What's your favorite salad green?

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If you could only ever have but one leafy vegetable in your salad, which one would you pick?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Rocket (arugula)	14
Spinach	6
Watercress	4
Butter lettuce	3
Spinach	2
Iceberg lettuce	2
Romaine lettuce	2
Chicory	1
Pissenlit (Dandelion)	1
Sorrel	0
Red lettuce	0
Raddichio	0
Green lettuce	0
Mizuna	0
Tatsoi	0
Winter purslane	0
Curly Endive	0
Mustard Greens	0
Frisée	0
Belgian endive	0
Escarole	0

― Michael White, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Oh arugula for sures. Have some sprouted in the garden--can't wait to eat with lemony vinaigrette!

― quincie, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Where is the love for Lamb's Lettuce?

― Anna, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

bougie mesculn mix to thread

― sexyDancer, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

I am tending toward arugula, too, but I really like butter lettuce for its delicacy, frisée in salad aux lardons, shredded iceberg in mexican dishes like tostada compuesta, hearts of romaine for grilling and endives for salads that need a little bitterness or bite. Anna, lamb's lettuce is up there, but I think of it as mache since I had in France, first. It makes for a pretty kick-ass salad, too, come to think of it.

― Michael White, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

I vote spinach. Baby spinach preferred.

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I knew it had another name, but I can never remember it.Ah well, the lovely butter lettuce deserved my vote just as much.

― Anna, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

arugula, i'm middlebrow that way

― get bent, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

No kale no credibility.

http://www.worldcommunitycookbook.org/season/guide/photos/kale.jpg

― ian, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

but i vote romaine, because i love caesar salad.

― ian, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

I'm allergic to all of these :(

― Mark C, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Hatred of iceberg reveals bourgeois self-hatred.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

ROCKET

― river wolf, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but Spencer, the wedge is not only dull but unwieldly.

― Michael White, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

I love the endive (chicory), good cooked as well, especially with pork or chicken.

― Ed, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

I used to catch watercress in the rivers...my salad days indeed.

― Abbott, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

Arugala, definitely, but I do love watercress and dandelion greens.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

I like STEpHEN cOLBERT on iceberg lettuce: "It's got water, it's got roughage...it's a little spicy, though."

― Abbott, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

No kale no credibility.

I only like it cooked.

― Michael White, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

I can't imagine trying to eat kale raw. It seems like it would shred your mouth. And not like an extreme dude. Like a samurai trapped in a paper cage.

― nickalicious, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, what name is lamb's lettuce up there as?

― Alba, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

Mache

― Michael White, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

Should be mâche.

― Michael White, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

But that's not in the list I can see. Oh well, the other name I know it as is "corn salad".

― Alba, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

You're right! I was sure I put it in there, too, 'cause it's a favorite of mine.

― Michael White, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Is escarole the really spiny, bitter thing in those "bougie mesclun mixes"?

― nickalicious, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

Chicory is a really nice item to throw on the grill when you've cooked all the meat but don't want to waste the charcoaly heat goodness. Also radichio and romaine hearts.

― nickalicious, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

Rocket rocket rocket. And only the really spicy stuff that get hotter and hotter as you chew. Watercress is allowed sometimes.

― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

I used to catch watercress in the rivers...my salad days indeed.

Fresh watercress from the river is like a different thing to shop-bought watercress altogether. Chomp chomp chomp!

― Alba, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Handy salad thesaurus

― Alba, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

arugula

there was a health food restaurant here that put raw kale in the mixed green salads. inedible. do people eat mustard greens or escarole raw?

be sure to triple-wash the pissenlit

― m coleman, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

Every now and then I'll have a salad of mustard greens and a hot bacon vinaigrette, but not often.

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

arugula, i'm middlebrow that way

i don't know why, but this made me lol

― kenan, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

Frankly, you want the farm raised pissenlit, as it's bred to be less bitter.

I've had escarole raw and it's good but mustard greens are better cooked, not necessarily over-cooked, and not inedible raw, but better poached or steamed a tad.

― Michael White, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

xxpost

does the dressing wilt the greens at all? it sounds good, I've had a sweet/sour pennsylvania dutch-style hot bacon dressing on cabbage.

― m coleman, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

Rock's salad sounds similar to a salade aux lardons. In France they dress frisée (young chicory) in a vinaigrette then pour on hot lardons (cubed back-fat bacon) and top it with a soft boiled egg, whose yolk becomes part of the dressing. I always call it 'breakfast salad' in the same way I call carbonara 'breakfast pasta'. The heat of the lardons does soften the somewhat spiny leaves a bit, but it's not a proper wilted salad.

― Michael White, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

What he said.

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

But to expand a bit, yes, it does wilt them, but you still get the hot mustardy flavor of the raw greens. I pour off a good bit of the bacon fat and then deglaze the pan with red wine vinegar, add some sugar, scrape up the fond, and toss the whole thing.

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

My favorite way of eating mustard, really, is to nibble at it raw while I'm picking a mess for dinner. My dad plants a huge patch of mustard, collards and turnips every fall and I've never bought any in a store.

When we lived in Oxford, our neighbor planted greens ever winter too, and she had some variety of mustard that would blow the top of your head off.

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

I often poach mustard greens in stock used to deglaze a skillet used for pork chops. If you do it fast when there's not too much liquid, you soften the greens without entirely denaturing the taste.

― Michael White, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

Where is the love for Lamb's Lettuce?

― Anna, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:52 (5 years ago)

this stuff is shit

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:55 (thirteen years ago)

WRONG
I call it mache and it is my delicious friend

― a funny thing happened on the way to the forum (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 6 December 2012 00:56 (thirteen years ago)

yeah lamb's lettuce is pretty good, it's just substitute baby spinach imo?

i feel like rocket just walking this poll is very of its time. like serendipity winning votes as the nation's favourite word in like 1997, just like a fashionable blip, something testament to the time in which it happened. some bush vs gore shit going on w/the subdivided spinach vote upthread, also.

― spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:35 (thirteen years ago)

Hmm arugula has been sitting pretty at #1 since at least 1997. Radicchio and endive would've got some votes in the 90s tho. Chicory and mustard would get some now

― a funny thing happened on the way to the forum (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 6 December 2012 06:05 (thirteen years ago)

man i don't even know what mustard leaves are like

― ~bacon trailblazer~ (schlump), Thursday, 6 December 2012 07:22 (thirteen years ago)

otherwise a big fan of the mustard franchise

― ~bacon trailblazer~ (schlump), Thursday, 6 December 2012 07:22 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, rocket's good, but try a whole salad of just that. Blech! I love all greens, but especially Belgian endive in combo with Romaine.

― emilys., Thursday, 6 December 2012 09:07 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah rocket isnt an "only" salad green, it needs to be a hilight with milder leaves, tomatoes etc. Altho it is nice wilted under some poached eggs or seared meats, too. But thats not a salad.

― Una Stubbs' Tears (Trayce), Thursday, 6 December 2012 09:13 (thirteen years ago)

Endive is so stupid, I mean, I love it, put it on a pizza with brown sugar, blue cheese and pears, or anyway they do it in Italy, but what a stupid stupid food

― a funny thing happened on the way to the forum (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 6 December 2012 09:36 (thirteen years ago)

write in vote for "Toffee Crisp"

― Mark G, Thursday, 6 December 2012 09:55 (thirteen years ago)

watercress 4 me

― just sayin, Thursday, 6 December 2012 10:11 (thirteen years ago)

rocket.

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 6 December 2012 10:14 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=5o1G0GSiNQM

― ledge, Thursday, 6 December 2012 10:30 (thirteen years ago)

nuts

― ledge, Thursday, 6 December 2012 10:30 (thirteen years ago)

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