sharon1

I wilt it with out the bacon grease. I heat up the vinegar, sugar... and put in a few bacon bits just enough to get a little flavor. This works good without all of the grease.

carolynjo

I use our 3 kinds of leaf lettuce along with our iceberg lettuce to make a general green salad. I cut everything into small pieces, add mushrooms, carrots, celery, red onion. I cut tomatoes and cucumbers and put in separate dishes. Then, put your finely chopped salad into a bowl, add a dressing of choice and then add the tomatoes and cucumbers. Delicious and very easy to eat.

Pete

The one we always do is: garden lettuce, sliced cucumbers, chives, and sourcream.

AndiR

I use my garden lettuce to make a 'normal' salad - lettuce, carrots, celery, radishes, red onion, etc. Then put any kind of dressing you like - italian, french, ranch, etc. DH and I have found that we enjoy salads lately with just olive oil and fresh lemon juice - simple and healthy, without all the additives in the prepared salad dressings.

This is the type of salad we had when I was growing up. I never had a 'wilted' salad, except if I ordered a spinach salad in a restaurant. DH's cousin asked me recently how I used my garden lettuce. I thought that was a strange question and told her I just used it in a 'regular' salad. She said her mom only fixed garden lettuce with a wilted dressing! Maybe it's a midwest thing? (I grew up on the east coast).

Interesting how we all have differing habits and ways of doing things.......

kathdavis

Oh, just enjoy it the way you like it. It is a seasonal dish and isn't something you will eat for very long. My mouth is watering!

TanyaL

With fresh fruits and vegetables available the year around at your local market, leaf lettuce isn't really seasonal anymore. Maybe homegrown is seasonal.

lydcnnr

Gma of 8, I tried the buttermilk and bacon last night for dinner--it wa SO good. I saved a little of the dressing and reheated it in the microwave and had another bowl before I went to bed!
Lyd

MdmSew'n'Sew

Is that condensed milk, the one full of sugar and a light caramel color, or is it the evaporated milk, no sugar, just thickened milk?

TanyaL

Oh. I am so sorry. That is evaporated milk. Can't imagine how awful it would be with condensed milk! Oh my bad!!!

dabbler312

We have always had our garden lettuce with fried crumbled bacon, and a dressing of half and half, sugar and cider vinegar (usually made with 2cups 1/2&1/2 and 1/4 cup each sugar and vinegar) and we eat ours on mashed potato with more crumbled bacon. It's an awesome seasonal meal - left over salad will not keep with dressing on it - it gets too mushy.