My Greek Salad

I haven't been feeling great the last few days, the flu was beginning to take hold so major amounts of drugs were required and food wasn't really a priority. But last night I felt I could just about handle a salad. I'd bought some feta during the week so that led me to a Greek salad.  I used the following:

Little Gem lettuce, chopped up
Sliced red onion, soaked in water for 10-15mins then rinsed and dried with kitchen paper

A boiled egg, cut into 8

Cherry tomatoes, quartered
Feta cheese, cut into bite-sized cubes

Dressing:

1 part cider vinegar to 3 parts olive oil

Pinch of dried oregano, crumbled finely

Garlic clove, halved

Sea salt & freshly ground black pepper

Put all the dressing ingredients into a jar and shake well until combined. Let it sit for a half hour or so, out of the fridge, to let the flavours mingle.  Put all the salad ingredients except for the egg into a bowl, pour over the dressing and then place the egg on top. Then eat!

Gummy Salad

Got a nice cheap bag of salad this evening so decided to make it part of my dinner. This is what I did:

• I burnt the skin of half a red pepper over the gas ring until it was totally charred and black. Then I put it into a small bag while I got the rest of the salad ready. Once cooled rub the black skin off, don't run under water you'll lose the smokey flavour, then slice finely.
• I fried some mushrooms in spray fry until slightly crispy.
• I did the same with a couple of smoked rashers.
• I made some croutons from a couple of slices of bread, and fried them off in the pan I did the rashers in.
• In the meantime, I boiled one egg until almost hard.
• I sliced up some red onion and cheddar cheese.

I layered all the above on top of the salad leaves and poured over a dressing I'd made of half a crushed clove of garlic, raspberry vinegar, olive oil, Dijon mustard and some seasoning.  Mix it all together and try not to hoover it down like I did.

Oh, while the croutons were still hot I grated some Parmesan cheese on top.

Prawn Salad with Dipping Sauce

Simple supper tonight. Prawns tossed in tandoori masala mix then quickly stir-fried. On a bed of crispy salad leaves including lambs lettuce and rocket. Adorning the middle of the dish was a little bowl of Hot and Spicy Sweet Chilli dipping sauce, I used Blue Dragon because I think its the nicest. Tasty and snack like supper, hit the spot though.