Cobblog - All Cobb, All the Time

This is a blog about my favorite and the most perfect meal ever: the Cobb Salad.

Named for Robert Cobb of the Brown Derby in LA, most varieties have these ingredients in common:
Some type of crisp lettuce or mixture, boiled egg, bacon, chicken breast, avocado, tomato, chives, and bleu cheese.

This blog explores the endless possibilities of the Cobb Salad, highlights jobs well done as well as failed attempts.

Enjoy!


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Lord Nelson, Halifax NS

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 

Ok I realize that I’m straying from the original purpose and mission of this blog which is to be All Cobb All the Time. Sometimes I just have to write about that which inspires me. 

I eat a lot of room service and hotel food.  Typically I try to keep it on the healthy side and typically I expect the food to be good but not necessarily excellent.  That is why I still can’t find my socks since they were knocked off by the Lord Nelson Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  I am not certain, but I believe that the name of the hotel restaurant is Victoria Arms.  Roasted Tomato and Spinach Salad is my subject here.

For the first time in recent memory, I had a meal at a hotel that was truly spectacular. There wasn’t one single wilted leaf in the bowl and a perfectly fresh, green, and plump spinach leaf brings us closer to God.  Many times the delicate unenhanced flavor of a green is overpowered by its bowl mates; not in this case.  The aforementioned flawless leaves were joined by several roasted Roma Tomatoes.

They had a full flavor from perfect seasoning and smoky grill essence. It was as if the skins had been emptied, the contents cooked, and then reassembled, all the while maintaining that ever elusive tomatoness found only in freshly picked, organically grown-on-a-grandpa’s-back-porch-in-a-black-plastic-pot-tomatoes.

I don’t know why these two ingredients worked so perfectly together but they did. I was actually smiling while eating it.  There was just a bit too much balsamic vinaigrette on it, but otherwise, it was truly a perfect meal.  The two main ingredients were exquisite in their simplicity and their noncompetitive partnership.

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