food ack (aka, 'hey, you're totally not kale')

[moominmolly]

I love crazy flavorful greens I can cook, but I'm kind of eh on lettuce. What do I do with it? Say "salad" and I kick you.

EDIT: Wraps! Of course! You are genius.

Comments

[dpolicar]

I don't much care for it myself, so I hear you.
Wraps, as mentioned.
Chopped fine and added to rice works pretty well.
Restaurants always seem to use it as a garnish... the traditional "bed of lettuce"... presumably as an admission that it isn't really food. (grins)
Salad. (ow!)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

presumably as an admission that it isn't really food.

Right! My eating style at home is, shall we say, low-frill; the idea of garnishing it with lettuce for visual appeal makes me giggle.

Salad. (ow!)

Not as much as that, though.

Chopped fine and added to rice

I wonder what else it would be good added to? I'm all about cold lentil salads right now, and I could see that working. Maybe some kind of black bean thing, too... hmm! White rice usually kind of makes me want to cry with its extreme dullness, but brown rice and diced lettuce with some citrusy peppery dressing might be good.

[dbang.livejournal.com]

If it's crispy sort of lettuce, chop it up and add it to a non-lettuce type salad...chicken or egg or whatever.

Also I enjoy the spines of crispy romaine lettuce in place of celery for snacks...spread with cream cheese or whatever.

Non-crispy lettuce I pretty much have no use for.

[dpolicar]

(nods) You _can_ use lettuce pretty much anywhere you'd use baby spinach, I would think... stews, casseroles, etc... but why on Earth would you not use baby spinach instead?

I hear some people even put it in sandwiches.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

One word: FARMSHARE. Okay, maybe a word and a half. Still.

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm all about cold lentil salads right now, and I could see that working.

Yeah, somehow, putting beans on top kind of disguises the salad-ness for me, and basically all bean salads are ok over stuff. I made and liked this one recently.