Killer Salad Recipes

1. Microgreens have more flavour than mature greens
2. Microgreens are packed with nutrients
3. Microgreens are easy to grow
4. Microgreens are ready to harvest in days
5. Microgreens are the latest must have addition to any kitchen

Crayfish and pea shoot salad is a light salad with very few ingredients, but it’s very tasty and can be served on its own for a light lunch, or even as a starter for a 3 course dinner. When I made it today I wanted to try something new, so I made a pea […]

Now that we know how to store Olive Oil, and building on the twisted oil ideas. I thought it would be useful to share other recipes for transforming olive oil into something extra special.

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.

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 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. […]

Lots of posh chefs like to build their salads around a couple of slabs of goose liver or even duck liver. Then again: that stuff is really expensive and on top of that it’s most often grown in a very animal-unfriendly fashion. Why not use something just as smooth and firm and ever so tasty […]