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

natlie

If I was going to have cold veg it would be:

peppers - roasted or raw
sweetcorn
peas
mangetout raw or cooked
green beans cooked
broad beans cooked
radish
beetroot
courgette raw or cooked
onion raw or cooked
carrots raw
olives
sundried tomatoes

I like cold peppers roasted with onions and garlic in oil and served cold with crusty bread and cheese
you could make a veggie quiche
cold pizza with roasted veg
bake potatoes when cooked take out of the oven mash the middle with cheese and anything else you like - sliced meat chopped up, beans, pineapple, spring onion, tuna etc and put back in the skins and into the oven until brown - these are amazing cold!
Nat

happyshopper

How about something like a ratatouille? Just stew up some chopped onions, peppers, courgettes, aubergine and tin of tomatoes with lots of garlic and herbs. It's lovely cold and would go great with ham and new pots.

hs

Bronnie

Russian Salad.....could add chopped green beans or little broad beans too

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/7025/easy-russian-salad



(Anyone remember the little tins of this Heinz used to make?!)

Boodle

If you're talking about cooked veg old, I would say pretty much anything. Green beans, broad beans, beetroot, peas, sweetcorn, aubergine, tomatoes... everything that comes to mind really. I used to often take cold roasted vegetables or beans to work in a tub, often mixed into a salad if there wasn't much left like tinned beans, cooked chicken or tuna, and with cold salad items like chopped cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce, red onion etc.

THIRZAH

This is an interesting thread. DH and I go walking with our Ramblers group one evening a week. The walks start at 7 pm and DH doesn't have time to get home, have dinner and get back for the start of the walk.I've started taking a meal into his office and we eat it in the rest room so the ideas posted here will be very useful-we were getting rather tired of cold meat and salad .We have tried heating up ready meals in the microwave but find that they can be a bit stoggy.

Boomdocker

To add extra veg to a salad I take add a couple of spoons of either frozen peas, soya beans, sweetcorn, broad beans straight from the freezer. I make my salad in the morning to take to work, they have defrosted by lunch time and are a nice addition to any salad.

outofmoney

I went with potato salad and carrot sticks in the end as I have to limit the amount of fibre I eat. That ruled out most veg, onions, lentils, beans etc.

However the suggestions sound really yummy and I am sure will be useful to many others reading.

lucylema

Hi,

What pasta salads, rice salads or basically salads full stop do you make. I am looking to make some for the weekend so your ideas would be fab!

Thank you.

Pink.

lucylema wrote: »

Hi,

What pasta salads, rice salads or basically salads full stop do you make. I am looking to make some for the weekend so your ideas would be fab!

Thank you.

Hi lucylema,

As your thread has dropped down the board with no replies I've added it to our main salad thread which should give you lots of ideas.

Pink

Edwardia

Late lunch here and as I munch my salad I wondered what other people put in theirs ?

Today mine is 2 large hardboiled eggs, 1 small Mozzarella, 2 teeny beetroot, 1 teeny courgette, 3 even teenier Heirloom tomatoes, 1 baby leek, 1 spring onion and 1 small carrot chunked up with a couple of dessertspoons of mayo stirred in.

Or do you buy bagged salads ? I haven't bought many just Italian salad from Lidl or bistro salad from ASDA/Sainsbury's or watercress spinach & rocket from Sainsbury's and Waitrose. I haven't found any discernable difference in quality or quantity of more expensive ingredients.

I haven't tried many so if you've found slugs or brown lettuce or caterpillars please share in case there is a particular store to avoid for salads !

What do you stick on yours ? Dressing ? Mayo ? Salad cream ?

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