Relax Up Here

Fresh salads are especially popular in summer as a light meal.

Whether one believes or not, but lettuce has a calming effect. From the Roman historian Tacitus reported that before going to bed always ate a bowl of salad. He said that he could sleep very well afterwards.
Today we know that he was right: In the green salad is opiumähnlicher contain a substance that calms the nerves. Even the stomach nerves!

Thus, the salad is pretty crisp, one should note the following:
Lettuce leaves should always be dried thoroughly, so that the sauce can adhere better to the leaves and not watered down. The best way to use a salad spinner. You can also pat the leaves dry with paper towels. Or they are placed between two kitchen towels, carefully rolled up the loose. The so dried out lettuce leaves should only be given to the sauce just before serving, or they merge into and become lax and unsightly.

If you do not want to use the fresh salad on the same day, raises one of the best washed, dried lettuce leaves on it: loose in a hermetically sealable bowl, each store may be a layer of paper towels in between and in the refrigerator. Or type in a foil pouch inflated, sealed, put into the vegetable drawer. So the salad until the next day is pretty crisp. Only the more stable Iceberg lettuce keeps fresh even without special treatment for several days.