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I remember salad from my childhood as lettuce leaves, slices or quarters of tomato, whole spring onions, slices of cucumber, sometimes salad cress or watercress, cooked beetroot in malt vinegar, radishes topped and tailed, hard-boiled eggs sliced, potato salad made with salad cream… It would be served with cold meat, and it would be the […]
MoreI just really like salads – and like experimenting to find strange combinations of fruit and vegetables which work together. You can’t see, but lurking here are some lovely new broad beans, just cooked for a few minutes in salted water; they are absolutely my favourite bean. There are mixed leaves, sliced onion, a few […]
More… and in today’s salad we have: mangetout peas parsley pineapple lettuce spinach tomatoes grapes cauliflower celery cucumber spinach purple sprouting broccoli yellow pepper courgette avocado and yea, strawberries!
MoreHome-made coleslaw – leek, cabbage, carrot, spring onion, yoghurt, mayonnaise…. grilled sweet peppers with Greek olive oil…. broad bean salad – broad beans, zest of lemon, feta cheese, olive oil, pomegranate syrup… green salad, cos lettuce, red spring onions, cucumber, courgette, leek, olive oil and pomegranate syrup…
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Lois Elsden 