Two Years Ago: Sesame Crusted Bristol Bay Wild Sockeye Salmon (PS: I'm hosting an awesome Wild Salmon dinner October 5th in Ithaca, NY with my Food Network Co-Star Emma Frisch! Check it out and purchase tickets here. One Year Ago: I was livin' it up in Italy! Torino, Italy If you like a classic wedge salad, you're going to LOVE this one. I've swapped out the heavy mayonnaise-based dressing for a much lighter, much zippier blue cheese vinaigrette. I like using romaine because it has more flavor and more nutrition than iceberg, plus, it holds up really well on the grill. You get some charred and slightly wilted pieces in addition to crisp and juicy pieces for a really awesome textural contrast. Have you ever had grilled lettuce before? It seems counterintuitive and odd, but it totally works. In fact, I think it has even more flavor. Salad 2 heads of romaine 1 cups halved or quartered cherry tomatoes, depending on their size cup chopped seeded cucumber (about medium garden cucumber). This version is far from being the healthiest salad out there, but it's certainly a step up from the original and still has the same feel and flavor. They were tasty, but not exactly the kind of salad that could be classified as "healthy". Creamy blue cheese dressing would get ladled all over, then topped with diced tomatoes, bacon bits, and more blue cheese crumbles. We would go to the salad station and plop a big hunk of iceberg onto a plate, then break it open a bit in the middle. All entrees were served with a wedge salad, and it was us, the servers, who actually had to assemble them in the kitchen. I've been smitten with wedge salads ever since I worked at a Sullivan's Steakhouse in college. Sidebar: you should always try to avoid sugar when you're sick because it feeds the bacteria/virus and will prolong their nasty effects. Today is all about salad, which, no, is nothing like cake, but it's a damn delicious salad and much better for overcoming a head cold than a pile of sugar. There will be many more opportunities for cake in the future, but right now I'm hungry and definitely wish I had some leftover cake in the fridge. So I treated myself by taking the day off to recover and regroup and celebrate my last hours on earth as a 31-year-old. But last week I came down with the first - and hopefully last - cold of the season and that cake never got made. I had big intentions of making a super duper awesome birthday cake and posting the recipe on Tuesday - because! - it was my birthday. But, sometimes life gets in the way, and this week that was definitely the case. Hello! Did you miss me this week? Did you even notice I skipped my usual Tuesday post? When I set out to do this whole blogging thing seriously, I committed to posting twice a week and I've stuck with it for the most part. This take on the classic steakhouse wedge salad uses romaine instead of iceberg, is grilled for more flavor, loaded with crispy bacon and juicy tomatoes, plus it's lighter thanks to a blue cheese vinaigrette!
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