The mixture of baby lettuce, goat cheese, assorted vegetables (whatever's at the farmers' market), sprouts, salsa verde, sunflower seeds plus the option to add shrimp or chicken makes the Summer Harvest Salad a winning combination that will have you asking, "What's bread?"ģ. In the past, I've tended to favor the carbohydrate-oriented menu items at Local Foods, such as the sandwiches on those amazing Slow Dough pretzel rolls. H-town offers many respectable taco salads, but El Real gets extra points for using fajita beef and offering fragrant dressings such as jalapeño lime and cilantro ranch.Ĥ. Okay, so maybe this isn't exactly what Elaine has in mind when she speaks of her love for the "big salad." But that's because, I am convinced, she lives in New York, not in Texas, where everyone knows that if you take away the tortilla and add more lettuce to a Tex-Mex dish, you basically have a salad. "It's a salad, only bigger, with lots of stuff in it," explains Elaine to a grumpy waitress at Reggie's, which unlike the fearless foursome's regular haunt, Monk's, does not usually vend "big salads." Well, Elaine, you weren't very precise about the composition of your beloved "big salad," but here are five in Houston that I think would qualify:ĥ. *First, let me be clear that in selecting the items on this list, I was operating under the Elaine Benes definition of a "big salad." As you Seinfeld fans might remember, Jerry initially said that a "big salad" contains "big lettuce, big carrots, tomatoes like volleyballs," but in another episode, Elaine actually provides some clarification.
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