Category Archives: salad
Roasted Cauliflower Salad with Spanish Goats Cheese
I no longer think of cauliflower as the unnecessary vegetable. It is subtly sweet and nutty and really just delightful. For our passover seder last week I was asked to bring a salad, so after buying an enormous and perfect head of cauliflower for $3 (and then lugging it home) I decided to roast it [...]
Fig Salad
Quick. Before the figs finish, stock up! I know, I know, there are more sumptuous and decadent ways to prepare figs, but none are as quick, nor as easy to do as this, using just what is on your fridge. I never have fancy smallgoods just lolling around in my fridge (though, were I a [...]
Corn Salad
I have a bone to pick with corn. How can something be so delicious and so infuriating at the same time? The noise most people make when eating corn off the cob makes my skin crawl, plus your teeth get filled with strings! As a child I remember picking the corn kernels off one by [...]
Roast Duck and Noodle Salad, the perfect mid-week indulgence
Sometimes work is such a drag, you know, going to the same place everyday doing that 9 – 5 thing (or til 6 if you’re lucky like me) can really get you down. Holidays feel like they happened an age ago and it’s months until the next long weekend. You wonder why you have to [...]
Fresh Tomato Salsa, or how to use up the limes.
Part two of how to use up those millions of limes is about salsa. And it failed. Failed entirely to use up my overabundance of limes. It did, however succeed in being delicious. Spicy, tangy, hot and sweet all at the same time, which I thought was Thai cuisines thing, but no, apparently Mexico is [...]
