summer's here....any salad recipes?

PasturesNew

hot.chick wrote: »

Hi All,

At the age of 32 I today tried a salad for the 1st time!!!

You've never had lettuce/cucumber/tomato before? Blimey.

LeeSouthEast

Pink-winged wrote: »

One of my favourites is tricolore which is tomato, avocado and buffalo mozzarella with a garlic and balsamic dressing and torn basil leaves.

That sounds absolutely delicious. Thank you!

ifonlyitwaseasier

black pudding and new potato salad!!!

you need:
black pudding (if you don't like it use chorizo)
cooked new potatoes
lettuce (i find little gem is best)
onion (i cut it in half, then slice so i have long strips of onion)
fried/poached egg
a little olive oil

i cook the pots, chop the lettuce, chop the onion, cook the black pudding,
poach/fry egg

to assemble i put the lettuce, onion and pot's in first, then sprinkle the black pudding, add the egg on top and then a tiny drizzle of olive oil

taste lovely and is a bit different to some of the basic lettuce/tomato/cucumber versions.

hth

ioiwe x

geordie_joe

hot.chick wrote: »

What your fave, simplest, exotic, or whatever salad - all things connsidered!

The thing about salads is you can use anything you like. If you like it, put it in, if you don't then don't put it in.

hot.chick

Just wanted to say thanks for all the replies....

No - never had normal salad before - my mum was forced to eat things she didn't like so swore she would never make me eat anything I didn't like, and I have ended up being quite fussy.

Don't eat salad, greens, most Veg etc.....

So am just trying to be abit of a grown up and get over it - so took the plunge and eat the lettace garnish that was presented on my lunch - my husband was completetly shocked!!!

So - wish me luck have ordered a couple of bags of leaves with the Mr T shop delivered tomorrow, fingers crossed they get eaten and don't end up 2 bags of mush!

:rotfl:

Bronnie

hot.chick wrote: »

Just wanted to say thanks for all the replies....

No - never had normal salad before - my mum was forced to eat things she didn't like so swore she would never make me eat anything I didn't like, and I have ended up being quite fussy.

Don't eat salad, greens, most Veg etc.....

So am just trying to be abit of a grown up and get over it - so took the plunge and eat the lettace garnish that was presented on my lunch - my husband was completetly shocked!!!

So - wish me luck have ordered a couple of bags of leaves with the Mr T shop delivered tomorrow, fingers crossed they get eaten and don't end up 2 bags of mush!

:rotfl:

I hope you now start to enjoy the wonderful world of salad and veggies!
As has been said, you can throw in whatever you like, try adding fruit and nuts to your salads too and experiment with dressings. There are loads of ideas online. I can't imagine meals without these foods!!!

Interesting side issue for parents here!
Can I ask, from where you're at at the moment, ie 32 and just starting to introduce these healthy foods into your diet, do you think if your mum had encouraged/ persuaded/ persisted (not forced) you to eat salads and veggies, rather than leaving it up to you, you would have accepted them as part of your diet sooner?

Mrs_Bones

You are not on your own hot.chick, I never started eating salads till a few years ago. When I was a kid a salad was just lettuce, cucumber and tomato plonked on top. It was only when I went to a friends and she'd done one for tea, and well it's rude not to eat what your given when your out, I tried salad again, only she'd put a dressing on the salad and it tasted lovely.
I now love salads, dressings make so much difference and there is such a wide choice to choose from.

kunekune

I like a warm chicken liver salad: a base of mixed leaves, toasted almonds, slivers of red pepper & raw carrot, then cook chicken livers in a bit of olive oil. When they are just done (should be a little pink on the inside), add some balsamic vinegar to the pan, let it sizzle and then pour it onto the salad (it becomes the dressing). You can do something similar with strips of chicken tossed in Moroccan spices - with this one, dress the salad and skip the vinegar stage.

hot.chick

hmmm... when I was a baby my mum used to make all my food - as you did in those days I ate what they ate, as I got older I started to get fussy, she did try to hide things, grated onion into mince etc... but I always found it and then refused to eat it.

As I said she was forced to eat her nightmare food which is peas, to the point of not being allowed to leave the tble for hours - so she would eat them then throw up to be allowed down from the table!!! barbaric to say the least - she eats most things but had a problem with this item, so as she had such a bad exp she never forced me to eat anything.

Not sure how she could have made me eat it - I was quite a stubbourn child!!

I've always looked at salads and loved the smell, but the eating 'leaves' thng didn't sit right with me, I took the plunge yesterday and although V unfamiliar I persivired and eat all the leaves that were there, and have 2 fresh bags on order.

Will stick to leaves at the mo - no sure I will ever grduate to a tomato, the thought of it makes me sick!

Thanks again for all your replies.

x

tiff

I find this thread incredible. Do your kids a favour and make them eat veg and salad! My two dont like lettuce, but like cucumber, tomato, peppers, beans etc so they have everything bar lettuce.