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Topic: Salad of the freaking GODS

Gaevren Title: Wat do? Posts: 18,183 Registered: Sep 15, '04 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 17,906 User ID: 967,012	Subject: Salad of the freaking GODS
	I came home from my first day of work today, which I don't think will be as bad as I was anticipating. I was HUNGRY and a salad sounded just perfect to me. Now, I'm not a rabbit food person. I don't even usually go for salads. But today it sounded just perfect. So I started poking through the fridge to see what there was...we always have salad makings because my husband LOVES salads. I realized that I had the ingredients for an epic salad, and here it is. It was every bit as delicious as it seemed it would be in my head. Here is how I made it. Om nom nom nom. 1 to 2 cups lettuce half a cucumber, sliced 1 tbsp butter black olives (I used whole olives sliced in half) half an onion, sliced (I used a red onion) 10 grape or cherry tomatoes, cut in half 3 slices of bacon, cooked and cut into pieces. I seasoned our bacon so it was spicy, the way we like it, but you probably wouldn't even need to do that, although it really helps imo! Doesn't have to be spicy though. Combine lettuce and cucumbers in a bowl and put back in the fridge to keep cold. I oven-baked my bacon. It eliminates dishes and splatter since I just put the bacon on tin foil. Place bacon slices on tin foil and bake at 350 for 15 minutes, or until the bacon is cooked through and as crispy as you like it. 15 minutes got my bacon crispy around the edges but not all the way through. While the bacon is cooking, melt the butter in a pan on medium low heat. Add the onion slices and saute until they begin to soften, but not completely! You don't want soggy onions here, the middles should still be slightly crunchy. When the onions are done, add the olives and tomatoes and stir together about one minute, just enough so that the olives and tomatoes are warmed up but not really cooked. Remove the pan from the heat and remove the bacon from the oven. Cut the bacon into 1 inch pieces (I just used kitchen shears, but be careful with the hot bacon!) and pretty much just dump the bacon and onion/tomato/olive mixture into the bowl with the lettuce and cucumbers. Don't even drain the bacon. Mix up the salad ingredients thoroughly- the bacon grease and onion butter will help coat the lettuce leaves and make it extremely tasty. It's not even that much in the way of fats, but fats on your salad are GOOD. Your body NEEDS those dietary fats to absorb the fat-soluble vitamins found in greens. Eat immediately and enjoy!! -----signature----- There are no automatic doors, just very polite ninjas
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-Foxy- Title: Moderator Ãœber Brat Posts: 110,094 Registered: May 29, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 107,357 User ID: 683,944	Subject: Salad of the freaking GODS
	looks good. and hot bacon grease is found in several dressings. its a natural! -----signature----- Long suffering vassal to Xarkath, U.P. - Forever and ever
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Silverwuf Title: Have trike will babble Posts: 32,958 Registered: Jul 5, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 32,296 User ID: 225,902	Subject: Salad of the freaking GODS
	That looks awesome! Silver -----signature----- Women who behave themselves rarely make history. My Give-A-Damn's Busted. http://www.thewufs.com/2003venture/motortrike.htm
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pkhere Title: Yes, they are real Posts: 54,387 Registered: Sep 4, '03 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 53,345 User ID: 835,741	Subject: Salad of the freaking GODS
	olives everything else would be delish! -----signature----- "I wish I could lag during sex." - Reapist Jezza, so you know, you've been moved to the number 1 spot of my list of people with horrible taste on the board. -Wolfgar-
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GriffinShadowfeather Title: Posts: 0 Registered: ???? Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 0 User ID: 664,522	Subject: Salad of the freaking GODS
	Looks Great!! -----signature-----
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Shenron_ Posts: 8,665 Registered: Dec 8, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 6,513 User ID: 746,590	Subject: Salad of the freaking GODS
	that does look pretty damn good -----signature----- (none)
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Obscuremarracus Posts: 25 Registered: Jul 28, '10 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 25 User ID: 1,399,265	Subject: Salad of the freaking GODS
	Looks so good and juicy.. -----signature----- -Public Enemies- now renamed to -Love Bites- Marracus Mate 50 Cleric in -Public Enemies- 50 Druid in -Random Roleplayers-
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solid3 Title: Jagshemash! Posts: 17,172 Registered: Apr 18, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 16,331 User ID: 669,863	Subject: Salad of the freaking GODS
	Gaevren posted: fats on your salad are GOOD. Your body NEEDS those dietary fats to absorb the fat-soluble vitamins found in greens. Bacon grease and butter are saturated fats, which you never need. Just because you read that some fats are healthy doesn't mean you should go around dumping bacon grease and butter on your salads thinking you're doing yourself a favor. Spend a couple of minutes and learn the different between monounsaturated fats, polyunsaturated fats and your standard saturated fat. -----signature----- (none)
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NonOffensiveName Title: Touching people in special places all day long Posts: 27,882 Registered: Oct 7, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 27,531 User ID: 444,059	Subject: Salad of the freaking GODS
	solid3 posted: Gaevren posted: fats on your salad are GOOD. Your body NEEDS those dietary fats to absorb the fat-soluble vitamins found in greens. Bacon grease and butter are saturated fats, which you never need. Just because you read that some fats are healthy doesn't mean you should go around dumping bacon grease and butter on your salads thinking you're doing yourself a favor. Spend a couple of minutes and learn the different between monounsaturated fats, polyunsaturated fats and your standard saturated fat. Yeah I would tend to agree, although I've not done search of fats myself, it would seem that the bacon and butter would be counter intuitive to having a salad. Granted if someone can point me somewhere that I am wrong, I will be the first to admit it. I would love to have butter and bacon in my salad and be guilt free about it! lol That said, the salad does look delicious! -----signature----- Q: What's an AW? A: A whore that likes attention
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Gaevren Title: Wat do? Posts: 18,183 Registered: Sep 15, '04 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 17,906 User ID: 967,012	Subject: Salad of the freaking GODS
	You do need saturated fats, in addition to un (non?) saturated fats. The only kind of fats your body never never never needs are fake, aka trans, fats. You do not have to acquire saturated fats through animal sources, although that is the most common source. Coconut oil is another good source, albeit expensive. These are things I learned in my college nutrition course, and which research today is backing up. Conventional research, not whackjob hippie research. That doesn't mean you should run out and eat nothing but bacon grease. But the fats in this salad, if you split it between two people (which is how big it is) would equal about 20-25% of your daily fat intake limit. That's really not so bad. And I couldn't eat more than half of it. -----signature----- There are no automatic doors, just very polite ninjas
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Eternal_Midnight Posts: 19,580 Registered: May 11, '00 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 15,756 User ID: 24,262	Subject: Salad of the freaking GODS
	This would turn to poop pretty quickly I imagine, even by the end of the salad I would think. You've got so much grease and fat in your 'dressing' that unless it stays a warm salad, it would turn into gross in about 5 minutes. All that fat will start to congeal the minutes you combine it with all that cold salad and cucumber. Add some feta cheese into your recipe and you've got basically a classic warm greek salad. -----signature----- We have not inherited the Earth from our parents, we have borrowed it from our children.
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