too! We like romaine or that mesclun mix. Yum.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness that salad looks delish... I will have to share a funny story on my blog sometime about Romaine lettuce.
ReplyDeleteLove bell pepper and red onions, and grape tomatoes....I'll take Ranch please.
Healthy choice for L.
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I don't think I've bought iceberg lettuce since Dave and I got married. We like the healthier lettuces. Your salad looks delicious! Sure, I'll have a few croutons please! :9
ReplyDeleteI don't mind iceberg lettuce in sandwiches just for a bit of colour and crunch. But there is nothing like a good old-fashioned caesar salad made with the right kind of lettuce - WITH the croutons, thank you very much. LOL
ReplyDeleteLeslie
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Romaine is my favorite lettuce. It like how its crisp. I can't believe that there's no nutritional value in iceberg either. If anything there is water and that counts. Maybe why iceberg salad tastes so refeshing on a hot day.
ReplyDeleteYour salad looks so yummy!! We have found ourselves to be eating quite a bit of salad these days;-)
ReplyDeleteHeather, I am afraid I am not eating enough salad... :P
ReplyDeleteAnybody know why iceberg became the lettuce of our childhoods in the US? Like everyone else I knew no other lettuce for too many years. And Martha, there is nothing better than a salad straight out of the garden!
ReplyDeleteThanks for a great L-contribution,
HelenMac, ABC Wednesday team
The salad looks luscious. I too do not use icebeg anymore once I heard it had little nutritional content. I usually use romaine or baby green spring mixes.
ReplyDelete*sigh* I still love iceberg lettuce...
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