Salmon Cobb Salad

Every home cook knows how satisfying it is to put together a terrific tasting dish in almost no time using whatever you have on hand in your pantry and fridge. Most often these recipes are never-to-be-repeated spur-of-the-moment flashes of genius, but every once in a while one of them becomes the family’s favorite slapdash dinner, the one you return to and refine over time as the items in your pantry may vary. That’s precisely the story of cobb salad. It was invented on a whim and became an American classic. Official legend has it that this famous dish came about in 1937 when Bob Cobb, then the owner of Hollywood’s renowned Brown Derby Restaurant, was about to prepare dinner and looked for inspiration inside the refrigerator. He pulled out a little of this, a little of that and put together a dish that became an immediate hit. This is obviously a recipe you can change over and over. Our family likes it with leftover salmon because it makes the salad light and refreshing, but filling enough to satisfy.