Great recipe, Nice color, great taste, perfect for dinner parties.

You have to add the sesame seeds or it is just not the same. I forgot how easy a regular tossed salad was. My hubby loved it!

I have made this salad about 15 times now and everyone always LOVES it. I do not use any sesame seeds and only about 1/2 the olives. If you use bagged lettuce it is super quick to prepare.

Everyone, including I, liked/ likes this. Assembly is easy.

I made this salad for company and it was OK. i rinsed the lettuce (to clean it) and, as a result, it was REALLY soggy. I should have bought a bag of pre-washed lettuce, but I was too cheap.... I used grape tomatoes instead of cherry ones and cut the larger ones in half. I used Asagio cheese (picked up the wrong package...) and didn't notice a difference. I just used Romaine lettuce. Toasting the sesame seeds and almonds really makes a difference and is worth the extra effort (but I HATE toasting b/c I always burn!). Try this salad with Newman's basalmic. Ok, but not great, probably b/c of the sogginess, but still won't likely make again. Thanks anyways.

I served this to a family of about 20. This included young children. I didn't put the dressing on it; instead I bought a few different dressings and let everyone pick their favorite. Everyone loved it. It was so good that three people took home leftovers. It's not often in my family that salad is kept as a leftover.

Had to substitute a few items. Only had Roma tomatoes,whole almonds on hand and parmesan cheese(no mushrooms).I finely chopped the almonds and adjusted the amount, thinly sliced the tomatoes and used parmesan cheese. Turned out great. Can't wait to make this again when I have all of the ingredients.

We took this to a dinner last night and everyone said that it was great. We agreed. It was so good last night we are making it again tonight!!! Thanks for a great recipe.

This was a very good salad. Easy and everyone loved it. I used Paul Newman's Balsamic and parmesan instead of romano cheese, Would make it again and again.

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!! I have taken this salad to so many parties and it is always a big hit. There is never any left!! I have made this exactly the way the recipe reads except for I use all romaine lettuce and Paul Newman's Italian Dressing.

I really enjoyed this the first time I made it and my family like the change to the every day salad. It's become a regular at our weekend table and whenever we have guests over for dinner

This was a pretty good recipe though it takes some time considering you have to cook the almonds and sesame seeds. I used regular (larger sized (tomatoes) & omitted the red leaf lettuce because I didn't have on hand, also I used regular white onions that had been previously frozen & they worked out just fine. I served with a Reuben Brat recipe not on this site.

The only things I changed were: I added alvacado and I left out sesame seeds because I didn't have any. I served it at a church dinner and it was a huge it.

This was good, but I don't know if I'll ever make it again. If I do, I'll probably leave out the olives (I followed another review and bought kalamata olives from the olive bar at the store) and they were far too salty...guess they must be an acquired taste, one that I don't have. Save the olives, I actually thought this was really good. I bought flavored "Italian Parmesan" almonds from the store, couldn't find sesame seeds so I left them out, and served it with Litehouse balsamic vinaigrette. Nothing to sing about, but definitely not a terrible salad, either.

I made this for a dinner party, and I am not a cook. I made this exactly how the recipe stated (except, I excluded the almonds, but I think I will add them next time), and it was extremely easy to make and a huge hit. It was the first dish to disappear.

I've made this salad for my family and friends many times. It always gets rave reviews.