How Amanda does salad.

I'm weird about apples. I admitted it yesterday. But I'm even weirder with lettuce. Seriously.



I love romaine and pretty much romaine lettuce only. Other leafy greens are too "leafy" for my taste. I have to mix the leafier greens with the crunchy romaine in order to enjoy it. (Read: spinach)



Or cover the salad in these. I love them but I'm sure crispy onions are terrible for me. (As is terrible kitchen photography but you don't see me stopping that!)



Last night I made a huge salad without the crunchy stuff. (No croutons, tortilla strips, crispy onions or candied pecans) And dare I say it? I enjoyed it.

The ingredients:

Goat cheese
one whole sliced avocado
cherry tomatoes
shredded carrots
red leaf & romaine lettuce



And roasted figs topped with honey.



Delicious.



For the dressing, I spritzed the salad with olive oil and drizzled on some pear balsamic vinegar. It was so good! (Andy prefers vinegarettes but I love ranch dressing. I'm terrible. I know.)

Do any of you have this weird aversion to salads? I found that adding it tons of toppings and crunch helps me a ton. But God help me if someone offers me a spinach salad. I can't deal.

How do you get your leafy greens in? Any suggestions to help me learn to love greens?

(Would you guys be interested in reading about my (Amanda's) weight loss? I keep going back and forth on sharing that with the blog. But if you are interested I'll start a weekly segment.)