Little Gems & Shrimp Salad with Thousand Island Dressing

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Brown Sugar Kitchen: New-Style, Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland

By Tanya Holland

Published 2014

  • About

If you can’t find Little Gems, substitute romaine lettuce. You want a hearty green that can hold this thick, chunky dressing. I like the addition of shrimp in this salad, which turns it into a main course. At the restaurant, our smoker is always going, so we cook the shrimp in it to give the salad another layer of flavor. You can do the same at home, with a gas or charcoal grill, if you like. Many of us grew up with the bottled Thousand Island dressing, which seems quite mundane until you m