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Recipe: Salad Days |
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This is not really a salad, but more of a three day excursion.
Or to put it another way, this could be ‘salad-making as
occupational therapy….’ You need: A really big shallow dish, the flatter the better, (within reason - if the dish you are planning on using is normally situated on the roof and is your only access to the Discovery Channel, then you are being a little over-ambitious. Put that dish back and call the engineer). Lettuce type leaves, Tomatoes, Eggs, Artichoke hearts, Prawns, Anchovies, Crab Meat (luxury option), Tuna fish, String Beans and Olives. You could use onions if you really wanted to, but I have never got that far with this particular project. |
You will also find useful: A huge jar of Hellman’s mayonnaise (if you are the person reading this who makes bucket loads of mayonnaise from scratch as a matter of course then you clearly don’t need this recipe in the first place) A good homemade vinaigrette (what, and mayonnaise? Yes indeedy.) Salt, pepper, olive oil, excellent wine vinegar –(along with the mayonnaise and the vinaigrette? Absolutement, mes enfants) Deal with the lettuce leaves. The thing is to try and make a bed of leaves as your base. At this point you will remember that you will be using hard boiled eggs and cooked prawns. Good idea to put a couple of pots of water on the cooker. |
Boil eggs, cook prawns, slice tomatoes, make a tomato layer on top of the lettuce and season—making sure there is plenty of salt and good wine vinegar on the tomatoes, and then, with no fear, slosh on some of your home-made vinaigrette. Peel eggs and swear violently. Pick egg-shell out of the tomatoes. Make a pretty design round the edge of the dish with artichoke hearts and eggs (cut in half). Make criss-cross patterns over the eggs with the anchovies. Stand back and have a creative moment. Prawns and tuna go in the middle, topped off with a dollop of mayonnaise. To create the ‘not too immediately artistically obvious Tate Modern effect’, do a little random scattering of string beans. Add olives at will. |
Wok luck! Lemon Grass in Rethymnon
Thanks to Albert for letting us know about this shop. If going along the beach road towards
Perivolia, turn right at the Porto Rethymno hotel and you will find a Greek / Russian mini-market
about two thirds of the way up the street on the right-hand side. This shop has an eclectic selection
of products including Balkan hot sauces, spicy Korean carrot pickle made in Poland (?!), Indonesian
spice mixes and pastes and powdered lemon grass. Oh, and roll-mops and baked beans….
Cocktail of the Month: Pimms - What else for Wimbledon? |
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Ingredients: Pimms No 1, lemonade, ice, fruit - strawberries, apples,
oranges, lemons. Herbs: Mint, Borage (NOT PORRIDGE!). Cut the fruit into decorative slices and chunks. In a large jug mix 1/3 Pimms to 2/3rd lemonade. Add ice, fruit, mint and borage leaves. Pour into long glasses. Sit back and watch the tennis. Mrs. Beeton Groupies
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