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Reviewed: Nov. 29, 2009
The proportions of the veggies in this are perfect. I made this for Thanksgiving, but cheated with a bottled balsamic vinaigrette. I lined the sides of the glass bowl with some of the green/red peper rings, and put more on top as a garnish. Normally in our group of friends, people take some salad but don't eat much because they're focused on traditional Thanksgiving side dishes. This year, everyone ate what they took and several had seconds. Great recipe!
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The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 4.47 star rating.
Reviewed: Jul. 25, 2009
This was a great salad! I purchased grapeseed oil and used prewashed Italian mix lettuce. My favorite parts were the green onions and the dressing, I will make this again and possibly experiment with the salad ingredients.
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The reviewer gave this recipe 3 stars. This recipe averages a 4.47 star rating.
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Reviewed: Apr. 17, 2009
I often cook for a diabetic, so I am on the lookout for interesting recipes for her. There are very few recipes for grapeseed oil on this site and I have some I've been meaning to use, so I tried this recipe. I feel like the submitter got a little lazy after a few expensive ingredients and barely improvised the rest. Fresh basil and balsamic are always a winning combo, but this is far from the best dressing I've tried using both. Aside from those 2, the most interesting things going on in my salad were the radishes and parmesan I added on my own. Sorry and thanks, I'll keep packing my grapeseed oil around. :)
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The reviewer gave this recipe 2 stars. This recipe averages a 4.47 star rating.
Reviewed: Mar. 30, 2009
I purchased the very expensive grapeseed oil recommended by this recipe. Couldn't tell that it was any different from olive oil. Just OK- nothing special
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Reviewed: Feb. 9, 2009
I made this for a dinner party and everyone loved it. I used the grapeseed oil, but I think this would be good with extra virgin olive oil also. Next time I will try the toasted pine nuts as someone else suggested.
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Reviewed: Feb. 5, 2009
I have made this salad about 10 times in the past two months, including for several holiday dinners, each time to rave reviews. I use any kind of mixed, not bitter, greens. I make half the dressing and it is always enough. Make sure you add a good amount of salt and pepper. The most important change is to add toasted pine nuts, as recommended by others. It really makes the salad. Finally, this is one of those dressings that really needs to be dressed a few minutes before serving so the salad can absorb the flavors.
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Reviewed: Jan. 28, 2009
Used my own dressing.
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Reviewed: Dec. 24, 2008
This was delicious. I made the salad dressing the day before and it had a great flavor. All the different types of lettuce make a visually appealing salad.
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Reviewed: Oct. 12, 2008
Tasty salad...I bought a package of mixed salad greens that included radichio, and used 5 cups of that. I also only used 3 tbsp of grapeseed oil and 3 tbsp of balsamic vinegar for the dressing, and the flavor was good. And this is a big salad, so if you're only feeding 2 or 3 people, just leave the dressing on the side, peeps can add their own to taste. The dressing was tasty, not what I had expected. Thanks for the recipe, I'll be making it again!
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Reviewed: Sep. 3, 2008
this was good but you don't need to use all the dressing on it - too much.
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Reviewed: Jun. 13, 2008
This wonderful salad produced rave reviews for me on two occasions. I was not able to come up with the exact proportions of the leafy green mixture, but it didn't matter. I took the liberty of adding some toasted pine nuts and feta cheese just before serving, and it was a good touch!
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Reviewed: May 4, 2008
Great recipe! I served this for a dinner party and it looked beautiful.
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Reviewed: Jan. 12, 2008
Really good salad. I added feta cheese onto. It was wonderful. Yummy!
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Reviewed: Aug. 29, 2007
This was okay. I've definitely had better. Although I had to use olive oil instead of the grapeseed oil because I couldn't find it. So maybe that's the difference in why I thought it was just OK and and everyone else loves it. The dressing tasted great with the tomatoes, but the overall salad just was nothing special.
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Reviewed: Aug. 28, 2007
This was good and I enjoyed the dressing too. It has a strong baslamic vinigar flavor so if you don't love that flavor, maybe cut back a bit on that. I did add some thinly sliced red onion and black olives to the salad and topped it with roasted almond slices and a sprinkle of cheese... It was very tasty! Thanks!
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Reviewed: Jan. 31, 2007
My husband rates this one, I don't care for vingerette dressings, still don't!
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Reviewed: Nov. 6, 2006
This is a wonderful and easy recipe. Served it to a group of about 30 people, a few people even commented that it was the best salad they had ever had.
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Reviewed: Jul. 7, 2006
My boyfriend is a big meat eater and doesn't care for salad too much and really loved this one (he told me not to tell anyone he loved salad though)! Simpsons are wrong, you can win friends with salad; this one. Grapeseed oil does it and I added an Italian herb mix and used some spicy balsamic vinegar with regular balsamic vinegar.
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Reviewed: Mar. 27, 2006
This was good. I'm not sure what the grapeseed oil added but maybe I didn't buy the good stuff. I think olive oil would taste the same. We'll make this again.
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Reviewed: Feb. 20, 2006
I served this salad with lasagna at a dinner party. Several asked about the dressing. My food store didn't have escarole so I upped the red leaf lettuce. Next time I will add walnuts or sliced almonds just for fun.
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