[Sca-cooks] Ceasar Salads, was Valentine's Day dinner.

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

we get good ceaser salads atround here (philly area)
i know my hubby loves them... sadly the garlic allergy precludes my even
trying the dressing.

maybe the atkins diet thing is helping? i mean ceaser salad is one of the
"good" things on Atkins
Kirsten Houseknecht
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Ceasar Salads, was Valentine's Day dinner.


> Also sprach <kingstaste at mindspring.com>:
> >Has anyone else noticed this trend?  I remember very well lots of folks
not
> >liking Ceasar, it being the less-often chosen item on the menu.  Now, it
> >seems to be relegated to the iceberg and creamy-ranch imitations, and
from
> >there bastardized further to mean "it contains lettuce, maybe even
romaine
> >if you're lucky".
> >Christianna
> >shaking my head and feeling like a snob...
>
> Caesar is "in" at the moment. Actually, as with most food trends that
> make into the fast-food lexicon, it was in seven or eight years ago.
> (Can't wait till Wendy's serves something with a clear tomato
> reduction, maybe a lemon-grass-infused oil, can ya?)
>
> But I think the fast-food usage seems generally to include both
> shredded lettuce (even Romaine, sometimes) and some species of bland,
> innocuous creamy dressing.
>
> Now, I _like_ the creamy pseudo-Caesar dressing (sometimes I even had
> to add cream to it, under protest). The stuff I made was pretty
> universally recognized as killer stuff, and far from innocuous, in
> spite of having only one ingredient not in the classic dish.
>
> But that, compared to a cool, crisp Romaine hearts tossed with a
> dressing tossed in the mixing bowl, still slightly warm from coddling
> the egg? No contest.
>
> Adamantius
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