Salads are better without the leaves

Have you considered going leafless?

Sure, salad greens taste (mostly) good and are, as this incredibly informative Q&A on Grub Street reminded us this week, “one of the few foods you can pretty much eat without limit.” For your health and your happiness, you should not abandon leaves entirely. 

But I do love a leafless salad.

A leafless salad, as you might expect, is a salad without the leaves. To be clear, this is not necessarily the same thing as a “grain bowl.” While a bowl generally has a grain base, like rice or quinoa, a leafless salad has no base at all. Instead, it is comprised of all the good parts of salad — the chickpeas, the crunchy vegetables, the protein, perhaps a grain in a supporting role — without the hindrance of All Those Leaves. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Salads are better without the leaves