I'm gonna slice a lemon in two

[venta]

While doing something work-related online, I ended up reading this recipe. Which was not work-related.

Anyway, the recipe is for "Spinach, blueberry, almond and blue cheese jar salad". Which seems to be like a regular salad, except you put the ingredients in layers. In a jar. And I thought, err, yes. Pretty. But surely it'd be a right old pain to eat?

Then I scrolled down, and discovered that the page has an entire repertoire of "jar salads". Is putting salad in a jar a Thing now?

Do you eat it out of the jar, or decant onto a plate? Isn't a 1kg Mason jar a rather heavy thing to carry your bait to work in? (Though I concede it might be more environmentally-friendly than a plastic box.) Is a jar salad purely something to be used in some form of office lunch oneupmanship contest, only to be trumped when people begin carrying their packups in shabby-chic'd furniture, or recycled kimonos?

Enquiring minds need to know.

Comments

[lathany.livejournal.com]

I have no idea either; I never was a fashionable lunch person. I'll be interested in the answer!

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

See eric with this week's letter.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes! Just reading it on the tube this morning. I'm impressed at your timeliness :)

Article makes it sound more practical, though I'm still a little unclear about how one eats it (out of the jar, in the manner of an archeological dig, or decanted onto a plate).

(Updates to follow, for anyone else interested...)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Amazingly, this week's letter from the mother included a clipping of an article about just this topic (pretty impressive since she posted it two days before I asked the question).

This:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11739154/The-best-jar-salad-recipes-for-on-the-go-lunches.html
is the online version of the clipping. It explains some of the reasons why you might want to put a salad in a jar in such a fancypants manner.

Still doesn't explain how to eat it, though! If I can locate a suitable jar, I might give it a try and report back.

[kotturinn.livejournal.com]

Very pretty. While I was [still] at work I did things like that, re-using plastic containers like the ones chilled fresh soups of Innocent's ready meals came in. As to how I ate - depended on what the contents were - some were fine just digging in (in more of a gardening than archaeological sense), others benefited from being decanted.

If only I'd known I was, for once, ahead of the curve - or would have been if I'd used one of my old Kilner preserving jars instead :-)