A couple of months ago my friend took me out for lunch to a cool little restaurant in Leesburg, The Eiffel Tower Cafe. (We both have a little love affair with all things French.) The food in general was very good but what particularly made us swoon was the "Wild Mushroom Salad with Goat Cheese". I start salivating every time I think about it. Yum.
The first time we were there, the food was delivered and looked delicious but I told her I would resist the temptation to Instagram my food. The second time I had no such scruples and I took this cell phone shot of that delightful salad. (It would be a mistake to find this salad lacking based on the poor quality of photos that my cell phone takes.)
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The other day, after having tended to a sick child all day, I suddenly
got a hankering for this salad. (Which is not really shocking because ever since I first had it, I've pretty much craved this salad nonstop.) As I
was saying, I was hungry for this salad. My husband was headed to grab something from the grocery
store so I asked him to pick up greens, mushrooms and goat cheese. While he was doing that, I made a balsamic vinegar reduction, which turned out to be pretty easy.
He came home with spinach as the greens. I wouldn't recommend spinach for future endeavors but it still wasn't bad.
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Next I went to the grocery store. I must have caught them right before
restocking because they were a little low on things and didn't have
endive so I tried it with romaine and a mushroom medley. I liked the
mushroom medley. I liked the romaine better than the spinach but it
still couldn't compare with the original.
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So the quest for the perfect salad continues (because I'm telling you, this salad *is* perfect).
By the way, since I was already sauteing mushrooms, I also sauteed some tofu and put a tofu and mushroom mixture on top of some Shirataki Noodles. That was yummy too.
"The Quest for the Perfect Salad"
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