Just what is a chef's salad? Traditional chef's salads have lettuce, hard-boiled egg, cheese, and meat. The best chef's salads have your favorite ingredients that are incredibly fresh. Here are some ideas for building your perfect chef's salad for that tasty sandwich meal.

Chef's Salad Ingredient Ideas

I am sitting here with a HUGE bowl of salad and a tiny sandwich. The salad has various greens, radish, cucumber, mushrooms, tomatoes, carrots, cabbage, garbanzo beans, grated egg, cheese, ham, turkey, and homemade Thousand Island dressing. OOPS! I also had sunflower seeds and bacon bits.

I love using both Italian dressing and blue cheese dressing on the same salad.

Toasted sunflower seeds are wonderful on a salad. I also adore Dorothy Lynch dressing.

We now have garden fresh lettuce for our salads. Soon, we'll have sugar snap peas.

I am looking forward to a big salad tomorrow!