Killer Salad Recipes

At times, when you’re doing an exotic salad that needs some spice, you just don’t have the time to chop and de-seed little chili peppers. Also - have you ever chopped some and then rubbed your eye. Agony! What you really need is a ready-made dressing to spice up your dishes, including your exotic salads.

Fresh pineapples (or ananas) look inviting and menacing at the same time. You’d like to try one, but it looks a bit scary. Hmmm, let’s go for tinned to be safe…
But no! Pineapples are not scary, they are very tasty when fresh. They are also very powerful, in that they can soften meat with their [...]

Tomatoes are a popular addition to many salad dishes, but some salad recipes call for peeled and seeded tomatoes. This simple step-by-step guide will tell you how to peel and seed tomatoes quickly and easily.
Peeling Tomatoes
Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil.
Using a sharp knife, cut a small cross into the [...]

Hopefully we are all washing our salad greens before using them in our killer salads, and in many of our salads we will be using some kind of oil based dressing, but oil and water don’t mix, and any beads of water left on the greens after washing will resist even the lightest of [...]

Salads are said to be simple. “What’ll you have?” - “Oh, just a salad will do for me.”
This is the part I find difficult to understand. Yes, it can be simple: it can be simple to prepare which is fine and it can be simple in its construction, which may be fine too. We [...]

I know, I know, there is no oil like extra vergine olive oil. Well duh. Some people just don’t like olive oil. Others have a weak stomach that can’t deal with olive oil. Some even think that olive oil has been done to death…
Of course you can buy fancy oils like walnut and sesame. By [...]