Fresh Summer Salads

How does combining a salad with a sandwich sound? Pretty good? That is what you are going to do if you decide to try out this recipe! Why would you do this? Because it is not only fast, like a salad is, but the increased meatiness of a sandwich makes this a fast AND filling meal. Perfect if you want to get a quick meal, but know you will not get a chance to eat for a long time.

The ingredients for a great salad sandwich are as follows: Cucumber, tomato, green onion, sprouts, cream cheese, spinach. For dressing, use mayonnaise (or whatever else, delicious thing, you can think of).

"What?", you say, "no amounts?". Realize that this is all about making a quick meal (that fills you up). This is not rocket science. If you like tomato a lot, take a lot of tomatoes. If you do not like tomatoes, perhaps skip them, or take a lot of something else to drown the taste of tomato. Just use your common sense.

Do you need to be careful with the ingredients you use when you make a salad sandwich? What does your gut sense tell you..? Of course you do not have to be careful -- you just take whatever you like and mix it, and put it on a sandwich. Following a recipe, to perfection, will not do anything for you if the ingredients do not do anything for you....Or, it could happen, but it is probably an exception.

But I will give you an example of ingredients you can use to make your salad sandwich. Just for the hell of it!

The directions are super simple.

Potato Salad With Bacon

Do you like potato salad? I really hope you do - as everyone should. If not, realize it can be endlessly varied (if you have read some of my earlier recipes you know I say this a lot but that is because it is so important; variation can make anyone passionate about and interested in cooking). If your view of potato salad is "nothing special", and that is IT - then you are surely missing opportunities to really satisfy your tastebuds.

These are the directions for this, potentially awesome, recipe:

Peel, then slice and boil potatoes until they are cooked. Drain, let cool.

Cook bacon until it suits you - or until it is crispy. Then drain the grease off it and let cool.

Are the potatoes cool? If not - wait until they are, and then put them in a larger bowl. After this, get a knife and cut them into small pieces.

For this dish, you need:
6-8 bacon slices
6-8 potatoes
Any colour of bell pepper - 1/2, chopped
Green onion - 3-4, chopped
Celery stick - 1, chopped
Garlic - 1-2 cloves, minced
salt and pepper to taste

For the dressing, this is what you need:
Ranch dressing - 1/4 cup
Mayonnaise - 1/2 cup

If the bacon is cool, crumble - and add it to bowl.

Add, to the bowl, the chopped vegetables, salt & pepper and dressing.

Mix everything. Taste the salad. If it lacks flavour, perhaps add some more of the ranch dressing or salt.

Now, refrigerate a few hours and eat! Then enjoy your awesome potato salad meal as much as you possibly can. Spread it to your friends!