Rather a lovely lunch

I have been experimenting with seaweed… edible seaweed. I bought a small set of dried, flaked Welsh seaweeds, gutweed, dulse, wrack, laver and kelp. Some of them need to be in cooked dishes, but I have been trying others with cold recipes.

Here is a rather lovely salad lunch I made using the very excellent Welsh laver:

Goats’ cheese and laver salad

• little gem lettuce
• watercress
• goats cheese (I used soft cheese, the sort which comes in a log – I took the skin off, but it is edible so up to you!) cut into small cubes
• olive oil
• pomegranate syrup
• sea salt
• a few roast peanuts (or any other nuts, or seeds, or none)
• a couple of teaspoons of dried flaked laver (I was using just one baby gem, if you were making more for more people you would obviously need to use more laver!)

1. cut or tear the lettuce and watercress into bite-sized pieces and put into a generous bowl
2. add the cheese and fork through gently
3. add the laver
4. pour on as much olive oil and syrup as you yourself like (I like it quite oily compared to some people)
5. gently stir it all together, you don’t want to break up the cheese too much
6. season to taste
7. sprinkle as many nuts/seeds as you like
8. you can eat it straight away, but the flavour of the laver comes out if you leave it for a little while