-This salad can be stretched by adding a few more cups of greens. Keep the other ingredients the same and add up to 5 cups of additional lettuce. -If you are plating the salads individually for a table, go ahead and plate the lettuce, walnuts, figs, goat cheese and top with yam strips up to an hour before serving. Drizzle with dressing no more than 15 minutes ahead. -When assembling this salad in a bowl, toss all ingredients and save a bit of the goat cheese, chopped figs, walnuts and yams for topping the salad.