The Frugal Fourth Course Salad – With the Third Fork Cooking 101 Strategies Nutrition Etiquette and Frugal Stylish Recipes Professional & University Dining Etiquette

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by Harold Almon 
Be at Ease School of Etiquette Austin 
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Salad is to be offered and served after the main course. Sherbet (sorbet) can be served between the main course and the fourth course salad. Salad is to be eaten with the third fork. “Avoid spending your whole life making people eat their entrée with the third fork.”

Salad with lettuce and cheese (usually in cubes) with (club) crackers is to be the fourth course. It is to be served on a salad plate. Informally, if can be served in a salad bowl without an underlying plate. Cheese can be served on a separate plate.

Formally the (chilled) salad plate and flatware, atop it, can be brought in and set it place when the course is served.

Fancy as it gets the purpose of salad is to push out the course before it.

Frugal tip: Stop chopping lettuce, with a knife and from your life. Tear lettuce with your hands. Eat it with or after a meal.

It is roughage, used to help push things out. You have eaten. It has snowed. Now is the time to plow the road.

Suggestions for a salad course are:

Arugula
Bibb: you can make a simple Bibb lettuce salad
Endive
Iceberg (not recommended)
Mixed green salad (w/o sliced or diced tomat) or
Radicchio

Romaine lettuce and cheese with crackers can be served as a course salad.

Salad can be served as a main course.

Informally, you can Hail Caesar, if you know how. A Caesar Salad is to be made (w/ Romaine lettuce, shredded Parmesan, and croutons, and a classic Caesar dressing.) It can be more of a meal salad. It goes well with pizza. Pizza in squares may be served as a side to this salad. Tomatoes and cucumbers alone, or added to lettuce can be served as a side salad to pizza. Here if you wish, salad can be topped with broccoli, seeds or nuts.

Caesar salad can be found ready to make from a kit. Recipes for Caesar salad may be obtained from the internet along one for Insalata Caprese.
Cobb salad can be made with Romaine lettuce. It too can be more of a meal salad. You can learn to make a good and delicious Cobb Salad or Cube Salad. What to do get

•1 large cucumber
•2 beef steak tomatoes or cherry tomatoes
•1 yellow onion or long green onions or red onion
•1 Tablespoons dried basil
•1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
•1/4 cup of red wine vinegar,

Cube toss and chill. Sprinkle with oregano. Add lettuce mixed and serve. You can add a meat to it such as steak and get a Steak Cobb Salad. Recipes for Cobb salad can be obtained from the internet.

Spinach leaves and some cheese in cubes with crackers could be served as a course salad. This can be both frugal and flavorful.

Watercress, peas, and mandarin oranges can be added to a green leaf and cheese salad.

Green beans, artichoke hearts, and cherry tomatoes (cut in half) can be added to a green leaf salad. Italian dressing with shaved Parmesan may be added at plating. Some crushed red pepper flakes could add a hot bite. The more items added the more salad goes from a course to a new meal.

Remember salad can be topped with bacon bits, garbanzo beans, seasoned croutons, and or seeds, and be provided with signature crackers.

Salad served after the main course is to include cheese and is to be served cubed cheese with and club crackers. The cheese can be a hard cheese such as Edam, Emmenthal, Gouda or Jarlsberg. You get great presentation for a little money. It may be more traditionally a

Port Salut Cheese or

Bel Paese Cheese. It is your cheese you may slice it if you like. I have seen blue cheese served crumbled. Grated cheese I would reserve for pizza.

Non green salad can be served on a separate plate or on the same plate with the main course, so can a green salad, but the former, is not served as a separate course.

Ramen Alfalfa Sprouts Salad
What to do

Cook and drain noodles
Top with Alfalfa Sprouts and Peas.

You can cook or top with Tuna, Pine nuts, bits of Broccoli.

Top it with French Salad Dressing. You may substitute this with vinegar and oil.

The cheese can be cut-up slices of American. The Club crackers may be a la Ritz, until you get more square.

My Palate® Almon Hitt – Salads Vitamin K Micronutrients

Arugula
Bibb
Endive
Frisee
Mache
Mixed Green
Radicchio
Romaine
Spinach

My Palate® Almon Hitt - Salad Dressing

French Lemon and Olive Oil
Italian *Poppy Seed
*Can make you test positive for Poppy.

Oils
Avocado Oil
Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO)
Grape Seed Oil
Italian Dressing
Sesame Oil
Vinegar
Balsamic Vinegar
Infused Balsamic Vinegar
White Vinegar
Vinaigrette

Cheese
Pepper
Club Crackers