The following salads are little experiments of mine that may not sound the most conventional, but sometimes, after a week of hard testing, inspiration will come in the strangest ways.
The Lean, Mean, Red, and Green
If you are hard pressed for a salad idea, pick some colors, and make a masterpiece. Obviously here, I decided to go with red and green. So, I made a list of my favorite red and green things that could go on a salad that I could easily get: craisins, grapes, tomatoes, avocadoes, and raspberry vinegrette. I added some chicken and sunflower seeds to provide protein.
Taco Salad Twist
The taco salad is probably one of my favorites. Earlier in the week, I made some crockpot salsa chicken (which will be featured later) and was thinking of my visit to Costa Rica a few years ago. It seemed that they would put a fried egg randomly with your food, so I thought with a shrug, "Why not?"
The egg was kind of two experiments. 1: an egg on a salad that isn't egg salad. 2: seasoning the egg with something other than salt, pepper, and Cavender's. I wanted to match the spicy flavors of the chicken on the egg, so I used cilantro, chili powder, cavender's, and cinnamon. Yes, you read correctly, cinnamon. The concoction was a surprising success! (At least, to my easily pleased taste buds). In fact, I've taken to putting cinnamon on my fried eggs now simply because I liked the way the warm spice mixed with the neutral egg.
So, this salad's final make up is: spring mix lettuce, salsa chicken, olives, cilantro, spiced fried egg, and a dollop of light sour cream. yum yum!
