Shortage of lettuces - alternative salads

Hard_Up_Hester

I use thinly sliced white cabbage for winter salad and have done for years, along with grated carrot, I also use chickweed which seems undeterred by the bad weather.

maddiemay

Chopped crunchy apple, celery, nuts of choice and a few sultanas or dried cranberries moistened with orange juice (fresh or from a carton) very refreshing and has a nice crunch.

ancientofdays

Carrot salad to serve with curry:

Grate carrots, add ground black pepper, heat a little oil of your choice, add some black or brown mustard seeds. As soon as the seeds start to pop, pour them, with the oil, over the carrots, add lemon juice.

This is delicious and of course it doesn't have to be limited to serving with curry, just goes with it rather well.

It is a Madhur Jaffrey recipe IIRC

suki1964

Certainly no shortage of lettuce when I was in tesco yesterday. Piled so high they were dropping to the floor. Noticed the icebergs were massive and were imported from USA

Caterina

Ah yes Suki I have noticed more lettuces in the supermarkets again, but icebergs have very little nutrients, they are OK for texture and crunch but I once read that there is more nutrition in a teaspoonful of chopped parsley than in a whole head of iceberg.

However, I have seen Romaine back in w8rose too, so maybe the shortage was only temporary, who knows. Still not seeing any courgettes around, btw, not that I am bothered as I only eat them in season.

Shrimply

Ahh yes those terrible GM crops, that allow natural defences to be introduced from other plants, increasing yield with reduced need for pesticides.

Far better to introduce these genes by crossing the species followed by many generations of introgression , it would take far longer and wouldn't be as efficient but hey at least we'll achieve the same thing without "genetic modification"

Caterina

Shrimply I am 100% with you!

JIL

Beetroot, red onion, walnut and feta cheese

Edam, apple, pasta, walnut, celery and mayo.

Cooked/tinned potatoes, sliced hot dog sausages, sliced gherkin, mayo.

Rice, or couscous with tomatoes, pepper, seeds, cucumber, red onion, feta or hallomi,

These are the sorts of salad I take to work. I am a big fan of the dried crispy onions as a salad topping. Yum.