Here’s another versatile, healthy and delicious salad, which I happened to serve, accompanied by barbequed, sake-marinated spatchcock, to a friend recently ….
TICKING THE BOXES WITH PRAWNS AND TOMATOES
TOMATO, CUCUMBER AND DILL SALAD
VIBRANT VEG
FENNEL AND BLOOD ORANGE SALAD
DEFINING SALAD
SPANISH MELON SALAD
The most common melon in Spain is the Sapo de Piel, literally ‘toad skin’ melon, but it’s often called Christmas melon too because it keeps so well. It’s deliciously sweet when ripe, which is when the skin turns bright yellow between the characteristic dark green markings. It’s fairly freely available these days here too, although it’s most often simply called Spanish melon ....
AVOCADO, LIME SLICES AND JALAPENO WITH SALAD LEAVES
PROSCIUTTO, PEACH, BUFFALO MOZZARELLA AND FRIED SAGE
WITLOF, ROCKET, FENNEL, BROCCOLINI, CHILLI AND GARLIC SALAD
PRAWN AND CABBAGE SALAD WITH AN ASIAN DRESSING
PARTY WITH A DIFFERENCE
RADICCHIO THE VIBRANT
Radicchio, like many of us, has to be helped along to retain its vibrancy. That lovely, trademark, red colour can only be achieved by inhibiting its exposure to light. Growers often put an inverted pot over their radicchio in the latter stages of growth to inhibit chlorophyll production and promote its lovely colour. If only it were so easy for the rest of us....
