According to my Myers-Briggs personality type (ISFJ, dat’s me!), my kitchen style is farmhouse. That is SPOT ON, you guys, as I have been dreaming of a farmhouse sink and butcher block counters in my kitchen for ages.
Serve this easy chopped salad with classic Italian bread for lunch, or as an appetizer for Italian meatballs and pasta! Then keep on living the Italian dream with dessert! Try panna cotta, moist olive oil cake, ricotta blueberry cake, or raspberry pound cake tiramisu.
Whew, I’m so glad you came back. I was a little worried. Because I have big things to tell you about — BIG SALAD things, that is. Like the kind you see here, chockfull of lettuces and tomatoes and thinly sliced celery and red onion and salty olives and Parmesan cheese shavings and tangy pepperoncini peppers all tossed in an amazing classic Italian dressing. It’s the kind of salad I actually get excited about, which doesn’t happen often. But when it does, I.am.obsessed. And I make it eleventeen times in a row for lunch and dinner side salad and sometimes just actual dinner because I love it so much.
Though in the case of this salad, I made just one batch and have been crunching/munching away on it all week long. Because did I mention it’s a BIG salad? It totally is.
It seems like summer is finally popping in its sunshine-y face around these parts and with that comes my favorite thing to do of all the things — eat outside. All winter long I dream of sitting on my deck with a cold beer eating something from the grill for dinner with side dishes of the easy, cool, light, healthy, fresh, flavorful variety. This salad definitely fits that category. The most work you have to do to make this salad happen is chop up some veggies with a knife and give the homemade dressing a good ol’ shake in a Mason jar. Toss, toss, toss, devour. Repeat if desired. Do it all in the sunshine.
This salad would be great for parties and potlucks, too, many of which I’m sure you cool peeps have on the schedule for the summer. I have a few planned myself, but not enough to satisfy the number of times I’m going to crave this salad (which may just be every day, for real). So when I don’t have an occasion for which to bring the big salad, I’ll make one for myself, put some salad jars together with dressing on the bottom (because ain’t nobody got time for soggy salads), stock them in the fridge and enjoy them for lunches and dinners and the like all week long. This is my summer eating plan and I’m sticking to it. If you want to follow suit, I’d approve.
OK so tell me: What is your personality type’s kitchen style? And can I invite myself over to it with this salad? I can bring brownies, too.
Big Italian Salad
Ingredients
For the salad:
- 1 heart romaine lettuce, chopped
- 1 small head radicchio, cored and chopped
- ¼ head iceberg lettuce, chopped
- 1 celery rib, thinly sliced
- ½ small red onion, thinly sliced
- 1 cup grape tomatoes
- ½ cup pitted green olives
- 8 pepperoncini peppers
- 1 cup shaved Parmesan cheese
For the dressing:
- 6 tablespoons olive oil, 6 tbs = ¼ cup + 2 tbs
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a large bowl, gently toss together ingredients for salad. Add all ingredients for dressing to a resealable jar; seal jar and shake vigorously to combine (alternatively, combine ingredients in a small bowl and whisk together until well combined). Drizzle dressing over salad, lightly toss salad again, and serve immediately.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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This is my kind of salad, so fresh and colorful! And I’m an ISTJ, and now I have to know my kitchen personality, off to find out!
Love the colors of this salad!
Also, a few years back when I took the Myers-Briggs test I was an ENTP. Decided to take it again today in lieu of this post and apparently I’m now an ENFP (aka The Champion). I’ll take it.
Love this simple and bright salad! I am definitely an ENFJ and agree with fact that a kitchen should have a stunning view! 🙂
Stefanie — Elaine would be so proud!
First off loving the Seinfeld-ian big salad!! I’m INFJ so we are almost the same but my kitchen is so not me. Once we get in a house I am thinking my INFJ personality will be able to take over the kitchen!
This salad is beautiful! Big and bountiful! Just the way I like them!
Fellow ISFJ here! I dream of one day having a farmhouse kitchen. And that salad looks like the perfect recipe to make this weekend 🙂
Julie — WHYYYYY did I not even think of that? Clearly I’m off my game.
Taylor — Um, I see no reason to be embarrassed about that. Their salad is THE BEST. And I should totally put a copycat dressing on this next time! (also yay for ISFJs! :))
This is my kind of salad!! It looks so delicious, with a ton of great stuff 🙂 love it! Pinned 🙂