Cobb Salad



Ingredients:
1 caput Boston lettuce, torn
1 bunch watercress, roughly chopped (if needed)
1 caput romaine, chopped
1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
five strips thick cutting bacon, cooked in addition to crumbled
1 lb chicken breast, poached* in addition to cubed
four hard-boiled eggs, sliced
1 avocado, cubed
1/2 loving cup crumbled Roquefort (or other blue) cheese
two tablespoons chopped chives


for the salad dressing:
1/3 loving cup carmine vino vinegar
2/3 loving cup olive oil
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon mustard powder
1 clove garlic, finely minced
salt
freshly solid set down dark pepper


Directions:
Place all of the salad dressing ingredients inwards a dressing shaker or lidded jar. Shake until good combined. Refrigerate until develop to use.

Place the lettuces in addition to well-nigh of the watercress inwards a large bowl. Toss gently. Arrange the tomatoes, bacon, chicken, eggs, in addition to avocado on overstep of the lettuces. Sprinkle amongst the remaining watercress, chives in addition to cheese. Sprinkle amongst dressing.


Serves 4.

Note: I made the bacon, boiled eggs in addition to poached the chicken the nighttime earlier I made the salad.

My thoughts:
As nosotros produce every New Year's Eve, my hubby in addition to I had our decade themed night. We started at the '80s in addition to convey worked all agency downward to the '30s. The Cobb Salad was invented at the Brown Derby inwards 1937** in addition to was real pop amongst the people of Hollywood. I've tweaked the master copy a flake to reverberate what is available straightaway (I used cherry tomatoes instead of peeled regular tomatoes, left out the chicory) in addition to modernized the dressing a bit. The spirit is the same, however! I flora it to last a expert salad for wintertime actually, because it didn't require a lot of out-of-season ingredients in addition to it was quite hardy.


*I poached it inwards H2O in addition to vermouth amongst roughly pepper, garlic cloves in addition to a few bay leaves.

**The flush goes that Mr. Cobb, the possessor of the Brown Derby made this salad belatedly i nighttime out of whatsoever odds in addition to ends he flora inwards the kitchen. His dining companion, Sid Grauman of Grauman's Chinese Theatre fame, liked it in addition to hence much he ordered it over again in addition to it was added to the menu.

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