My very favorite is the a variation on a Leptin Diet recipe. It's delicious--you can eat it daily for months, which I did, without getting tired of it. 

Start by making your dressing in the bottom of the salad/soup plate. I'll give you the classic, but you can play with this and make it your own: 

In the bottom of the plate, pour a couple of tablespoons of really good olive oil. I like the Kalamata Olive Oil sold at Trader Joe's. 

Add close to the same amount of red wine vinegar. 

Then mix in dijon mustard with a fork held flat until everything holds together. If it looks like you have too much mustard, add oil a few drops at a time until it barely begins to separate after you stop stirring. 

Now snip up some rosemary and a little thyme and stir it into the dressing.
Next, add lettuce, anything but iceberg. Romaine or butter lettuce are my favorites. Also add several largish leaves of basil, whole.  Toss it well with the fork so that the leaves are coated. 

Add just a few slices of good Roma tomatoes.

Then scatter over it some toasted pecans, some crumbled Gorgonzola, a little Parmesan, and just a few dried cherries.

Finally, top with about 6-7 jumbo shrimp, shelled and thawed.

Divine!

You can vary this by:

• Changing the vinegars in the dressing.  Try balsamic, white balsamic, tarragon, or even lemon or lime juice--even soy sauce.
• Changing the herbs.  Try tarragon (great with the tarragon vinegar), marjoram, lemon thyme, lavender buds, chives, or even cilantro (great with lemon or lime juice)
• Changing the cheeses--fontina is great; Romano is good; feta is good; chevre is good.  In fact I can't imagine what *wouldn't* be good.
• Changing the nuts.  Try sunflower seeds, pine nuts, almonds...
• Changing the dried fruits--cranberries are great.  Use soy sauce and lemongrass and Thai basil, and dried...mangos?  Papayas?  Bananas?
• Changing the protien: try interesting sausage or leftover interesting chicken instead of the shrimp.
  

You can make this so very many ways that there is almost no way to get tired of it.

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