I am just going to include the recipe for the salad dressing because I am sure you get the idea for the salad from my description. When the salad arrived at the table the youngest grandchildren always seemed to somehow make finger puppets out of the black olives much to the horror of my father-in-law who firmly believed you should not play with your food. It was usually quite a game in the kitchen when she was grating the cheese because her sons were always trying to nip off a piece of the cheese and she was always swatting them away. Fill with ice and water and let crisp up for about 10 minutes or until ice melts. Either way, the creamy dressing has plenty of garlic flavor and coats the pasta, romaine and croutons nicely. Rinse and chopped lettuce (s) and place in extra large bowl. She always added freshly grated Locatelli cheese right before mixing the salad. This salad was served at a dear friend's baby shower by a health-conscious friend, who suggested the dressing be prepared with low-fat or fat-free ingredients. There were always cut-up tomatoes, red onion, cucumbers, black olives, garbanzo beans, bell pepper, and any other vegetable she had in the refrigerator. She would start with iceberg and romaine. Linda’s salad was truly a combination of a lot of flavors. Everyone would pile the salad on our just used pasta plate because that little bit of meatball and gravy on a fork with the greens was a little bit of heaven. Somehow we all found room for this refreshing and delicious salad. After we finished filling our tummies to complete capacity, out would come not just a big salad but a HUGE salad. Linda would make the typical Sunday Gravy dinner – meatballs, sausage, pasta, and good crusty Italian bread. She’s old and wise, so much so that your own father’s afraid of her.“ The definition of a Nonna, Linda. I read this quote about an Italian grandmother which explains Linda completely – “ The Nonna is the true head of the Italian family. Chicken Avocado Salad - Romaine Lettuce, Fresh Mozzarella, Grape Tomatoes, Grilled Chicken & Fresh Basil. Otherwise known as garbanzo beans, these tasty little golden nuggets are a fantastic source of fiber as well as nutrients like folate, manganese, iron, magnesium, and phosphorus. And my mother-in-law, Linda, was our Nonna. Mozzarella also contains phosphorus, a mineral that allows the body to use calcium. Sunday dinner was mandatory at the Laganella household. Long before Elaine was ordering her big salad at Monk’s and Melissa Clark was teaching the world to toss a salad with your hands or the New York Times featured the Lucali Salad, every Sunday my mother-in-law, Linda, was making a big salad. “What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner – the nice, fresh, green, and crisp salad, full of life and health, which seems to invigorate the palate and dispose the masticating powers to a much longer duration.”
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