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03 March 2011

Salad Question So I'm making a salad of Kentucky Prosciutto, arugala, pine nuts, and balsamic vinegar. I feel like it needs one other thing ... But what?

post by: The Whelk at: 08:49 | 22 comments

Pear?

posted by rainbaby 03 March | 08:51

Tasty cheese? A little bit of gorgonzola or goat's cheese?

posted by altolinguistic 03 March | 08:53

Definitely some kind of fruit. Pork goes well with sweet apples. I'd avoid something like Granny Smith for being too tart, though. Flavorful yet sweet is what I'd go for. Honeycrisp maybe?

posted by Stewriffic 03 March | 08:56

Yeah, fruit. Less for the taste (you've got a couple strong flavours there) and more for the textural quality.

posted by gaspode 03 March | 09:06

gaspode, I just heard you say textrual quality in my head. You're accent is so awesome!

posted by rainbaby 03 March | 09:10

Pear/apple AND cheese. Shaved parm? Crumbled bleu?

posted by fancyoats 03 March | 09:26

Hm, any of the following...

Roasted red peppers
Ripe cantaloupe
Blanched asparagus
A few chopped kalamata olives (not too much or you'll have a pretty salty salad)
thinly shaved salad turnips

...agree on the blue cheese or apple (but not if you use cantaloupe, which is heavenly with proscuitto)

posted by Miko 03 March | 09:50

pomegranate!

posted by jessamyn 03 March | 09:56

Salad, so very healthy.

This thread has made me want a roasted red pepper, goat cheese and prosciutto pizza. Pizza, damn it!

posted by gaspode 03 March | 10:17

Dried cranberries!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 March | 10:19

You have salty prosciutto, savory pine nuts, savory/bitter arugula, sweet/sour balsamic.

You can add spicy - hot red pepper flakes, sweet - carrots, crunch - romaine lettuce. Or all of them, which is what I'd do.

what you really need is company, and now that you've made us all hungry, I think you should invite us over.

posted by theora55 03 March | 10:25

I'm with altolinguistic--goat cheese.

posted by fogovonslack 03 March | 12:23

I agree with the fruit people, and I'd go for dried cranberries or cherries.

posted by Madamina 03 March | 14:59

This thread has made me want a roasted red pepper, goat cheese and prosciutto pizza.

I'm leaving shortly for dinner at Chadra Mezza, home of the best vegetarian pizza in town. I think I might get exactly that.

posted by Doohickie 03 March | 18:49

Voting for the pear here. The combo of salt and sweet is hard to beat. I think cheese would be overkill but if you use it I'd do something white, mild and soft.

posted by bearwife 03 March | 19:41

I went with the Fruit People on this cause

1) Tomorrow is a BIG CHEESE day, we're making Super Mac And Cheese - and I think cheese would overpower the pine-nuts. (although a red pepper goat cheese prosciutto thing sounds divine)
2) I eat dried cranberries for breakfast and ....bored
3) Pear sounds wonderful but I have a bad track record with picking good pears at market, they're always a week too hard.

So I went with what I knew - Apples! And this is what it looked like

TAH DAH

posted by The Whelk 03 March | 21:13

FINAL REPORT:

Completely delish. They wanted more.

The juice from when you bit into the apple really complimented the saltiness of the prosciutto. A+ METACHAT BUNNIES, A +.

posted by The Whelk 03 March | 21:56

feta

posted by tortillathehun 03 March | 23:17

Wait...Kentucky Prosciutto?
Is that in the same epicurean category as Southern Indiana Caviar?

posted by Thorzdad 04 March | 06:19

My market has a great source on American hog meat, the Iowa panfishes is to die for.

posted by The Whelk 04 March | 09:56

Er, panchetta, pork cheeks, stupid auto correct.

posted by The Whelk 04 March | 10:01

Also, what? You don't think they can raise hogs in Kentucky? I am led to believe it's one of the things they do.

posted by The Whelk 04 March | 11:55

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