This is so good and exactly the way Sohla is most effective as a food presenter! I enjoy all the segments she's found that have her doing gimicky cooking, but THIS is what I want. Creative and beautiful food that seems like the kind of stuff she would make herself in real life. This inspires me so much: please keep Sohla coming to us in this format!!!
Of all the food-smart people out there, Sohla makes it the most approachable. The perfect balance of high level food thinking and home cook simplicity 👌🏼
I have been religiously watching food tv for decades, and I feel like I found a home with Sohla. I have never been so inspired to make so many new things while feeling completely unthreatened. Where have you been all my life, Sohla? (Also, sorry, I’m in Ham’s camp. I just shake up all my salads so all the bites have an equal balance. 😂)
Omg I definitely in Sohla’s camp. I want every bite to have a different narrative than the last! But I love everything you said and I just ADORE Ham! Inexplicably so! Hahaha Cheers! ❤️
this is the first time i haven't been in full agreement with sohla. it feels a bit discombobulating! but i'm in ham's camp too. and even more than that, i like chopping the ingredients (esp. lettuce) into bite-sized pieces so i can actually get several of them in my mouth at once and taste them together (and i don't have the mouth of like, a giant, idk). plus that way they don't go flying off the plate / out of my bowl when i go in for a bite.
Great tip on preheating the pan. Tucking that away for future reference. Thanks, also, for addressing how eggplant sucks up the oil. Good to know roasting will help release and distribute the oil.
I literally gasped when I saw this video! One of the most versatile dishes - the perfect thing to cover in this series. Off-script with Sohla is by far the best show on this channel. Thanks so much :)
Ha! How about tomatoes, mozzarella, a little anchovy and garlic in the dressing, plenty of basil, pepperoni or olives or artichokes or roasted peppers and onions....CROUTONS...pepperoni or sausage.... (But seriously: you. can't go wrong with pizza :) Thanks for watching, Avery!
I always end up hungry at the little Italian deli and spend like $50 to make 1 salad! Well, I still have stuff for 10 more. Mostly I replied because my name is Avery too.
My dog Rose, from long ago, raided my garden and ate all my arugula. She was also known to steal a cocktail. So props to Clementine. The salads look delicious!
I was already planning a nice bitter greens + wild rice + strawberry + pecan salad for this week, but now I'm gonna grill some provolone and make fried pepperoni "croutons" as well haha. Also now that I realize every sandwich can be a salad... I have so much work to do.
I’m a salad lover and I’m in love with both of these. I’ve never tasted Halumi or baked cheese. Excellent lesson and a delightful chef. Thank you so much. If I wasn’t already subscribed, I would have subscribed.
@@BooksRebound Yessss echoing this comment. I had it for the first time a few years ago and it's just so, SO GOOD. Want to get some and just throw it on the barbecue this summer!
@@BooksRebound That's so funny! They were apparently already obsessed in the'80s, too. My high school friend, who had spent her childhood in the UK, introduced me to halloumi. Her family grilled it on both sides -- YUM!
hahaha same here, I love seeing salads with the big leaves and everything, but when it actually comes to eating it, I like everything chopped fine and coated in dressing cuz it just makes it so much easier to get a bit of everything on your fork and so much more delicious
What to say about the Divine Miz S.? I love the way her hands, with such sensitive and respectful fingers, handle food...the sign of a born chef. Her sense of playfulness never spills over into smugness or triviality...again, respectful throughout. Her technique? She's got it. going. on. And her natural, unscripted, never-forced commentary - so enjoyable and inviting. Globally knowledgeable. Culturally fluent. Not since Julia Child, imo, has there been such a compelling, watchable food maker/recipe innovator and inventor. All hail Soula!
Had a poodle who ate watermelon - rind and all! He was also the best cow dog we ever had - so smart, rounded ‘em up without biting their tails, also rounded up the piglets we had to bottle fed when the sow had milk fever. We always knew which ones they were because later on these huge pigs would gather at the fence to touch noses with him! ❤️
I like the way Sohla thinks: She likes putting cooked items on her salads and isn't shy about using unusual ingredients. I NEED these great salad ideas!
Sohla! It's a good day when it's a new Sohla video day. Both salads look delicious. When I used to eat lunch at the office, I'd be a "Ham" salad eater. Mix it up and eat it, ain't nobody got time for two hour salad-grazing. Outside of that, I'm a "Sohla" salad eater. I want to leisurely meander through the yummies and it might take a while.
THANK you for having someone old enough to appreciate the Seinfeld reference working at Food52. I’m a food writer and recipe developer who’s also available. Worthy; one might say.
When I am really in the mood to eat and enjoy my meal, I make a big salad..it takes me at least half an hour to work through it and I thoroughly enjoy every varied bite.
Tried the Halloumi salad tonight for dinner and it was perfect. Definitely going to make it again. Gotta say, I love this series of videos, I always learn so much. 😎
My big takeaway is dressing at the bottom of the bowl. The number of times I have overdressed a salad by estimating wrong is legion. And I alway put all the toppings in the toss and wind up fishing them out. This is a keeper of a technique. Finally I'm not much of an eggplant person but it sounds really nice done this way. Thanks, Sohla.
I wish her rules for building a Big Salad were in the video too! It just seemed like two recipes that were only connected because they were both salads, without many specifics. But they looked delicious!
1. I had my earbuds in and this lion roar 14:58 threw me on the ceiling, don’t do this to me guys! I actually like whisking sounds, especially when you whisk meringue or cream by hand. 2. I use e.v.o.o abbreviation in my recipes that I write down too, I mean “great minds”. 😉 3. I agree with Sohla, salad wise. Your salads look beautiful, I just wanna tuck in, they’re fun and very inviting. 4. Love love love the name “Morty D”! 5. That orange calls for supreming, but that’s just my ocd talking. 6. Great recipe again Sohla, thanks for all the inspirations.
Never thought I’d disagree with Sohla, but yeah, big salad is all mixed up in a big bowl!!! But shredded mortadella crisps! I will absolutely try that on everything! That sounds genius!
It's not that expensive in the states, its basically fancy bologna (as you say poor guy's ham) with pistachios. But the italian spicing is way better than american bologna, to be sure.
Before I had a salad spinner I had a dedicated pillowcase that lived with my kitchen towels. Its entire existence was to contain the greens I'd washed and be taken outside to fling around in circles over my head until the greens were dry. It worked perfectly.
I saw a video where skme was prepping a lot of greens and they put them in a pillow case then set their washer to spin on delicate and did it in the washing machine. It was wild.
I am eating the big fat haloumi salad right now. (Using Jussto because that's what they had at the store). AMAZING. I too spent the first nine months of quarantine baking and now I am low carb and eating salads. Sohla saves the day.
Just a notice for anyone who hasn’t tried grilled hallumee, it’s one of the most delicious things you will ever have. Especially is such a kind of salad
I love salad and this made me want avocado-grapefruit salad. And also chickpea salad and summer tomato mozzarella salad and roasted pepper salad and allllll the salads 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Outstanding. Love your salads and mortadella noodle crisps, yummy. Ever try frying chopped ginger pieces making ginger crispies? Great on salads or pan fried salmon. Sohla sparks creativity.
Sohla is right about salad, too. A few years ago I secretly doubted any salad was actually 'good' - it was all either a slightly tastier version of healthy but not great or a slightly less tasty version (am I of anglo saxon heritage and raised in North American suburbia, you ask? why yes. yes I am.). Then I discovered this Thai shimp/peanut/mango/etc. salad at a local restaurant and went on this whole salad kick and WHAT THE HELL salad can literally be as good or better than all my favourite high fat, high salt comfort foods. It really can. Middle eastern salads, Thai salads, so many cultures know how to do it. My pro tip is to look into their methods and ways first. Chef John from Food Wishes also does an amazing radicchio salad (and I hate radicchio) that I can recommend. Gonna try both from this vid!
5:05 omg perfect. I have been agonizing about wanting to make a good cheese plate or charcuterie spread, but I know it's not the healthiest. So just throw it on properly seasoned, complementary greens. Nice.
You can tell good chief's like Sohla when they taste their ingredients as they are cooking. Jay Kenji Lopez Alt does the same thing too. Appreciating their ingredients (plus a snack) and checking seasoning as they cook.
Too me, Sohla is the queen of cooking and baking! She is my hero! I think it is funny how she likes to scrape and cut everything perfect! I mean, come on?!? Who needs a salad spinner when you can spin it in a towel just like her!🤣
For more of Sohla's rules for building a great Big Salad, be sure to check out her article on Food52: f52.co/3xFpMi6
GROSS and im not talking about the food
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@Joseph Zayd yup, I have been watching on flixzone} for since december myself :D
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This is so good and exactly the way Sohla is most effective as a food presenter! I enjoy all the segments she's found that have her doing gimicky cooking, but THIS is what I want. Creative and beautiful food that seems like the kind of stuff she would make herself in real life. This inspires me so much: please keep Sohla coming to us in this format!!!
100% agree.
I couldn’t agree more strongly with your comment if I tried
I second that!
Of all the food-smart people out there, Sohla makes it the most approachable. The perfect balance of high level food thinking and home cook simplicity 👌🏼
I have been religiously watching food tv for decades, and I feel like I found a home with Sohla. I have never been so inspired to make so many new things while feeling completely unthreatened. Where have you been all my life, Sohla?
(Also, sorry, I’m in Ham’s camp. I just shake up all my salads so all the bites have an equal balance. 😂)
Omg I definitely in Sohla’s camp. I want every bite to have a different narrative than the last!
But I love everything you said and I just ADORE Ham! Inexplicably so! Hahaha
Cheers! ❤️
this is the first time i haven't been in full agreement with sohla. it feels a bit discombobulating! but i'm in ham's camp too. and even more than that, i like chopping the ingredients (esp. lettuce) into bite-sized pieces so i can actually get several of them in my mouth at once and taste them together (and i don't have the mouth of like, a giant, idk). plus that way they don't go flying off the plate / out of my bowl when i go in for a bite.
Omg ham and sohla having that respectful disagreement at the end just made my heart swell
Me too. Relationship goals!
Sohla is booked and busy henny, everytime I refresh RUclips shes featured on a different RUclips channel, get that lacoinya.
Busy, booked, and blessed!
😍😍😍
She fucking deserves it after what BA put her through
@@CattyMcMeow yo for real, BA didn't deserve her expertise on every subject under the sun
Great tip on preheating the pan. Tucking that away for future reference. Thanks, also, for addressing how eggplant sucks up the oil. Good to know roasting will help release and distribute the oil.
So glad you found it helpful!
That lion roar to cover up the whisking noise took me by surprise.
It woke me from resting my eyes and I spilled my trail mix
Scared the ever-loving shit out of me.
@Shelly oh, it was lol
@Shelly oh but then a lion haha
Now your comment is top rated so I saw it before the video so no surprise
"This time last year I was only eating cinnamon rolls" -- hard agree
I literally gasped when I saw this video! One of the most versatile dishes - the perfect thing to cover in this series. Off-script with Sohla is by far the best show on this channel. Thanks so much :)
Sohla is blowing my mind with the idea of meat croutons and cheese croutons! These sound delicious and give me some really good ideas 😄💕
Yeah, definitely gonna make some cheese crunches and do salad this week, that should get my picky family to dig in more
“sohla’s rules for salads. nice” i click the link as i bring the pizza slice to my lips
Ha! How about tomatoes, mozzarella, a little anchovy and garlic in the dressing, plenty of basil, pepperoni or olives or artichokes or roasted peppers and onions....CROUTONS...pepperoni or sausage.... (But seriously: you. can't go wrong with pizza :) Thanks for watching, Avery!
@@food52 if this is Sohla just say so
lol, i am also eating pizza while watching
I always end up hungry at the little Italian deli and spend like $50 to make 1 salad! Well, I still have stuff for 10 more. Mostly I replied because my name is Avery too.
literally as i eat reeses
Ham has really grown on me, he's so incredibly supportive and their relationship is just lovely! such a great dynamic
My dog Rose, from long ago, raided my garden and ate all my arugula. She was also known to steal a cocktail. So props to Clementine. The salads look delicious!
Sounds like Rose and Clementine would have gotten along! :) Thanks for sharing, Cyn.
I was already planning a nice bitter greens + wild rice + strawberry + pecan salad for this week, but now I'm gonna grill some provolone and make fried pepperoni "croutons" as well haha.
Also now that I realize every sandwich can be a salad... I have so much work to do.
I’m a salad lover and I’m in love with both of these. I’ve never tasted Halumi or baked cheese. Excellent lesson and a delightful chef. Thank you so much. If I wasn’t already subscribed, I would have subscribed.
@@BooksRebound Yessss echoing this comment. I had it for the first time a few years ago and it's just so, SO GOOD. Want to get some and just throw it on the barbecue this summer!
Yes, you must try halloumi!
It's my favorite cheese!
@@BooksRebound That's so funny! They were apparently already obsessed in the'80s, too. My high school friend, who had spent her childhood in the UK, introduced me to halloumi. Her family grilled it on both sides -- YUM!
@@BooksRebound I will!! Wouldn’t want to miss out on some other kind of wonderfulness.
Sohla's Big Salad presentation is beautiful, but I'm team Ham.
I always plate my salads as beautifully as I can, but then I mix it all up as soon I start eating lol
hahaha same here, I love seeing salads with the big leaves and everything, but when it actually comes to eating it, I like everything chopped fine and coated in dressing cuz it just makes it so much easier to get a bit of everything on your fork and so much more delicious
"Just know that you're wrong." Lol
I am 59 years old and today I learned that the little white blobs in mortadella where, in fact, blobs of fat, not tasteless cheese pockets.
Her love for food is just so contagious.
I love Sohla and Ham's relationship shown at the end of the video. Ham knowing that "choosing her own adventure" including salad presentation 🥺
Sohla genuinely enjoys cooking. It comes through.
Had never seen a Sohla cooking video until this weekend. Now I’ve seen at least 10 in the last few days. Great stuff 👍
What to say about the Divine Miz S.? I love the way her hands, with such sensitive and respectful fingers, handle food...the sign of a born chef. Her sense of playfulness never spills over into smugness or triviality...again, respectful throughout. Her technique? She's got it. going. on. And her natural, unscripted, never-forced commentary - so enjoyable and inviting. Globally knowledgeable. Culturally fluent. Not since Julia Child, imo, has there been such a compelling, watchable food maker/recipe innovator and inventor. All hail Soula!
The world is a better place with Sohla videos.
Had a poodle who ate watermelon - rind and all! He was also the best cow dog we ever had - so smart, rounded ‘em up without biting their tails, also rounded up the piglets we had to bottle fed when the sow had milk fever. We always knew which ones they were because later on these huge pigs would gather at the fence to touch noses with him! ❤️
I like the way Sohla thinks: She likes putting cooked items on her salads and isn't shy about using unusual ingredients. I NEED these great salad ideas!
Premium content : when you see Sohla spinning salad leaves like a shotput
Sohla! It's a good day when it's a new Sohla video day. Both salads look delicious. When I used to eat lunch at the office, I'd be a "Ham" salad eater. Mix it up and eat it, ain't nobody got time for two hour salad-grazing. Outside of that, I'm a "Sohla" salad eater. I want to leisurely meander through the yummies and it might take a while.
If you ever have another restaurant, it would be cool to offer your salads either Ham style or Sohla style.
THANK you for having someone old enough to appreciate the Seinfeld reference working at Food52. I’m a food writer and recipe developer who’s also available. Worthy; one might say.
We're hiring, Maiasatara! Check out our job listings here: food52.com/jobs :)
I am so excited to try that halloumi salad! Thanks for the inspo
I love watching Sohla and Ham interact. What a power couple!!
Team Sohla! I feel like my mood changes while eating something like a salad, so it's nice to have the option to change it up as you go along.
When I am really in the mood to eat and enjoy my meal, I make a big salad..it takes me at least half an hour to work through it and I thoroughly enjoy every varied bite.
I love off script, the best
This was great! We need to see Sohla more often.
So glad I found this! Sohla rules!!! Great presence and great food ideas!
I don't have words for how adorable and lovable I find Sohla El-Waylly. She emanates such warmth I just want to hug her. ❤❤
Tried the Halloumi salad tonight for dinner and it was perfect. Definitely going to make it again. Gotta say, I love this series of videos, I always learn so much. 😎
Entertaining, educational, inspirational, and yet I feel refreshed and relaxed while enjoying the presentation. I can't get enough of Sohla content.
Omg, is anyone else blown away by the salad spinner hack??? Sohla, you culinary hack genius!! I can get some exercise in while cooking 🤣
Toasted cheese is such a joy! I've recently discovered bread cheese. Toasted, drizzled with honey and topped with berries is lunch all to itself!
My big takeaway is dressing at the bottom of the bowl. The number of times I have overdressed a salad by estimating wrong is legion. And I alway put all the toppings in the toss and wind up fishing them out. This is a keeper of a technique. Finally I'm not much of an eggplant person but it sounds really nice done this way. Thanks, Sohla.
I wish her rules for building a Big Salad were in the video too! It just seemed like two recipes that were only connected because they were both salads, without many specifics. But they looked delicious!
Yeah, definitely gonna go read the accompanying article looking for her rules/ratios, those were so great for beans and greens etc
Thank you for your creativity. My partner & I made the first salad tonight it was amazing! Definitely a keeper. Can’t wait to try the other salad.
1. I had my earbuds in and this lion roar 14:58 threw me on the ceiling, don’t do this to me guys! I actually like whisking sounds, especially when you whisk meringue or cream by hand.
2. I use e.v.o.o abbreviation in my recipes that I write down too, I mean “great minds”. 😉
3. I agree with Sohla, salad wise. Your salads look beautiful, I just wanna tuck in, they’re fun and very inviting.
4. Love love love the name “Morty D”!
5. That orange calls for supreming, but that’s just my ocd talking.
6. Great recipe again Sohla, thanks for all the inspirations.
Never thought I’d disagree with Sohla, but yeah, big salad is all mixed up in a big bowl!!! But shredded mortadella crisps! I will absolutely try that on everything! That sounds genius!
Gosh, she's so lovely and funny! Thanks for these! I love it when Sohla goes off script.
This series is so educational! Love it
Finding out Sohla and I both have that Labrador bowl fills me with a joy I can’t quite explain
As Italian, never thought of putting mortadella into a salad...I’ll try it for sure 😉
i learned a lot from this and i love sohla’s personality!! she rules
I find it so funny that mortadela is such a fancy thing in the US because in Brazil it's super cheap and like a "poor guy's ham"
It's not that expensive in the states, its basically fancy bologna (as you say poor guy's ham) with pistachios. But the italian spicing is way better than american bologna, to be sure.
It’s not fancy it’s just expensive
@@kristindemaria2327 Fancier than Oscar Meyer.... Cheers!
Same in Venezuela. Although with the current economic situation, I guess it's a luxury now.
Before I had a salad spinner I had a dedicated pillowcase that lived with my kitchen towels. Its entire existence was to contain the greens I'd washed and be taken outside to fling around in circles over my head until the greens were dry. It worked perfectly.
I saw a video where skme was prepping a lot of greens and they put them in a pillow case then set their washer to spin on delicate and did it in the washing machine. It was wild.
I am eating the big fat haloumi salad right now. (Using Jussto because that's what they had at the store). AMAZING. I too spent the first nine months of quarantine baking and now I am low carb and eating salads. Sohla saves the day.
This video has done the impossible and made me want to eat eggplant. That haloumi salad though!
I LOVE that her baking pans and oven look like mine……. NOT new looking but definitely used! ❤️
Sohla is my kitchen savior!
Sohla, you are the best! Me, a person who likes neither aubergine nor halloumi, can’t wait to make these salads! Only you could have done that!
As always, Large Bowl MVP
Gorgeous salads and inspirational thank you
Sohla was become my favorite person to watch. She’s so creative and so care free but intentional at the same time.
I love how much fun she has with the lettuce! I sometimes skip it in my salads because I hate washing and drying it.
You should do like "cooking with dog" and put Clementine on a highchair next to you while you cook!
☝️☝️☝️pls food52!!!
And the name of that show should be "A recipe for tragedy"
Martha Stewart used to do this with two dogs sitting on bar stools on Martha's cooking school. I loved it!!
Rest in peace dog.
(Sohla should try it once -before it's too late)-
@@nodezsh It had been so long since i watched that channel. RIP Francis.
Just found you.....I am in LOVE!!!! Thank you so much for this channel!!!!
Those salads look amazing! Making me so hungry right now!
Thanks. These salads are great. Love the work you do!
That's exactly like how I like to do it, change it up each bite. Looks so good.
Sohla is always a mood
The salads look great. However, the dog is downright adorable.
I would love the second salad. I could eat it every day.
Just a notice for anyone who hasn’t tried grilled hallumee, it’s one of the most delicious things you will ever have. Especially is such a kind of salad
Love you guys! And the inspiration for the salads too!
Seeing ham wear the telfar converse tee was perfection!
Ham's t-shirt game is always 🎯
Just great salads! I would have never thought of these. They're delicious!!
Gotta love Sohla. Whatever she does, I'm here.
Sohla is the Bob Ross of cooking videos ...LOL I could listen to her 24/7
"Just know that you're wrong" gave me flashbacks to Emma's "And that's a choice..." from the Pickle Sandwich video.
The cross-show love warms our hearts! Thanks, Duy
BEAUTIFUL, the salad looks good too!
They look fantastic and I am a fan of "choosing (my) own adventure" and taking my time eating my salad. It's the journey...not the destination!
We totally get that, Kathy! Hope you give these a try.
Love the off script series! It’s inspiring me to try new recipes :)
So happy to hear that, JustCaite! Thanks for letting us know
I'm going to make both these salads. Never thought of making a chiffonade of mortadella and frying it up. Wonderful idea!
My Slovak grandmother used to make fried bologna for me, and it was sososo good. I totally use mortadella as an excuse to eat balogna as an adult!
Alternately, for a ham and cheese salad, you could just make a cheese salad and have your husband sit next to you, 😂
Omg I’m very sensitive to noises and covering the whisk sounds made me feel seen and appreciated, thank you
Thank you Sohla, just what I needed to get better at making salads!!
I love this so much. Now I want to make an incredible salad to go along with tonights dinner! Thanks Sohla!
Sohla is the most lovable cook on the internet.
I'm definitely going to try and make that second salad! It looks soooooo good.
Sohla is such a breath of fresh air.
I love salad and this made me want avocado-grapefruit salad. And also chickpea salad and summer tomato mozzarella salad and roasted pepper salad and allllll the salads 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Outstanding. Love your salads and mortadella noodle crisps, yummy. Ever try frying chopped ginger pieces making ginger crispies? Great on salads or pan fried salmon. Sohla sparks creativity.
Sohla is right about salad, too. A few years ago I secretly doubted any salad was actually 'good' - it was all either a slightly tastier version of healthy but not great or a slightly less tasty version (am I of anglo saxon heritage and raised in North American suburbia, you ask? why yes. yes I am.). Then I discovered this Thai shimp/peanut/mango/etc. salad at a local restaurant and went on this whole salad kick and WHAT THE HELL salad can literally be as good or better than all my favourite high fat, high salt comfort foods. It really can. Middle eastern salads, Thai salads, so many cultures know how to do it. My pro tip is to look into their methods and ways first. Chef John from Food Wishes also does an amazing radicchio salad (and I hate radicchio) that I can recommend. Gonna try both from this vid!
5:05 omg perfect. I have been agonizing about wanting to make a good cheese plate or charcuterie spread, but I know it's not the healthiest.
So just throw it on properly seasoned, complementary greens. Nice.
Sohlas timing on saying “no big deal” is spot on each time....comes after I say, damn I don’t think I have that. 🙌🏼
Such a fan of Sohla, especially because she looks like my niece and seems to be just as cool and sweet! Also I love how she describes food like me!
You can tell good chief's like Sohla when they taste their ingredients as they are cooking. Jay Kenji Lopez Alt does the same thing too. Appreciating their ingredients (plus a snack) and checking seasoning as they cook.
Too me, Sohla is the queen of cooking and baking! She is my hero! I think it is funny how she likes to scrape and cut everything perfect! I mean, come on?!? Who needs a salad spinner when you can spin it in a towel just like her!🤣
Sohla looks so lovely here! Like absolutely radiant! Awesome episode
Wow Sohla’s hair looks so shiny and healthy! Love it. Also the salads look incredible 😂
YESSS, I've been thinking about how to make salads lately!! Thank youuu