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- From: lauri@fndcd.fnal.gov (Laurelin of Middle Earth)
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Caesar Salad
- Date: 18 Aug 1994 13:00:18 -0400
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
- Message-ID: <32rag1$gbn@fnnews.fnal.gov>
- References: <UiIDuH600iUyQ41JhE@andrew.cmu.edu>
-
- Here's one, my personal favourite, good if you like garlic. I make it
- approximately once a month, sorry I don't have exact quantities for
- anything. It takes about 10 minutes in all, *really* easy. It goes very
- very well with swiss-garlic bread (press garlic into butter, melt the
- butter, spread on bread, top with sliced swiss cheese, bake in the oven
- until the swiss melts, yum!).
-
-
- Ingredients:
- ------------
- 1-2 good sized heads romaine lettuce
- 2-3 inches anchovie paste (squeezed from a tube, probably @1-2 Tbsp)
- 2-3 cloves garlic (more if you wish, I usually use 4-5)
- 1 egg, coddled (see below)
- 4-5 shakes worceshestire sauce
- salt
- fresh ground black pepper
- 1 lemon
- olive oil
- 2-3 handfulls fresh grated parmesan cheese (probably @1cup)
- croutons (I like Brownberry Oven's the best...)
-
-
- Steps:
- ------
-
- Wash the lettuce thoroughly (it's a very sandy lettuce). Dry thoroughly
- as well. Remove the icky leaves on the outside of the head.
-
- TIP: for soggy romaine, wrap clean leaves in a wet towel, seal in a baggie
- and leave overnight in the fridge. They really perk up!
-
- Start heating up a small pan of water.
-
- Squeeze some anchovie paste into a large wooden salad bowl. Press a
- couple of garlic cloves in. With a spoon, smear the anchovie/garlic paste
- mix around the bottom/sides of the bowl. Scrape out the obvious excess
- (this is a matter of taste; I *love* garlic, so tend to leave most of it
- in there).
-
- By now the water should be boiling. Drop in a room-temp raw egg, wait 60
- seconds. Remove from the water and crack the egg into the salad bowl.
- (Scrape the semi-cooked white stuff too). NOTE: I suppose this isn't too
- healthy any more.... sigh...
-
- Salt and pepper the egg, shake some worceshestire sauce (how do you spell
- it, anyway?!). Whisk it all together.
-
- Ream the juice of one lemon into the bowl. (Again, more or less to
- taste). Whisk some more.
-
- Add olive oil in little spurts, whisking between spurts, until you get the
- "right" consistency -- the oil doesn't bead up after being whisked, but it
- isn't too watery either. Taste-test on a lettuce leaf, it helps.
-
- Add the cheese, reserving a little for later, whisk some more. Taste test
- again.
-
- Tear the lettuce leaves, drop into the dressing. Toss all together. Add
- croutons, toss again, sprinkle with a little bit of decorative cheese at
- the end.
-
- Enjoy!
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