Easy Cobb Salad

As a young person, growing into adulthood, I had a few select salads that I knew and stuck with in life.  My first salad was a Chef salad.  I vividly remember ordering this at restaurants because I knew it was a safe and good choice.  A few years later (college era) I found to love Cobb salad.  At this time, I began a liking to avocado and hard boiled eggs.  Together they are a great source of protein, and fresh simple foods.

So, what exactly makes a Cobb salad?  Typically I think of it as:  lettuce, bacon, hard-boiled eggs, cheese, tomatoes, avocadoes, and Ranch dressing.  Wikipedia tells me to remember the acronyms like this: EAT COBB: eggs, avocado, tomato, chicken, onion, bleu-cheese, and bacon for this salad’s ingredients.

So my version omits the chicken and onion, and red-wine vinaigrette (but please add them to yours if you like).  I love bleu-cheese, but some members of my family do not (I am not disclosing names here ;)).  Sometimes I use bleu-cheese, otherwise feta cheese is great, too.

I like this salad, becausI it is filling, especially if I am using it as the main dish.  It is packed with some great sources of protein.  For the dressing, if your family enjoys Ranch dressing as much as ours – it’s just the right excuse to have that on the table, too!

Not a Ranch fan? Other compatible dressings are: bleu-cheese, green goddess, or a red-wine vinaigrette.