Category: Salads
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Jo’s Kumura & Bacon Salad
We’ve recently made some lovely new friends from NZ. It’s kinda rare to make genuine new connections at this age with the daily hustle often getting in the way, but the kids have brought us together with some lovely new peeps of late. It’s a real joy to find new souls to share in the many excitements…
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Broccoli, pancetta, mint & macadamia salad
Lifted from goodfood.com.au, this salad is a meal in itself. The addition of macadamias is genius, so flavoursome, it just keeps giving with every mouthful; and in light of the large volume of broccoli, it has to be healthy, right?
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Poh’s Hainanese Chicken Rice
Well, it’s been a long while between posts… Somewhere along the way I got a bit distracted with other things, but we’re still cookin’ here, so it’s about time I put up some of the dishes we’ve been tucking into of late. This first one is simply put, Asian comfort food. Hainanese chicken rice is a…
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Simple Homegrown Tomato Salad
The tomato plants are teeming with the first fruit, the cherries, at the moment. I was super excited because it gave me the opportunity to take my new flash bottle of sherry vinegar for a spin and try out our new Strathbogie Ranges extra virgin olive oil – I know, what a food snob – anyway..…
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Freekeh Salad
What a tasty little grain this is. Freekeh is young, green wheat which has been toasted and cracked. One of the so called ‘ancient grains’ which have made a resurgence in recent years, it is packed full of goodness and tastes great too. I can’t get it at my supermarket, but I think some fancy…
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Raw Zucchini Salad
You’ll be feeling quite virtuous with a little of this on the side. I’m calling this a salad, but really it’s just some quickly peeled and marinated zucchini. Super healthy made with raw zucchini (which is delicious) it will go well with any meat or fish or even an omelette.
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Another Bean Salad (Lemony White Beans with Pecorino)
I was short on time today and decided to bust out the tins of cannellini beans once again. Instead of making my usual Easy Bean Salad with Goats Cheese, I tried this version from my new Date Night In book by Ashley Rodriguez. She serves it as part of an antipasto platter, but it was great…
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Fennel and Radish Salad
Raw fennel is way yummier than cooked in my opinion and this is such a refreshing salad in either summer or winter. It’s fantastic with fish and chicken on a hot night, or will lighten up a heavier meal, such as pasta in winter.
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Avocado Salad with Cumin and Pepitas
I recently bought the most beautiful new cookbook by Ashley Rodriguez – she’s a former chef in the US who has the award winning blog ‘Not Without Salt’. The book is called ‘Date Night In’ and it’s packed full of decadent feasts to share with your significant other, designed to get the juices flowing and…
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Easy Bean Salad with Goats Cheese
When you’re feeling a bit cooked out this time of year and really can’t be bothered, this is a great quick, light and healthy little salad which goes well with chicken, meat or fish. I usually serve it with spiced lamb back straps, but it would be good with roast chicken (store bought is fine…
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Raw Carrot and Beetroot Salad
This is a lovely fresh salad, which goes with just about anything really. The earthy beetroot is great raw with the lemon and it’s really healthy. A good one for all ages (if you leave out chilli or add it at the table for the grown ups) it’s another Karen Martini fave. She pairs it…
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Ricotta Salata with Tomatoes, Onion and Basil
Who’s sick of the tasteless tomatoes selling at the shops right now? Even in the peak of summer, green, yellow, orange or red, they just don’t seem to have any flavour. Farmers markets are definitely the go until our tomatoes are ready later in the summer. When they are, this salad makes the most of the…
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Roast Lamb with Whipped Feta and Mustard Dressing and Parsley and Red Onion Salad
A bit of a mouthful of a title.. However, this is a great dish to spice up the usual lamb roast for summertime. The dressing is delectable and the salad, refreshing and light. The sumac adds a lovely lemony flavour and mixed with the fresh lemon is delicious.
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Christmas Salad
I call this my Christmas salad, because it has all the right colours – red, white and green and really does look the picture on the Christmas table. Even the feta added before serving looks almost like snow, aw…
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Rotelle with Prosciutto, Sour Cream and Chives
This is a tasty little pasta salad which has flown out the door the times I’ve made it. It will go great with any grilled meats, and so it’s a great side for a barbie, perhaps in place of potato salad.
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Spiced Beetroot Salad
I just love beetroot. The flavour of fresh beets from the ground can’t be beaten, so earthy and sweet, and the colour is just so gorgeous.
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Asian Coleslaw
There will always be a place for mayonnaise-based coleslaw packed into a piece of white bread with a snag on a summer’s day – yum! That said, there’s nothing worse than a bowl of coleslaw sitting out in the heat at a barbie and turning that gross watery, yellow colour – blurgh!
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Big Mac Potato Salad
My sister in law loves this salad – this one’s for you Casey! It’s a variation on the mayo-only potato salad using some mayo, but mainly sour cream. But don’t be fooled, it’s very rich and the sauce tastes suspiciously like Big Mac Special Sauce, only yummier.
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Sophia’s Israeli Salad
My good friend Sophia first gave me this recipe. She’s a great food related resource and I always tell her what we’re having for dinner! The boy loves his salad and the Israeli kind gets a regular run at our place. You can mix it up anyway you like – add fennel, spring onions, radishes –…
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Bang Bang Chicken
Ignore the image (if you can)… This is a great easy summer dinner which takes poached chicken salad to a whole new level. The recipe I use is from SBS Food, but there are more than a few different versions out there. I remember reading that this is a traditional Chinese street food snack