Greek Salad variant
Greek Salad variant
Greek salad without lettuce.
We like our salads without lettuce, except Caesar. A little chicken on the side.
Cost per person, $13. Literally as much as the steak from the other day. This is why society is doomed.
My grocer calls this (plus kalamata olives) "Authentic Greek Salad." $6.50 for 8 oz. They also sell "Greek Salad" which is the same exact thing but on top of a head of sliced Romaine lettuce, $14.00 for a big bowlful. Or I can buy the head of Romaine f $3.50 and rinse and slice it myself. Maybe add a little more vinaigrette from my fridge. My doc wants me to eat green leafies. Moo.
In greece lettuceless Greek salads are more common.
Cherry tomato Greek salads though .. super rare.
These are definitely not cherry tomatoes, but close enough.
I've always preferred Greek salad without the lettuce. It just gets soggy too quickly. A lettuce-less Greek salad also keeps decently well for a day or two.
I remember being freshly 18/19 preparing dinners for ourselves for the fist time out on our own, my sister and I just decided we don't like the lettuce, it does absolutely get soggy, why does it need to be in there? Thus, we came up with lettuceless salads, already a thing.
I like to take these basically same ingredients and dice them as nice as I can manage, add herbage, little olive oil and lemon mmmmm Best salad on a summer day aye
13$ per person for a salad? I can make this exact salad with ingredients from my local supermarket for maybe 3€ per portion.
Add it up. Feta: $5.64 Red onion: 80¢ Red bell pepper: $1.68 Green bell pepper: 68¢ Chicken thighs: $5.60 Cucumbers: $2.11 Tiny tomatoes: $1.98 Olive oil: 30¢ Lemons: 28¢ Oregano: 5¢ Red wine vinegar: 10¢ Garlic, pepper, homemade Greek seasoning mix for the chicken, more olive oil for the baked Chicken, etc.
Go ahead. Go figure out the cost for every single item and divide it by the two people I'm cooking for. Show your work. Make sure to use Lancaster South Carolina prices instead of whatever European country you are buying in. I'll wait.
Honestly, prices in the United States for some items seem very high, at least to me. I have full confidence in your calculations. Here's the equivalent cost from Germany:
Feta: 1.89 Red Onion: 0.5 Red bell pepper: 0.7 Green bell pepper 0.7 Chicken thigh: 2.8 Cucumber: 0.79 Tiny tomatoes: 0.99 Olive oil: 0.3 Lemons: 0.69 Oregano: 0.1 Red wine vinegar: 0.1 (all values in Euro)
While Americans tend to earn higher wages, this really illustrates why ppp calculations matter.
Honestly you are not far off by my estimate. I actually made this same meal just two weeks ago, in New England, for reference.
No feta for us, and i use Hot House tomatoes (bought the Canadian ones, something just over $3 a pound), and I use a whole bundle of cilantro $1. I served it with Cajun thighs, got the small pack, $5, made the dressing with Cajun seasoning too, I was obsessed with this salad
I made enough probably to feed five servings of salad, three servings of chicken. I went to the store soley for dinner's produce and chicken. I might have gotten an extra onion for the house and maybe some bananas too, both cheap items but. . . $40 receipt. Take off for the couple extras, its likely $30-$35
I remember saying, damn, about it at checkout
Half these ingredients needed are planted in my garden right now lmao hoping they grow alright and save us some pennies