Jan 13 2010
Cobb Salad.
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Whoa.
Before you get all excited about these vegetables, I must tell you I only had a few bites. I haven’t turned my back on you.
I’d eat more, but veggies make me nervous. They make me sweat. Give me a rash. Hurt my tastebuds. Make me cry.
You know. The usual stuff.
But, I do like the occasional cobb salad. Know why? Because it is usually chock-full of bacon, cheese, and other non-vegetable items. Fantastic for me!
I made one with chicken for my adoring husband.
Without the chicken, he would have started to grow horns, and shrink into a munchkin with tiny feet and big ears. At least that is what he assumes.
On second thought, I guess then he could drive around in the plethora of dye-cast cars he has ruined our home with.
On a bed of lettuce I added pretty, colorful rows of red onion, bacon, tomato, hard-boiled egg, chicken, and avocado.
I’m sure it doesn’t take a genius to figure out which parts I ate.
The star of the show was the avocado. I jumped for joy when I found a perfectly ripe avocado in Pittsburgh in January.
Yes, I had to sell me first unborn-child to buy it, but it was totally worth it.
Sometimes vegetables are pretty. Sometimes I wish I liked them.
Sometimes I wish they were chocolate.
Oh wait. That’s all the time.
Since this is a heavier salad, we prefer to use a lighter citrus dressing. Leaves more room for the bacon!
Cobb Salad
Serves 1
2 cups green leaf lettuce
3 oz grilled chicken, chopped
4 slices bacon, fried and chopped
2 beefsteak tomatoes, chopped
1/2 red onion, chopped
2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
1/2 avocado, chopped
salt & pepper to taste
Layer the bed of green leaf lettuce on a shallow plate. Add chopped veggies in rows. Top with dressing.
dressing:
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons lime juice
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
Have you made cobb salads before? What fun things do you add in?
If it is a vegetable, I won’t lie. I probably won’t eat it. But if you like to add in bacon, cheese, chocolate, mashed potatoes, nachos, or Starbucks full-fat frappachinos, I’m game.
It is sweet no doubt.
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I did a salad post last night! I love crazy mixed up salads. They are definitely not just for vegetables!
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omg I love cobb salads too! This looks great – and I love your pictures!
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You crack me up- I’m such a veggie lover
The salad is just so colorful! Its like a food rainbow 
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Beautiful salad. I agree – it looks like a rainbow!
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Such pretty colors you got going on here. I love eating cobb salads with ranch dressing! I make mine with fake chicken and bacon though.
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I’m not usually a big Cobb salad fan, but I do love eating the hard-boiled eggs off of them! And avacado, mmmm…
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LOVE me a cobb salad. Of course the best parts are the cheese, bacon, egg and avocado. Oh and I’m up for any nuts that are added in there as well…walnuts…almonds…whichever. YUM!
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HAHA! everything in the made me laugh. you really do crack me up
UMM, ms gorgonzola?! You forgot da best part!!
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I’m excited to find another Pittsburgh food/fitness blogger! I came across your blog on Caitlin’s. So Excited! I thought food bloggers only existed in Florida. Ha
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I’m with you….I am not a huge Cobb Salad fan but the husband is…so he will LOVE this!
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But you do have bacon! It makes up for the veggies, no?
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Cobb salads are probably my fave salad….I’m not much for those spinach salads that everyone raves about:)
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Awesome looking salad!
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I love cobb salads but never make them at home. Too much work!
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I love cobb salads! Probably one of my favorites
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What a beautiful salad!
Veggies—meh. I’m with you
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LOVe cobb salad also beacuse they are usually chopped and i LOVE chopped salads…dried cranberries are the best addition! i don’t like bacon so i would do without that but sub it for turkey breast or chicken breast. It is one of the only salads i loev with blue cheese!
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Jessica Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 11:54 am
I’m all about the chopped salads, too! Makes it easier to force down the veggies.
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You are too funny! I love veggies and especially salads! You know what goes good on salads? Roasted sweet potatoes and peas! YUM!
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Hello fellow Pittsburgher! You sound just like my husband with the veggies. I’m a salad lover so this looks fab to me!
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So beautiful how you arranged it! I think it’s hysterical you don’t like vegetables. I seriously can not imagine feeling that way.
Have you tried veggies roasted until crispy? My bf is not the hugest fan of veggies but he’ll chow down on sweet potato/carrot fries any day.
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Jessica Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Oh yes. Yes I have. And I like sweet potatoes. Its the green and other fun-colored, fibrous veggies I am not a fan of.
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you and your vegphobia..so funny! that looks yummy
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“I guess then he could drive around in the plethora of dye-cast cars he has ruined our home with”
That literally made me laugh out loud. You are trip!
Salad looks delish as well
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OMG–why does this look so good right now?! I have never made a cobb salad at home and rarely order it in restaurants, but this is maybe the best lookin’ cobb salad I have ever seen. Seriously. And the dressing sounds delicious–not too heavy like you normally get with cobb salads.
So basically I am in love with it!
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Okay so I use to hate, HATE vegetables and then one day I started eating them and one day I decided I liked them and now I’m vegetarian. One day you’ll love veggies too! =)
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LOVE cobb salad. I try to go without dressing usually too. Or if I want to go balls out, it’s ranch
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YUM! It looks like a restaurant style cobb! Only you Jessica, could make such a fantastic work of art
And, it probably tastes a million times better than any restaurant!
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sorry i am a tad behind on your blog! that is exciting about the cookbook and i LOVED those cute little tarts. cobb salad is my go-to when eating out. i just love all the components!
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Hey a few bites of veggies are better than nothing!! This dish is soo colorful
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I think avocados should always be the star of the show!
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I’m loving avocadoes right now.
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I’m digging the way you lined up the vegetables. That way you can make sure to get a little piece of everything on your fork.
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YUM!!! What a great looking salad!
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OMG how did u knowwww Cobb Salads are my faveee!!! Any salad with bacon, yes please
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i adore cobb salads…mmmmmmm…with homemade ranch! so tasty!
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mmm your cobb salad looks like the perfect cobb salad to me
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oh that salad looks great!
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I’m not a huge fan of egg in salads, so I usually shy away from the cobb, but yours is kind of intriguing me…
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I love Cobb salad!
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that salad looks professional! I’ve never made a cobb salad before…chopping vegetables is so much work. the outcome seems worth it though
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I’ve always heard of cobb salads and turned my nose up, as I am not a salad girl. Little did I know they had eggs, bacon and chicken. I am now desperate to try one!
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Your cobb salad is beautiful! I love salads with lots of other, non-veggie, deliciousness in them
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I have never had a cob salad – but this post is freakin’ hilarious!
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That looks amazing Jessica!! Your pictures are great too. You never cease to amaze me with your talents!
Blessings-
Amanda
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lol, anything with bacon, and it rocks. Seriously, what CAN’T bacon do! It even made you eat salad!
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The salad is beautiful! That is so funny about the light dressing so you have more room for bacon. My boys LOVE bacon too!
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Wow. Your blog is sinful…just sinful. I LOVE it. I got here from Amy at She Wears Many Hats. Seeing as how I have to lose my holiday weight I don’t know if I should visit that often. But I’m already hooked. Yikes.
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I loves me a good cobb salad. I’ll trade your husband his avocado.
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I love cobb salads… Chicken and avocado and bacon… what could be better?
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gorgeous salad, Jess!!! mmmmmmm
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