Do find salad kind of lame sometimes? Me, too. But I know its good for me, and it never really tastes BAD, so I usually make it. This night, though, I only had lettuce and mushrooms. For being the main ingredient in a salad, lettuce is surprisingly bad at mixing with salad's back-up star, the dressing. It often turns out that unless you use a tasty and fatty (and delicious and bad at the same time) creamy dressing, your dressing falls listlessly to the bottom of the bowl and your lettuce tastes unsurprisingly like lettuce. Add to that some raw mushrooms, tasty slightly chalky and papery and raw. Meh.
So - what I did instead was this: I chopped my lettuce nice and small. Then I rinsed it in my salad bowl to get rid of any grit. I left it on the chopping board to drain a bit and chopped up my mushrooms. Into a bowl I whisked together some (that is an exact measurement) oil, red wine vinegar, honey, tons of pepper and salt. Then I plopped the mushrooms in the bowl with the dressing and let them marinate. The shrooms soak up the dressing and soften at the same time, solving two problems at once.
That's about it. Mix them together and you get a really lovely salad!
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