That does sound like an excellent salad!

The following is my wife’s Caesar salad dressing. People really love it even those that don’t like anchovies

Cesar salad dressing
One can anchovies
Four cloves garlic
Mash together
Three-quarter cup olive oil
3 tablespoons red wine vinegar (When I make it, I use about a quarter cup of red wine vinegar)
Teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
teaspoon Dijon mustard
Most of half a lemon

It’s funny you should ask whether I use anchovy paste or anchovies from a can or bottle.

When I don’t feel like making the above recipe, I will use just Olive oil and red wine vinegar,or Newman own Caesar salad dressing which is really pretty darn good.

I used to mix it with anchovy paste. Then I went to a restaurant and had a Caesar salad where it had little pieces of anchovies in it, and they were just great. I immediately stopped using the anchovy paste and I use half a can of anchovies cut into bits size pieces, which I then mix with the salad dressing Before putting it in the salad.

I even mix about a quarter can of cut pieces of anchovies with my wife’s salad dressing.

So there’s a few different ways I use anchovies and salad dressing.