“Oh my....” I thought this was a nice friendly cooking site. I’m rather disappointed that this has turned into a “cruelty to animals” discussion. I don’t think it belongs here. There are many other places to debate raising, killing, and eating animals. Yes, obviously there are two sides to the story, and I respect that. However, this IS a food site, and it is not strictly a vegetarian site. By the way, I too am a vegetarian, but enjoy the site just as well. It’s sort of like religion, isn’t it? If you are not religious, don’t go into a church and complain that they preach religion.

I really want to make this salad after having something similar at the New Seasons tasting last week during their Tomato tasting extravaganza. Instead of an olive oil type dressing, they used a house made arugula pesto, of which they passed out the recipe of the pesto, but not the salad they actually sampled. I may make a combination of the two somehow. All I know is the salad I tasted was fantastic, and this one looks just as good. I can’t wait to try it at home!

We tried it and it was “killer” good. We’ll make it again!!

This salad was really good. The picture was so appealing I had to try it and got my man to try it with me. We would make it again, with a few changes; I would not salt the vegetables in the step it says to. We think it caused the veggies to “drain” too much, and ours was watery when we ate it later. Also, due to that, we would take pains to make sure everything, especially the lettuce was bone dry before making the salad. And then we’d salt the salad right before eating it. One more thing? Your suggestion was to soft boil the eggs for 6 to 8 minutes, and we thought, “oh, that’s way too long. We like a 4-5 min. soft boiled egg.” We were wrong; go the 7-8 minutes! You don’t want runny whites on a salad like that. Runny yolks yes, not the whites! All in all, a very nice surprise having a salad with eggs for breakfast. Thanks for the recipe!

Yum. It all sounds yummy to me. Now hash is on my list for a filling supper as well. I liked the suggestion of pouring beaten eggs on top of some hash, topping with some cheese and baking. Yikes! I’m gonna go buy some potatoes and get busy. You all have made me hungry!