Recipe of the Week: Caesar Salad
by Kelly Rossiter, Toronto on 12.21.07
Image credit:roboppy
With the dinners and parties we've been attending over the past week, there hasn't been an awful lot of cooking going on in our household and I just wasn't sure what I would write about this week.
Last night we vacated our premises so our daughter could have her friends over for a Christmas party. After a movie we had a light dinner at a little Italian restaurant. I had a Caesar salad, and like most of these restaurant salads I've had it was alright, but not fabulous. Why can't restaurants make a really good Caesar? It's really not that hard. So I'm going to share my Caesar recipe with you and see how it stacks up against your local trattoria.
Caesar Salad
2 cloves of garlic
1 anchovy fillet
1 tbsp olive oil
2 egg yolks
3 tbsp dijon mustard
juice of 1/4 lemon
1 dash tobasco
1 head Romaine lettuce, washed and torn into bite size pieces
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
3 slices cooked bacon (optional)
1. In a large bowl crush garlic until it is a paste.
2. Add each ingredient mixing after each addition.
3. Add lettuce and toss until well coated.
4. Add bacon if using. You can also add croutons if you like.
And how exactly is this green? (Besides the colour of the leaves, of course.)
Um.. Yeah, Romaine Lettuce is OUT OF SEASON. So... this 'green' recipe is being driven in a truck up from Mexico to grace your holiday plates.
Don't get me wrong, I love Caesar Salad - it's delicious, it's just the wrong time of the year.
The point of green is life. Green is a means to an end, not the end itself. The point of life is not green, the point of life is life. Viva la Caesar!
...any time of year.
Agreed, this post is not green, eggs are not a green commodity and neither are anchovies. And certainly the bacon option should have been left off. Pig farming is absolutely not eco!!!
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/newsletter/hog_farms.htm
This post turns me off.
well for those of us that live on islands this is a very green post. Whilst we would have to substitute Romain lettuce for local, as well as the bacon - we can get most of the products from our backyard
thanks for the recipe
Being Green is not being chauvinist. Half of the planet is in summer. Romaine lettuce is definitely in season where I live. AND I love Caesar Salad to distraction, and I definitely think it is green to make your own food, grow your own food and be involved with your own food in any way possible.
Thank you Karen. For thinking critically, that is. The reason a vast majority of people take such a strong opposition to any "movement" is that a large percentage of those involved with a movement can't think to save their lives. That includes environmentalism, and vegetarianism.
Who is going to harp on people for using mustard? It probably isn't a local crop either.
This recipe uses a single anchovy fillet. It shouldn't be compared to that thanksgiving roast comprised of a dozen different species of birds.