A favorite side salad

While our Nevada daughter was here visiting, we celebrated several birthdays.  For granddaughter Julia's birthday meal, she requested shepherd's pie, one of her mom's specialties.  I was asked to bring a salad to the birthday supper, and this is what I chose to bring: Lemon Artichoke Romaine Salad.

I posted this recipe back in 2011, so many current readers may have missed it.  It is a real favorite of mine.  The dressing is so simple, calls for very ordinary staple ingredients, and yet tastes so special.  It's very light, also.

I found this salad in a Light and Tasty magazine some years ago, and we really enjoy it.  The flavors are perfect with any Italian-type main dish.  I have served it to company with lasagna (or even pizza many times).  If you are looking for a side dish to perk up spaghetti, pizza, calzone, or any Italian meal, you will want to give this a try.  You may find it perks up your old standard Italian style menus. 

It actually is a great accompaniment to any savory main dish;  it went perfectly with the shepherd's pie for Julia's meal.  I tripled the recipe because we had such a large group, and this time I chose not to use romaine, which has had a few issues of late.  I used an organic spring mix which included herbs -- I believe it was the Hannaford brand.   I didn't end up using all of the dressing, so left it there.  They used it on an antipasto type salad later in the week and loved it.

If you'd like a different salad recipe to add to your usual repertoire, you will want to try this one!