“That sounds good. I’ll have that.” Those, my friends, are the words spoken by my buddy to the waiter at dinner one evening. Words that he soon regretted so badly he cried a little. I, on the other hand, laughed, a lot!
You would think that making a salad is much like boiling water – pretty simple stuff. Wash, chop, season… Voila! This is not always the case. It’s surprising to often find people who cannot make a decent salad, even if their lives depended on leafy greens and vinaigrettes.
Maybe there is a certain art to making the perfect salad, but I find that with just the right amount of olive oil and balsamic vinegar, salads can rock. And that’s without getting creative.
The first rule to making the perfect salad is that there aren’t any rules - you can put all kinds of sh*t in there. Of course, as in all delicious dishes, there are a few guidelines one should consider in order to maximize the flavor factor.
These days, the only real way to be sure of what’s going into the food you’re eating is to make it yourself. Unfortunately, the realities of everyday life often prevent people from doing this as much as they’d probably like.
As health conscious as we try to be, sometimes, the truth is unless you’re the kind of person who walks down the aisle of their grocery store meticulously checking the nutrition labels on everything they’re about to buy, it’s pretty easy to get duped into buying garbage.
Companies spend millions and millions of dollars every year to make sure their products are cast in a positive light – and it’s obvious by now that they don’t really care whether the associations they’re creating are accurate or not.
Here are 3 examples of foods we’ve been led to believe are good for us even though the facts suggest otherwise.
If you’re not an adventurous eater and rarely break away from the confines of your local grocer’s, there’s a whole whack of incredible and incredibly interesting foods out there that you’re probably missing out on.
That statement rings particularly true when taking a look at the wide world of fruits and vegetables.
A lot of North Americans are so used to the standard apples, pears and oranges – with a few tropical additions like mangos and papayas thrown in from time to time – that they might take a really exotic piece of fruit for a piece of extra-terrestrial produce.
You know this to be true by the bewildered looks you may see on some shoppers’ faces if your supermarket ever gets random shipments of things like dragon fruits or horned melons.
So for everyone out there with a curious palate that’s open to new experiences, here are 3 especially unique fruits from around the world that everyone should introduce their taste buds to at least once.