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Originally Posted by GA Russell
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Cooked salad huh?
Well, around here it mainly would be collard greens. You've really got to know what you're doing to make them where they taste good.And you definitely don't want to eat them _without_ cooking them!
A ways further north, it might be mustard greens. I haven't had much experiece with them.
Somewhere even further north, say the whole of Tennessee, it's definitely turnip greens country. Have you ever eaten at a Cracker Barrel restaurant? Well, the only cooked salad that they serve, I think, is turnip greens. Why, you say? Probably because C.B. started in Tennessee. Their home office today is in a town called "Lebanon," which is just east of Nashville.
Sauteed spinach can be delicious. As far as I know, it's available here and there all over the country. I had some really, really good sauteed spinach at a nice restauranl a few miles away, a week ago last Friday
Now those are what cooked salads are. A salad _cook_book is almost always a misnomer. It doesn't give any recipes for _cooked_ salads--the salads are all _cold_. IMHO, the rest of them should be called "salad _recipebooks_," or "cold salad recipebooks," or something like that. I think that it would be great to have a true salad (i.e., greens) cookbook. Would one of you be up to writing it?
