[Suzanne]

Peach, I'm on my way! The only problem is that I have no car, so I gotta keep walkin', uh uh, uh uh, uh uh uh. (but I just can't lose my pride)

[coolJ]

Originally posted by nancya
I buy it in a bag!

I only do that when I've got a catering gig, because it saves me a lot of time.

[marmalady]

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Originally posted by nancya
I buy it in a bag!



LOL, Nancy! You reminded me of a story - my son's rehab doc would get jealous when she saw the meals I brought in to the rehab hospital for him, and always told me I should give her cooking lessons.

One day, she said her mother told her, 'Barbara, just go to the store and they have these neat salads in a bag, already cut and everything'. Doc's reply - 'But, ma, then I have to open the bag!!!!!'

[Isa]

On Good Eats Alton Brown said that by tearing the lettuce, you'll keep the water water cellules intact.


To make his point he said to imagine a sheet of bubble wrap. If you tear it it will break between the bubble but if you use a knife you will cut right in the centre of the bubbles and destroy them.



I am so happy I can now watch The Food Network!!

[chiffonade]

Cutting lettuce reminds me of the Brooklyn diners where you were presented with a perfectly symmetrical quarter head of iceberg lettuce as a "salad."

Roughly torn, bite sized, irregularly shaped pieces of ANYTHING but iceberg lettuce is what I think of as "green salad."