Cobb Salad from Smitten Kitchen
Posted By Melissa on May 3, 2010
I love a good salad and with the summer heat arriving I need to add to my list of wonderful salads. Smitten Kitchen recently posted about a Cobb Salad and immediately I wanted one! I bought the ingredients the next time I went to the commissary.
Instead of piling it all on one plate, I put the ingredients in separate storage containers. I knew this would make it easier for me to put leftovers away and have a yummy salad for lunch the next day!
I still made the kids try a little of everything but the next day I let them choose what they wanted. Good. More blue cheese for me!!!
The lettuce is a head of iceberg and a head of romaine. I made it big so we could have it for lunch the next day also.
I especially love the BACON!!! I buy thick cut and cook it in the oven.
My 2nd favorite is the avocado. Oh the creaminess.
I forgot to take a picture of the dressing. I did make the one that Smitten Kitchen recommended and it was delicious. I didn’t need to use very much on my salad to cover everything and the avocado and blue cheese are like a dressing of their own. Love the flavors!
Classic Cobb Salad
Adapted, barely, from Smitten Kitchen
Serves our family for dinner and lunch. 
Dressing:
3/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
3/4 teaspoon dry mustard
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1 clove garlic, minced
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Blend all together. Don’t use too much!
Salad
1 head iceberg lettuce, cored and shredded
1 head romaine lettuce, chopped
1 container blue cheese, crumbled
1 pkg bacon, cooked, roughly chopped
6 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and chopped
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
2 boneless skinless chicken breast, cooked and chopped
3 avocado, cut in half, remove pits, score avocado, remove with spoon
Enjoy!!
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Melissa, have you really been expecting me to post that I decided to go back to grad school?? LOL – why?
The salad looks yummy! Come make one for me, please!
Nice mis en place. Makes it so much easier.
Oh, this looks wonderful! After my 3rd baby was born last June, the hospital had a ton of “meat and taters”type choices for me to eat (blech- it was hot! And I’d just had a baby!) But they offered a Cobb salad one day and it tasted so delicious… perhaps because I’d been deprived of blue cheese for almost 9 months.
Thanks for sharing this!
I love blue cheese too! mmmm
Oh, that looks SOO wonderful! Makes me want to run out to my grocery to buy the ingredients!
That looks absolutely delicious – I love salads! Thank you for sharing your recipe.
This looks really good and healthy, too!
Gorgeous salad! I love awesome healthy salads like this, thanks!