yummy salad

[~*heket*~]

I made a great salad for dinner tonight. It's disgustingly easy and I reckon kidlets might like it :D

I cooked small diced kumara in a fry pan with corinader roots, dried cumin, garlic and lime zest. Then I put it in a bowl with rocket, mint, coriander, lentils, and red onion. Then I threw crushed fresh garlic, salt and lime juice over it with sea salt and chilli. and bugger me it was good!

I would have added tofu puffs but I left them at home (we're at J's)

It's salad season, share your yumy salad recipe!!! :eager

[Ceres]

Oh yum that sounds good. No risk of having to share it with my small one however.
My favourite is roasted pumpkin, tossed with some seseme seeds, with rocket, fetta, semi-sundried tomatoes, whatever other ingredients you have at hand, and dressed with tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Yummo. Pumpkin and fetta ANYTHING is good in my opinion.

[Janet]

It was a GREAT salad!! I'm into roast vegie salads esp pumpkin and sweet potato. *drools*

[Ayla]

One of my faves is roasted pumpkin, fetta & cashews. Throw in with some salad veges like lettuce, onion, tomatoes, mushrooms, capsicum. It makes for a very creamy salad, yum yum!

[~*heket*~]

PHWOAR!!! I'm getting hungy reading these :shock

[Honesty]

we LOVE this:

two grated carrots
one or two grated apples
plenty of raisins/sultanas
lemon juice
ground cinnamon

mix together

join the scrum for the serving spoon!

[Honesty]

we had this for lunch today, it is scrummy:

one or two mangoes diced
half a red onion
lemon or lime juice
optional: fresh coriander or mint chopped in

mix together and leave for half an hour or so to soften the onion

eat!

[Ceres]

Yum that mango one sounds gooood.. the main downfall to living in the southern half of aus is the price of mango's! I could pay $4 per mango (conventional at the supermarket) or at the organic shop they're $5 - 6 each! Such a shame because they are my number 1 favourite fruit.

[Honesty]

they are expensive here too :cry but sometimes we just have to splash out coz the whole family cries out for them basically all the time :)

[Ayla]

Yum yum! Thanks for sharing :D

[~*heket*~]

The coriander and mint isn't optional though :lol

[Honesty]

too right! unfortunately though one of my family is allergic to coriander, hard as this is for us to accept...:bah

[Ayla]

we LOVE this:

two grated carrots
one or two grated apples
plenty of raisins/sultanas
lemon juice
ground cinnamon

mix together

join the scrum for the serving spoon!

I'm having this for breakfast now, although the raw version didn't appeal to my tastebuds so I heated the mixture in a saucepan - yummo! I love hot sultanas :D

[Honesty]

that's great ayla, i'm so pleased i shared such a simple thing!
i love warm juicy plump raisins too. i hope to bake some apples with sultanas this winter , for the first time since childhood!

[Aurora]

This thread is making me hungry! Our standard family salad has always been fresh rocket, sundried tomatoes, olives (cut in halves or quarters for those sensitive to the taste), pepitas, sesame seeds, toasted pine nuts, chunks of avocado, spanish onion, goat's fetta (depending on whether you're Vegan or not) & a splash of dressing (balsamic vinegar, olive oil and lemon juice.) But I'm keen to try some ideas listed here. Sounds delish.

[~*heket*~]

mMmMmmMmmmm That sounds good! If we don't have fetta we often use chunks of fried tofu marinated in sweet chilli sauce instead K. That's bloody good!