salads!

I know when some people think of salad, its almost like ugluh, that tasteless, crunchy green stuff with no filling value, that one is required to eat in order to survive. I used to dread eating salad. I mean i ate it, but it wasn't my preferred choice of cuisine if you catch my drift. Salad these days has become more of a joy for me, I've discovered that one can be quite inventive with their salads & can in fact sneak in a wide variety of foods under the guise of it being salad providing there is at least one vegetable present. In fact there are entire books published on salad recipes. Thick ones too. Once you start ruffling around in the salad scene it can be quite the intrigue. It's almost like you're always thinking: "hmm, i wonder if that would taste good in a salad".... but somehow, salad always makes for a lighter meal that just doesn't leave you feeling FAT the whole day....