I couldn’t resist the urge to have some fun with my food today. I found a recipe in a cookbook for a salad where all the ingredients spelled something out. So I decided to put together a salad based on the name of my cat, Panther. He won’t eat it of course - it was just for my own amusement.

Panther’s Salad

No measurements. I just through the ingredients together at random, in random amounts, and arrange them so they look pretty on the plate.

Peas

Arugula

Napa Cabbage

Tomato

Hearts of Palm

Endive

Radish

What kinds of acronym salads can you come up with? If you need help, here are two sites that offer alphabetical lists of vegetables.

• Christ and Nic’s Recipes 
• List of Culinary Vegetables on Wikipedia 

Those are the two lists I used. The N really had me stumped and so did the H. But it worked out. I was thinking of garnishing it with bacon pieces, but it didn’t fit into the acronym! I may just do it anyway, but don’t tell.