Killer Salad Recipes

It was the last day of the half-term holidays today, I took my son and his friend orienteering, they wanted pizza on the way home so we stopped on the way and they had a takeaway pizza. I realised about 8.30pm when my stomach started growling at me that I hadn’t eaten yet. [...]

Pea shoots are in season, and boy are they tasty. Right now Sainsburys and Marks and Spencer are selling UK grown pea shoots in 50g bags, washed and ready to eat, for under a quid. They have a delicate pea flavour and are a great ingredient for salads. Today I used them [...]

There has been a lot of talk lately about eating seasonal food, sourced locally. Gordon Ramsay, one of the UK’s most prominent chefs has gone one further and suggested that restaurants should be fined if they serve out of season produce. Now although I don’t think that this will ever happen, I think [...]

I thought to balance things out, after sharing a recipe for salad cream, I would post a recipe for homemade mayonnaise. This is an easy mayonnaise recipe, though it does require constant attention and preferably a blender or a hand whisk.

Salad cream was invented by Heinz in 1914 and was very popular with working classes in the UK, a socialist salad dressing if you will. However, its popularity waned in the latter part of the century, with the arrival of the decadent mayonnaise, flaunting its spanish roots and pushing the humble salad cream to [...]

Devilled eggs are delicious, that really is the best way word to describe them. Devilled eggs are also relatively easy to make and the possibilities for the devilled part are endless, but I chose to do traditional devilled eggs, and serve them with salatrio and homegrown micro basil leaves.

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Yesterday, during my weekly shop, I came across something new and of course I bought it to use in a salad recipe or three Salatrio is a root ball lettuce, which simply means, when bought the lettuce is still attached to its root ball. This, say the producers, means the [...]

I am pleased to tell you, my fellow salad groupies, that my dalliance with microgreens has blossomed into a full blown love affair. Even my wildest salad dreams did not prepare me for the taste sensation that microgreens deliver. Microgreens, however small and delicate, pack a punch that Ricky Hatton would be proud [...]

Avocados are one of those fruits I don’t buy or eat regularly, and I don’t know why, because they are deliciously rich in both flavour and texture, just perfect for making salads. Avocados are also high in nutrients, and are cholesterol and sodium free. So, with a little effort and a few other [...]

So, it’s been 5 days since I started to cultivate microgreens, and I know you’re all waiting with baited breath for an update.