This is one of my favorite salads. It is simple, but tasty, and can
go with a casual dinner or elegant one too. It's easy to throw together.
Ingredients:
- Romain lettuce leaves
- tomato
- scallions
- virgin olive oil
- salt to taste
Wash the romaine lettuce leaves. Shake off excess water and blot with
paper towel. Stack three or four on top of each other, then slice down
the middle. Combine both stacks into a tile pile then slice thinly, about
quarter of an inch. Repeat until you have desired amount cut up.
Throw it all in a bowl and salt lightly.
Wash a scallion or two and slice thinly. Add to bowl.
Wash tomato and slice in small wedges (or use cherry tomatoes, whatever
you have on-hand). Add to bowl then salt the tomatoes lightly.
Drizzle 1/16 of a teaspoon of olive oil on the salad. Toss, taste, then
salt again very lightly if needed.
The key to this salad is the tiniest amount of olive oil. The salt brings
out the flavor, and the tomatoes and scallions add the punch.
It sounds simple, but it really tastes great.
