Dinner salads are tricky. You're basically juggling three slightly contradictory concepts. You want the lightness and freshness of a salad. You want to be full and satisfied after dinner. And you don't in any way, shape. or form want to create some kind of horrible Applebee's salad monstrosity full of iceberg lettuce and deep-fried things. But I have a few things I like to do with a dinner salad that I think makes for some good eating. And to illustrate them, Tuesday night's dinner salad: