Haines His Way

I think i saw a garbage disposal when i visited some friends in the US. But we don't have those here (i'm serious).

We have grocery stores here that have prepared food behind a counter (that look like what you might see at a deli). You can buy things like macaroni salad. Or chicken dishes. But i would not consider this a salad bar. Is this similar to what you mean? Or are you talking a real salad bar where you have a bowl of lettuce and stuff.

A real salad bar.

I finally figured out HOW Singdaw knows DR Laura has a headache.

BEGONE HEADACHE VIBES!

Okay, let's get serious, salad-wise, with BK's favorites:

Agree with Druxy about the Brown Derby cobb salad - never bettered.  That said, pre-diet, I loved a good cobb salad - my problem is that I only like ranch or, if it's really good, 1000 Island dressing, and I use way too much of it.

For a simple dinner salad I like Musso and Frank's simple dinner salad with their excellent vinaigrette dressing.

I also, as most of you know, love their Combination Louis - crab, shrimp, and lobster.  Again, the 1000 Island dressing is very caloric, but it's the ONLY thing that's caloric in that salad, and even in the old days when I used to put a bowl of it on the salad I never gained weight.  These days, however, I use both 1000 Island (in very small doses) and their red cocktail sauce, which is excellent.

I'm now very fond of Amy's Salad from Stanley's - avocado, chicken, butter lettuce, cashew nuts and grapefruit slices - in their soy dressing.  Their Chinese chicken salad is also the best in town.  They also do a nice Caesar Salad.  Which brings me to:

Best Caesar salad in town: Dan Tana's - made at the table, as it should be.

Little Toni's does an excellent antipasto salad, filled with all sorts of fun things.  Their Eyetalian dressing is very good.

And then there is cousin Dee Dee's unbelievably great salad - a light 1000 Island dressing of her own making, and then filled with good lettuce, veggies, jicama, and it's just perfection.  Unfortunately, she doesn't make it very often - last time I had it was about fifteen years ago, I think.  Which brings me to:

My mother's 1000 Island dressing - never bettered.

The notes will be up late, and I hope some people will also be up late posting.

DR Jennifer, I believe we have two markets here with salad bars; one the all natural co-op, and at the Market of Choice, a small chain of store located in Oregon.  I’ve seen other salad bars in markets around the country.  There were all rather much like a salad bar at a restaurant, including soup on the side.  The salad bars here have a large variety of fixings.  The deli counters we have sound basically like yours.

When we moved from Southern California to New Jersey we were startled to find no one had garbage disposals.  It was also our first experience with a septic tank.  Do you have a septic tank?  The second home we had with a septic did have a garbage disposal but we were told to use it sparingly.  Our current home has a septic, and a disposal we use all the time.  Our other 6 homes all had garbage disposals as well as our apartments and our small, one bedroom, rental home.

No septic tank, no garbarge dispossal.

Actually i was curious if other places in canada had garbage disposals. So i did a search. And one chain that carries them only has 2 locations (ontario and calgary alberta). So i suppose there are some people that have them.

Here i have not seen them. We just throw the garbage in the actual garbage.

Those salads sound good. What is butter lettuce?

I haven't really had that many salads at restaurants other than house salads.

I have however been eating salad every day since i've been trying to lose weight.

Usually i just use one of those $1 bag of lettuces you buy at the grocery store and add feta and tomatoes. And I make my own homemade dressing (with light mayo, olive oil, parmesean cheese, garlic, feta, parsley, vinegar, paprika). I can't even stand bottled dressings anymore.

My sister makes two of my all-time favorite salads.

*  Her potato salad is incredible
*  Her taco salad used to be the most requested thing she ever made - and she is a wonderful cook.

* I make used to make a great shrimp and macaroni salad, but I seldom make it anymore.

Some other people of interest at the October Ray Courts show include:


Dynasty's Gordon Thomas

Actually Gordon Thomson.

Wow, that could be an interesting reunion for Ray Court.  Both sets of the original TV Hardy Boys - Tim and Tommy; and Sean and Parker.

Mr. Clint Walker

Johnnie's brother?

Good Evening!

So... On the train ride back uptown, there was a (nice looking) gentleman sorting through a bag of athletic equipment.  At first I - and some other people - thought he had pulled out a bag of athletic supporters and was sorting them.  However, each strap seemed to have two jocks/cups attached to them.  Hmm...  Well, after some more observation and deduction, I realized that they were caps that water polo players wear.  The (small) cups were the ear protectors.  However, the look on the face of the woman sitting next to him... Priceless!  

. . .and you DIDN'T take a picture?!?!?!?

My thoughts exactly.  I mean, what is the purpose of DR JoseSPiano having an iPhone, if not to share these moments with us, his fellow Dear Readers?    

My thoughts exactly.  I mean, what is the purpose of DR JoseSPiano having an iPhone, if not to share these moments with us, his fellow Dear Readers?    

Well, I would only post the picture if I had gotten his name.  And number.

My thoughts exactly.  I mean, what is the purpose of DR JoseSPiano having an iPhone, if not to share these moments with us, his fellow Dear Readers?    

I think he should be bitch-slapped.  Gently, of course. . .