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March 22, 2005
What's this salad?
Several of us had lunch at Antonia's today. She had me bring salad, so I made my variant of the one Mom makes with parmesan, walnuts, tomato juice, and some other ingredients. The dressing for a head of lettuce was (approximately -- I really only measure exactly when baking):
1/3 cup wine vinegar 2/3 cup salad oil 1 large shallot, finely chopped 2 tbsp. Maggi Arome 2 tbsp. liquid from pickled garlic Freshly ground pepper Walnut meats Grated parmesan
Maggi Arome is one of those seasonings based on soy sauce with other flavors that give it a sort of nutty taste in salad dressing. I pickled the garlic cloves in sugar water and vinegar plus Alsatian pickling spices (mustard seed, coriander, bay leaves, red pepper, anise, etc.).
What's the name of this salad?
By the way, the same vinagrette (without the walnuts and parmesan) works quite well over grated carrots with a little celery salt, which is the other salad I brought.
Posted by Mark at March 22, 2005 09:14 PM