Lettuce, cucumber and tomato.

Gingham_Ribbon

Oh yum! Thanks everyone. I'll let you know how I get on.

Noozan

Slice a chunk of cucumber lengthways, then slice into diagonal slices and use in a stir fry.

Noozan

Stir fry some minced pork with finely diced onion and mushrooms, season with oyster sauce and black pepper. Add a splash of water to moisten if it's looking dry. Serve in lettuce leaves. (Looks very nice if you use little gem lettuce)

CuddlesTC

My friend makes the best salad with those ingredients plus an onion: roughly chop all the ingredients then dress with fresh lemon juice and mustard infused olive oil (I've never seen this in the shops - she gets hers from the local Indian supermarket). It's lovely and even goes nicely with curry.

Edit: Actually, it might be mustard oil rather than mustard infused oil, now I think about it.

charlies_mum

My Mum used to make cucumber and onions in vinegar - just slice your cucumber and put into vinegar with onion rings and let it soak. Lovely and tasty on salads or to add to sandwiches.

MATH

Am I alone in being a Salad Mad Nutter?

Jazz up a CTL tossed salad by adding

Cubes of crumbly cheese and tinned or fresh cubed pineapple

or

Cold sliced sausages, chives and soured cream

or

tinned sweetcorn and flaked tuna

or

prawns, cooked pasta and rose marie sauce

or

cold crispy bacon or palma ham and hm garlic croutons

or

crispy bacon and cubed apple

or

shredded curried chicken and cold cooked rice

HTH

Ticklemouse

MATH - I'll be round in a while. Any of those variations will do :drool:

I like lettuce and tomato butties - fresh bread, bit of salt and some salad cream. Add the cucumber if you want, but I don't. On it's own or add meat or cheese etc. Simple and yummy.

Debt_Free_Chick

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

I don't normally use lettuce or cucumber and the thought tends to remind me of limp 'salads' from the 80s when vegetarians couldn't find anything to eat out.:D

I do sympathise as we would not go for the 80s style limp salad. However, one of my favourite foods throughout the summer is a storming fresh salad .. which I eat with nothing other than freshly ground salt & pepper.

In particular ... if the lettuce and cuke are really, really tasty .. then that's what I like.

If you must, then make a really good dressing e.g. nut vinegar (hazlenut, walnut), nut oil (hazlenut, walnut) or tasteless oil e.g. groundnut ... crushed garlic, salt, pepper and ... if you wish, some mustard (dry e.g. Colmans' English or Dijon or wholegrain), or substitute vinegar for lemon juice .. or lime juice. Either way, put the whole lot in a jam jar and shake yer bootie

We don't like limp salad .. but we love our homegrown "fresh out of the garden" salad

homersimpson_3

Am I alone in being a Salad Mad Nutter?

no- i know lots of salad nutters- great for getting some of 5 a day and so versatile.

Anne_Marie_2

I'm with Debt-free-chick & Math on this - I love my salad.:j

I like to make a wee bowl of salad up with a lot my food, whether it be pizza or pasta, mexican...........but then I eat funny foods being a veggie.:D

Generally only make a wee bowl for myself, as the other 2 just leave unless we are having wraps.

I like salad plain, I like it with dressing. Just depends on what I am eating.

My wee bowl can be any sort of lettuce leaves shredded, possibly spinach or rocket leafs, grated carrot, spring onions (or onion rings), sliced cucumber, celery and tomato, sometimes raw mushrooms - all depends on what I have.

Home grown is the best, and cost is very little for the seeds........pick as you go. Although we have a garden, I do all mine in pots (albeit large ones), as its easier for me to cope with. If you have room for a pot or have a window box, you can grow your own.