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Comfort food - summer seventies salads

by Gillian Polack

Summer storms flitted around Canberra today.

By the time dinnertime was upon me, I just wanted some comfort food. I made an avocado salad with tomato and salt and mountain pepper and lots of lemon juice. This is a terribly seventies style of salad.

I have a cookbook from Louisiana from the seventies. It’s one of the tens of thousands that everyone typed up and sold for charity. It also describes salads, but they include tinned food and packet food and all sorts of strange powders and odd concoctions.

If I come across the book in the next couple of days I’ll find you a couple of recipes. Naturally, if there are scones and biscuits I will add them, but mostly I’ll look for salads, I think. Given this weather, it’s only natural I be fascinated by seventies salads.

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Posted in General, recipe on November 13th, 2006

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6 Responses to “Comfort food - summer seventies salads”

  1. Farley Says:
    November 13th, 2006 at 11:26 pm

    My mom used to make this salad that had to be from the 70’s. And I grew up next door to Louisiana so maybe it’s in that book. I think it was iceberg topped with canned pear halves, mayo, and cheddar. Anyone else heard of this and does it have a name?

  2. Gillian Says:
    November 14th, 2006 at 12:25 am

    I can’t find that particular bok. I rather think cookboks go into hiding the moment I start looking. I’ll watch out for it, though, and when it appears I’ll look for your salad.

    How did it taste, BTW? it’s not a combination of ingredients that I’ve tried.

  3. Farley Says:
    November 14th, 2006 at 1:24 am

    Honestly, I can’t remember. But I was rather picky and I think I ate it. p.s. My latest post is for you.

  4. Gillian Says:
    November 14th, 2006 at 1:32 am

    Ooh! I’m racing to read it *now* :).

  5. D.T. Kelly Says:
    November 14th, 2006 at 11:45 pm

    Avocados are a favorite for salads in my house.

    Also love mashing it with cilantro, a little mayo and mixing it with rice on a wrap.

    Man, now I want avocados!

  6. Teddy Gross Says:
    November 15th, 2006 at 3:24 am

    Seventies or not - I still make the Avacodo salad when they are in season here. Some of my kids love it some wont touch the Avacodo. It is usually though gobbled up.

    So I guess I am still living in the seventies. My kids tell me that all the time!

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