COBB SALAD

RECIPES THAT WILL END UP BEING YOUR FAVORITES BECAUSE THEY LOOK SO FANTASTIC AND YET ARE DECEPTIVELY EASY TO MAKE



I don’t know why they call it a Cobb Salad because it doesn’t look anything like a cob. Maybe it was invented by someone named Cobb or maybe it has a cob kind of feel to it. Whichever it is or even if it’s none of these, it’s still a great salad and remarkably easy to put together. This is a salad you might want to serve when you have guests over for lunch or when you want to have a special romantic dinner with your husband or ‘significant other’. One nice thing about it is that you can make it a few hours ahead, cover it with plastic wrap and keep it in the fridge until you’re ready to eat. Then you bring it out and voila! Whoever you serve it to will think you are a magician to have this amazing salad ready to whip out and put on the table at the perfect moment. Here is how you do it:
4 hard boiled eggs
1 C. grated cheese (the best is cheddar, Swiss or I like to use Jarlsberg, a Norwegian cheese that is delicious)
1 C. finely sliced celery
5 pieces bacon, crispy but not overcooked
4 small tomatoes, chopped in small pieces
1 small avocado, cut into small cubes
1 T. fresh lemon juice
2 scallions, cleaned and finely sliced
1 small head of Iceberg lettuce, chopped in small pieces
1. Wash the lettuce in a salad spinner, then chop it up. Put it on two large plates
2. Fry the bacon, drain and crumble it into small pieces


3. Boil the eggs, peel, put through an egg slicer both ways
4. Slice the celery and set aside
5. Slice the scallions and set aside
6. Cut up the tomatoes and set aside
7. Grate the cheese and set aside


8. Now, starting with the eggs, put each one them down the middle of the plate diagonally and arrange the other ingredients on each side until all are used up. This really works better on a square plate if you have one.
9. Top with the avocados that have been cut up and sprinkled with the lemon juice and the scallions. You can put them in any order you want or put any other ingredients you might want if you don’t want to use these. The more colorful, the better. Serves 2. Enjoy!