"Use a Spoon" Chopped Salad

This recipe is very fresh and the almonds give it a great crunch!

It's a colorful salad with a lot of visual appeal. Heard a lot of comments that it looked good. It's a good neutral salad that is goes well with any kind of cuisine. The fresher your vegetables, the better it tastes. So if your crisper has weeks old celery or carrot, opt for getting fresh bunches. I added a little more honey and salt to the dressing because it needed it. I had to make changes because the treviso I found at my local Ralph's was extremely bitter (probably old). It would have been terrible to leave it in, especially with arugula, which has a bite. I subbed red leaf lettuce since I had it on hand. I also didn't use cabbage because I thought the texture would have been odd...super soft lettuces with one rigid leaf. I reserved some of the dressing when marinating the diced veggies and tossed it in when I mixed up the whole thing. Changes I'm making next time: Go with fresh radicchio for minimal bitterness(but great color) and fruit-flavored goat change. I won't be using the red leaf lettuce again because it's so limp - good in a pinch but not ideal.

It was just ok - basically tasted like chopped raw vegetables...not that there's anything wrong with that, but if I'm going to do so much chopping, I'd like to be wowed. I guess I was expecting the dressing to be better; that's probably the best place to start if you want to improve it. Tossing it with seasoned rice wine vinegar, oil and kosher salt would probably be better than the dressing used in the recipe.

It was just ok - basically tasted like chopped raw vegetables...not that there's anything wrong with that, but if I'm going to do so much chopping, I'd like to be wowed. I guess I was expecting the dressing to be better; that's probably the best place to start if you want to improve it. Tossing it with seasoned rice wine vinegar, oil and kosher salt would probably be better than the dressing used in the recipe.

I loved this salad. Out of necessity, I used lemon juice instead of vinegar and it was great. I also had some radishes, so I threw them into the bowl as well. I've made it twice now. It's a keeper.

I made this twice this week to take to holiday get togethers - I thought people would be hungry for veggies after Christmas. It's so delicious and everyone enjoyed it. I have pretty strong knife skills but it still took me a while but theraputic for me. I did add some extra arugula and cabbage. Napa wasn't available at store so I used pre-chopped cole saw and it worked fine. I did double the dressing and let the celery/carrot combo marinate for an hour. Make sure you cut everything really small, that's part of what makes it so good (and easy for little kids to eat)

Question Hi! Stupid question alert...is crumbled goat cheese different from the soft goat cheese that we buy wrapped in plastic - kind of sausage-like? Appreciate any insight - thanks!