Tired of mundane Romaine lettuce drenched with ranch dressing? If you like to create your own salads, RealSimple.com provides four ways to spice up your supper.

• Fried chicken salad: Tender, boneless chicken will provide your salad with a finishing touch. Combine corn, lima beans, pepper, and celery to make the salad. Mustard, olive oil, salt, pepper, and vinegar should be whisked together to form the vinaigrette. Once the vinaigrette and salad are mixed, top it off with the chicken pieces.

• Great Greek salad: A combination of Feta cheese, cucumbers, tomatoes, olives, and pepperoncini provide the basis for the ideal “Greek salad.” Create your own basil oil dressing from blending olive oil, basil leaves and salt.

• Grilled everything salad: Who said that steak and salad don’t mix? This spicy salad is definitely filling: cover the spinach salad with chopped steak pieces and drizzle the dish with vinaigrette dressing (horseradish, olive oil, salt, pepper, and vinegar).

• Ham and black-eyed pea salad: This unique salad is colorful and simple to create. Combine black-eyed peas, bell peppers, carrots, cabbage, celery, and ham in a large bowl. Create your dressing by mixing mustard, olive oil, salt, vinegar, and pepper. Pour the vinaigrette dressing over your salad and refrigerate for several hours so the flavors can combine.

The recipes for the above salad possibilities can be found at Real Simple.