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

Souk08

These sound lovely. Tomorrow/Sat's lunch at work will be tuna, sweetcorn and spring onion pasta salad, with lots of salad cream. Yum!

xangeleyes

My salad usually contains:

Lettuce
Tommys
Cucumbers
Red Peppers
Spring Onions or Red onions.

On the side we will have perhaps some Ham/Chicken and some cheese.

If I'm not in a healthy mind I might toss it in black pepper and extra virgin olive oil It really is nice

lostinrates

Salad in very variable here...to keep it interesting. May favourite thing to do though, is cut every thing into very small cubes, which makes it like a salsa almost, and every mouthful is full of different flavours.

BUT, tonight salad (home grown mixed lettuce, for the first time this year, cucumber, tomato, beetroot, an apple and cucumber) is dressed in a spicy dressing (bought, and ridiculously expensive but one bottle lasts us at least a year and we love it) Usually I make a dressing. I also love salad dressed with just the juice of half an orange.

Gintotmelinda

Whoopsied bacon chops with an egg, peas and oven chips.

gintot

ianbar0

lasagne we had with salad, was 2nd warm up and tasted fab!

nickyhutch

Is it only me who thinks salad with hot stuff (lasagne, pizza etc.) is a bit, well... wrong/weird?

My salads are usually lettuce (wedge of iceberg), cuc, red onion, peppers, celery, hard boiled eggs, radish and sweetcorn, with tuna or ham or chicken, or salmon.

Butterfly_Brain

• Chicken tikka
• Gammon steaks with a cheese sauce sprinkled with toasted breadcrumbs
• HM cheese and onion pie
• Tuna and sweetcorn mixed with mayo
• Honey and mustard pork chops or chicken
• meat or tuna lasagne
• chicken pieces sprinkled with all purpose seasoning and baked in the oven
• Boiled gammon with mashed potato, salad and pickles
• mushroom risotto
• sausage plait
• sticky pork ribs
• pork chops covered with mozzarella

My actual salad is a mix of iceberg lettuce, lollo rosso lettuce, rocket, baby leaf spinach, and chard with grated carrot, sliced mushrooms, tomatoes, cucumber, radish and spring onions

Sambucus_Nigra

Yesterday's salad was a mix of leaves from the garden, with toms and avocado and 2 asparagus spears [steamed before mixing in], with added pickled courgettes from last year chopped very finely, with a vinagrette dressing; plus a cucumber and mayo side salad...alongside some hot spinach and ricotta ravioli with goats cheese and home grown sun dried toms made into a sauce. It was scrummy.

All my salads I just pick what's in the garden and use what's in the fridge to bulk it out.

Dazi

my lunch today, was:
Lettuce
Cucumber
Tomato
Raddish
Red onion
Coleslaw
Couscous
a bit of leftover ham

I take the above most days, the ham is replaced by cheese or whatever is leftover, could be chicken etc

And everyone at work says ohhhh that looks lovely and goes out and buys plastic tubs containing......oh what I have in mine lol aparently they can't do it cos it takes too long, I timed myself this morning making lunch, took me 7 mins including chopping up fruit for a lunch time 'pudding'

Paulie'sGirl

English Breakfast Salad

Bag of mixed leaves, wafer thin slivers of red onion, cucumber for me, thin slices of apple and carrot.

I use large "steaks" of bacon recovered from Sainsbury's cooking bacon. I grill one-between-two til crispy then slice thinly. I grill 2halves of tomato each at the same time. For OH I do a semi-soft boiled egg. Some times I add sautee pots

Scrummy and a bit different

I like a walnut oil and white wine vinegar dressing with a touch of dijon. :D