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By Richard Whittington and Martin Webb
Published 1995
The house salad is of Little Gem lettuce, ripe avocado and Pecorino sardo cheese in a dressing that, until now, has been kept strictly in-house. Its popularity can be judged by the fact that Quag’s use an average of 1,000 lettuces a week in its preparation. Little Gems have a nice clean-tasting leaf, but you can also use cos lettuces. Buy avocados a few days in advance and leave them to ripen at room temperature. They are ripe when the skin gives easily to light pressure, leaving an indenta