"fall salad" with seafood stew

[stellabella]

I'm serving a tomato/fennel/thyme, etc-based seafood stew at a dinner party, and I need a good salad to accompany. I am coming up with no ideas. I keep thinking beets, but I want color variation, and complementary flavors.

Help?

[bigbear]

Waldorf?

[CathyL]

With a highly-flavored seafood stew, I'd want something clean and simple. Green beans with lemon/EVOO or a sherry vinaigrette? Or how about a classic tricolore - romaine, radicchio, endive?

[Jinmyo]

Arugala with seared radicchio and pearl onions?

[researchgal]

that sounds good, Jin. What treatment do you give the onions?

[Liza]

The silent kind?

[researchgal]

The silent kind? 

There's one in every crowd

I had a funny feeling as a typed the word "treatment"...

[Adam Balic]

Baby spinach leaves + rocket with pear and red fleshed figs. PX sherry vinaigrette. Would normally put in a few shavings of Parmesan, but not with fish stew.

[Jinmyo]

that sounds good, Jin.  What treatment do you give the onions?

Shock to remove the skins, marinate in hot vinegar and herbs. Then caramelize in butter or duck fat.

[stellabella]

wow

so many great ideas--thanks

i like 'em all, & am most intrigued by "figs" at this very moment.

have already decided to serve cheeses with apple & pear slices after [or before]

[SobaAddict70]

Roast butternut squash or acorn squash. Scoop out pulp, mix with unsalted butter, light cream. Add a sprinkle of cinnamon, nutmeg, maybe some allspice. A little (just a little, mind you) brown sugar or date sugar. Fold in a little mascarpone if you want. Puree, and mix all ingredients thoroughly.

Shape into rounds using either buttered ramekins or a biscuit cutter.

Spoon over each squash round a spiced fruit chutney. (I vary the ingredients of the chatni from time to time. Right now, the batch in my fridge includes plums, nectarines, dried apricots, pears, dried currants, apple cider vinegar, golden sultana raisins, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, brown sugar, fresh cracked black pepper, and pomegranate syrup (sp).)

Serve IMMEDIATELY.

SA

[Kim WB]

Serve IMMEDIATELY.

SA

I would think so, becasue this sounds so delicious to me, I would inhale any servings not served immediately!!

[mixmaster b]

Another idea is a raw artichoke salad--thinly sliced, served with arugula, parmesan, and a lemon vinaigrette. Very thinly sliced mushrooms are nice with this as well.

[stellabella]

thanks to the suggestions, here's what i ended up doing: red leaf lettuce with very thin sliced shallot--not much--pomegranite seeds, thinly sliced tart red apple [my husband bought them and forgot what kind , but i think rome], and a few toasted walnuts, with sherry vinaigrette, which my friend helped me make--he's much better at dressings than i--we used a little sherry and a little red wine vinegar for acidity, salt and pepper, pressed garlic, EVOO, a tsp of dijon, and a splash of water

the stew was very rich, and we ate the salad after--perfect

thanks