Iceberg stack with blue cheese and radishes from The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Recipes and Wisdom from an Obsessive Home Cook (page 61) by Deb Perelman

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Ingredients

iceberg lettuce
celery
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EYB Comments

The online recipe link is just for the blue cheese dressing.

Where’s the full recipe - why can I only see the ingredients?

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The online recipe link is just for the blue cheese dressing.
Pandan on May 20, 2024

This was quite nice, I only tried a portion without blue cheese, but my husband loved it. Made it with beef bacon and scallions instead of chives. The dressing could have been a bit less liquid. Next time I should use a different blue cheese. I used Gorgonzola which was hard to crumble.
averythingcooks on June 17, 2023

This was a perfect fresh and crunchy side for some steak sandwiches. I love blue cheese but I do appreciate that the dressing itself does not contain the cheese (better fridge life for sure) and the ability to plate salads closer to each of our likings. The celery is expected (and always good) but we also liked the pancetta & the radishes and I can see making this again just for us or as a showier salad platter for guests as she describes in the book.
ldyndiuk on June 08, 2022

Lovely crunchy salad! I will definitely make this again. Just a note about the link to the online version of the recipe - it’s not the exact same recipe as it doesn’t include the radishes and celery. It looks the same otherwise though.
Silverscreensuppers on December 19, 2016

Ha ha - my mum told me that about lettuce too! Love this reclamation of the humble iceberg. Tasty and pretty too, loved it.
louie734 on January 07, 2014

YES. Crunchy and cool. Surprisingly, the remainder of the iceberg - sliced with a knife in crass disregard for all maternal advice regarding lettuce longevity - survived very well in the crisper, even living to see another salad.