Tonight was going to do shepherds pie and had second thoughts on account of the waves of heat in our kitchen so I raided the crisper and veg basket. More by fortune than judgement it turned out ace! But I want more, especially now I’m getting excited about salad it’s unusual! This made such a gobtastic meal with the spuds, that I nearly forgot about the omelette. All 3 together?
‘Full meal’ salad recipes even better. What have you got? 🙂
Fresh Onion and Fennel Salad Recipe
1 x med/large diced onion (ideally half a red onion, half a brown onion)
I large thickly-grated carrot
1/3 fresh fennel bulb chopped small, incl all small leaves at top.
half a yellow pepper diced
4-5 small whole vine tomatoes and/or 3 diced fresh tomatoes
Handful washed rocket rocket
Dressing:
Salt shake
White pepper shake
3 shakes of balsamic vinegar
1 shake of garlic granules
1 x teaspoon finely chopped fresh mint
1 x 1 x tablespoon mayonnaise ( I use Hellman’s Vegan, as find it lighter and fresher-tasting)
Mix all ingredients together in salad bowl until combined evenly.
Serve with:
– Small new/Jersey potatoes, boiled, buttered and minted.
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– (3 egg) mushroom, grated cheese and broccoli omelette. (Chop fine and stir fry broccoli and mushrooms before adding the seasoned* eggs and grated cheese mix)
* 1/2 teaspoon all purpose seasoning, shake of garlic granules, ground black pepper.
Salads need to be kept simple.
bag of salad
Few sprigs of asparagus (is sprig the right word?!)
1 poached egg
3 or 4 boiled and buttered new potatoes
Maybe a slice or 2 of crispy, streaky bacon
Grate a few slices of Parmesan on top and you’re sorted.
Or a simple, Greek salad.
Good tomatoes
Cucumber
Red onion
Shed load of feta
Lashings of good olive oil
Olives
Then throw over some dried oregano
Add good bread as you see fit.
I like Pasta Salad, with butter fried chicken, Peppers, Spring Onion, Raddish, Avocado, Tomatoes, and other things that slip my mind. What really makes it though, is tearing up a load of Serrano ham and throwing that in. Just a bit of Mayo mixed in. Yum Yum.
Diced watermelon, crumbled feta cheese and either fresh mint or basil, finely chopped. Decent splash of olive oil over the top. Goes great with meat-heavy BBQs. The feta is salty enough already, you don’t need to add any more salt.
Finely chop an onion and fry it until starting to caramelise. Add a can of cooked+drained lentils, stir for a while then allow to cool. Crumble feta into it, then stir in a couple of teaspoons of mint sauce.
Or the classic: ripe tomato, make sure it’s at room temp if you’ve been keeping it in the fridge, slice it, splash of olive oil and a decent amount of salt.
Chèvre Chaud has to be my favourite. Go for usual mixed salad leaves, tomatoes, cucumber. Toast some walnuts. Toast some sliced baguette and liberally spread goats cheese on and put in the oven or under the grill. Layer on top of the salad, drizzle with honey and decent home made vinaigrette. Finally sprinkle on the walnuts and personally I really like a handful of raspberries too. Best. Salad. Going.
For the salad
2 small red onions, peeled and sliced as thinly as possible
1 tsp sumac (or juice of 1 lemon)
seeds from 1 pomegranate
1 large bunch of parsley
pinch of salt
1 tbsp olive oil
Mix the ingredients about 45 minutes before serving.
leaves plus crunchy stuff ( celery, cucumber, peppers) plus some onions and green beans ( blanched). tomatoes that have been sat in salt and vinegar ( just a pinch and a splash) for a bit to make them yummy, olives load of olive oil over the top feta cheese in cubes
Take 1 wife to Waitrose
Wait in car for 30 – 40 minutes simmering gently in the heat
Remove wife from supermarket and place carefully into the kitchen
Take large Pimms into the garden and ponder life for approximately 45 minutes
Return to a beautiful salad ready to eat
Take a chilled bottle of white from the fridge and compliment the wife on how well we work together
We’ve recently taken to using Chinese cabbage in salads (it was initially bought to have a go at kimchi). That along with whatever is in the fridge makes up the salad du jour. So tonight:
Shredded Chinese cabbage
Sliced onion
Sliced mooli (white radish also bought with kimchi in mind)
Mix the above dress with french dressing.
Add on top sliced beetroot, tomato, sliced new potatoes, more dressing.
Top with tuna mixed with half a tin of mixed beans, sliced olives and capers.
We also had broccoli in danger of going yellow so sliced thinly, dressed with soy sauce/sesame oil mix. Served separately. Surprisingly pleasant raw.
Never tried that. Noticed recently that one of our neighbours have figs wasting on the tree, I’ll see if I can beat the birds to a few! #seedymanoeuvresafterdark
Thought about adding some fat juicy sultanas or some of those flame raisins, and maybe a few smoshed hazelnuts.
Thanks! just had this for lunch and can confirm it’s delicious!
Mine is a simple; Caprese; slice ripe tomato and mozzarella lay alternately on a plate, few basil leaves, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar dressing on top, salt/pepper to taste.