The iceberg wedge salad is always a fan favorite. The toppings include blue cheese dressing and crumbled blue cheese, topped with cherry tomatoes, and crispy bacon. What isn't there to like?
Can we take a minute to appreciate the restaurant salad? It truly is something that you cannot replicate at home, don't even bother. It's like restaurant chefs take some sort of magic fairy dust and sprinkle it on a few leaves of lettuce and BAM it becomes a delicious entree. Maybe it's MSG.
I'm a big fan of ordering salads at restaurants and it's not because I think I'm better than you. I don't order salads to try to be healthy. Trust me. When I go to restaurants I want to enjoy my food and I genuinely enjoy ordering 1,000 calorie salads. I've already written many odes to Cheesecake Factory and their mastery of the unhealthy salad so if you want to hear more of my opinion feel free to ask. So why do I love salad so much? Is it the crunch of crisp lettuce or the chilled dressing? It probably has something to do with the unlimited amount of toppings you can accompany your salad with.
Generally when it comes to restaurant salads you can go down two routes. One is the Cheesecake Factory method where you order the salad as your main meal and it comes delivered by a garbage truck or it's the ever popular "unlimited salad bar." The other method is more refined. The appetizer salad, that comes on a nice chilled glass plate. These salads can include the classic caesar, which gets most of the attention, the simple garden salad, ordered by absolutely no one, or the caprese salad, which means you want people to think you are ordering a healthy meal when in reality you are just eating cheese. However there is an unsung hero often neglected and really only appreciated by steakhouses for some reason. You simply cannot forget the wedge. The wedge salad consists of iceberg lettuce, blue cheese dressing, blue cheese crumbles, bacon, and diced tomatoes. I don't like to mess with a good thing but I've been none to add in some chives for an extra bite.
Ingredients:
1 head iceberg lettuce
4 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese
1 cup blue cheese dressings
1 cup diced cherry tomatoes
chives (for garnish)
black pepper (to top)
1. To prepare the lettuce, discard the outer leaves and chop off the end of the iceberg head. Chop the head of lettuce in half, using a sharp knife, and then in half again to make 4 even quarters.
2. Place the wedges on small salad plates and top with dressing and additional garnishes.
3. Serve cold and top with chives and black pepper if needed.
1 head iceberg lettuce
4 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese
1 cup blue cheese dressings
1 cup diced cherry tomatoes
chives (for garnish)
black pepper (to top)
1. To prepare the lettuce, discard the outer leaves and chop off the end of the iceberg head. Chop the head of lettuce in half, using a sharp knife, and then in half again to make 4 even quarters.
2. Place the wedges on small salad plates and top with dressing and additional garnishes.
3. Serve cold and top with chives and black pepper if needed.
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