Killer Salad Recipes

Herbs and spices are invaluable ingredients for all types of cooking, not just when making salads. Herbs and spices add flavour and/or aroma to foods, enhancing meals in bold or subtle ways.
Of course we all have our favourite herbs and spices, and at the same time we have those that we are not so [...]

Twice a year my neighbours go on a day trip to Calais, France, they hire a van, a rather big van, so big you could probably stage a moon landing in it. They go on this trip twice a year to do what they call, stocking up on essentials, in reality what happens is [...]

So, how do marinades work? Well you might read an awful lot of web pages and recipe books that tell you that a marinade will tenderise meat. This isn’t strictly true, hitting a piece of meat with a meat hammer or rolling pin will tenderise it. Marinades do something else.

This simple and delicious Thai marinade is excellent for beef, especially a sirloin steak. Of course you’ll want to serve this with a salad, I recommend a simple salad of shredded lettuce, cucumber and tomato.

I’ve had a tin of chickpeas in my cupboard for a while. Today I decided to use them to make Falafel for lunch. Falafel is a middle eastern food, very tasty and easy to make. The purists among you may frown on tinned chickpeas and opt to soak dried chickpeas overnight, but [...]

I’m not one to pass up a bargain or special offer, so when my local supermarket had a ’special’ on seafood I couldn’t resist. I bought something I had never tried before, Squid rings. So the challenge was to make a salad including the squid rings. I did some research on cooking [...]

I don’t know about you, but I like crispy bacon, especially on a salad. But there is never enough when you use the sprinkle crispy bacon over a salad method, so I decided to increase the bacon content with this salad and make it a focal point, I mean: you can never have too [...]

This salad takes a little longer to prepare than say a proper bloke’s salad, but it is well worth the extra effort.
Coconut prawn salad, with fruit and a poppy seed dressing is one of my all time favourite salads, the prawns are deep fried in a batter made with beer and coated in flaked coconut. [...]

This easy recipe for a Mackerel Salad with Mustard dressing is not for those who have shy taste buds, the Mustard dressing is sharp on the palate but adds a nice balance to the fresh Mackerel. This salad is refreshing and full of flavour.

This is a really quick, no cook, low fat salad. It’s great on its own as a healthy light lunch or as an accompaniment to a grilled chicken breast to make it more substantial salad, perhaps for an evening meal.