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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35,000 Feet, Seat 2D LGA to MSP

12/7/09

I’m sure you can imagine my excitement when the flight attendant listed a Cobb Salad as one of my meal choices on my recent flight from LGA to MSP (that’s New York to Minneapolis for land lubbers).  I should have known it was too good to be true. It came and it was a Cobb Salad WRAP! 

I decided to review it anyway though because they actually did a pretty decent job on it.  I know that the tendency for wrap is to stuff a spinach tortilla full of lettuce, throw some bacon bits on it, douse it with a nondescript fatty dressing and call it a day.  Well whomever catered this did well.  The spinach tortilla was moist and tender with the proper amount of chewiness.  The contents were the usual suspects of pieces of chicken breast, boiled egg, bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, and blue cheese.  There were so many ways to mess this up, especially since it was airline food.  The chicken was tender and perfectly cooked, the boiled egg was also freshly made and had a wonderful flavor.  The bacon was real and they hold back; the tomatoes were diced smaller than I like, but that was necessary because of the small scale of the wrap.  The only negative criticism I have is that there was too much blue cheese in it.  That being said, it would have been really cheap and easy to just fill up the thing with lettuce and skimp on the other stuff, kudos to them for not doing that. I did end up eating the second half with a fork, holding the tortilla like a cup (watching the ol’ carb intake).

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