Food Experiment #17 is "Salad and Cereal"
Stop making gagging noises and hear me out! It's not what you think at all =P
I took a regular mixed greens salad, did my current obsession of blue cheese and a lite Cesar dressing. But i wanted MORE! So i dug deep into my fridge and found crushed almonds, SCORE! I started eating it and was like "i need sweetness" so i went back to the fridge and pulled out some of my blueberry syrup to drizzle over but i felt i have done that enough already last week i needed volume with this salad. Back to the fridge and found nothing of interest. Then i looked up and saw my Special K Blue Berry cereal! BINGO!!! I love grinding up healthy cereals as toppings on just about anything and everything so this wasn't a stretch for me at all. I took 2 handfuls of my yummy cereal and crushed it in my hands, sprinkling it on top of my salad. True i did ponder how it would taste with the Cesar salad dressing but im a rebel with food so it didn't scare me off at all. First fork full was good but i didn't taste any dressing...so i dug deeper. And BOOM there it was, dressing, cereal, blue cheese, almonds and yes salad. OMG SO DELISH!
I pranced around with accomplishment and joy chowing down on my latest creation. Now i am eating an Asian Pear to cover my fruit needs and a bottle of Aquafina to stay hydrated. I feel awesome! I can't wait to create another salad experiment!
If you dare to try it, let me know how it goes! Next time i will give the low down on my apples and cereal morning, noon and night delish creation!
I love the concept of experimenting w/food. As a kid I was a very picky eater but now as an adult I've grown to LOVE and appreciate food for what it is. I'm a little hesitant though to the idea of mixing sweet w/ my salad. I LOVE SALADS and don't really want to change the flavor profile too much but I might try it w/the dry cereal on top but the syrup is to Big of a leap for me. Lol :)
ReplyDeletehaha Tenisha yeah, i can understand the fear of mixing the syrup but how do you think raspberry and all those fruit style of dressings are made? take a lil bit of Italian dressing (2 table spoons) in a bowl, mix your fave fruit syrup in there (1 teaspoon to start) and mix it with a spoon. Taste and see how you like it. if you want more bitterness then don't add anymore. If you want more sweetness then add a lil more syrup. If you don't like it at all then you didn't waste any salad =P You gotta watch some Foodnetwork Iron Chef and you will get ideas and braver lol
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