14 Layer Salad

Aaron mentioned he used to like 7 Layer salads when he was a kid. I decided to make one for the holiday weekend, but since I am an overachiever, I made a 14 Layer salad!

For a typical 7 Layer Salad you can layer the basic 7 items - lettuce, hard boiled eggs, bacon, celery, onions, peas and cheese. This varies from recipe to recipe to recipe to recipe.

If you want to go for the gold with a 14 Layer Salad - ljc style, then include the addition of spinach, radishes, carrots, mushrooms, peppers, broccoli and cauliflower.

Then the dressing that goes on top is 1 cup mayo, 1 cup sour cream, 1 Tablespoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of Lawry's season salt.

The Zillion Layer Salad (as Aaron begain to refer to is as) goes great with BBQ Pork Spareribs on the grill. This was our first try at ribs on the grill and they turned out pretty darn tasty. What is Memorial Day weekend without lots of grilling?

Buffalo Chicken Salad

Every thursday at the office I get excited because it's Buffalo Chicken Salad day in the cafeteria. One night I was thinking about dinner and realized that a BCS would be pretty easy to make at home. Especially with Wegman's new frozen Spicy Bites chicken! I even think I could make the entire meal with only Wegman's brand ingredients. I take that as a challenge sometimes.

The salad mimics buffalo wings but in salad form. It's just lettuce with the spicy chicken chunks, chopped up celery, blue cheese bits and blue cheese dressing. The Spicy Bites turned out to be so spicy I didn't need any of the extra wing sauce. Nom!