Fonio Grain Tomato Salad
July 12, 2022
WSJ July 2022
INGREDIENTS
DRESSING:
2 TB white vinegar
Juice 1/2 lemon
1 clove garlic
1/4 C olive oil + 2TB
1 pinch chili flakes
SALD MIX:
3/4 C pitted green or black olives chopped
1 shallot or 1/4 red onion thinly sliced
1/2 cucumber , halved lengthwise, thinly slice half moons
1 1/2 C chickpeas
1 1/2 C cherry tomatoes halved
1/2C feta crumbled
1 C cooked fonio
HERB MIX
1/4 C chopped flat leaf parsley
1/4 C dill chopped
1/2 C arugula
- Make dressing in large bowl
- Add salad mix, toss
- Add herb mix, 2 TB Oil, S&P to taste
Za’atar and roasted vegetable salad
January 5, 2019
Roast vegetables 425º oven. (Goes well with buttermilk roasted chicken)
Use several trays to roast vegetables until browned.
- Cauliflower & Romanesco – slice vertically down. drizzle oil
- Brussel sprouts cut in half, toss with oil.
- Red carrots, slice lengthwise, toss with oil.
Vinaigrette: shallots, 2 TB red wine vinegar & 6 TB olive oil. Mix with drained can cannelini beans & Za’atar.
Layer: bottom up:
Cauliflower, Romanesco, carrots, brussels sprouts. Sprinkle with beans.
Top with Feta, herbs (parsley, mint, arugula etc), Maldon salt
5 variations Caprese salads – vegetables & cheese
July 8, 2017
Sunset 2016
Use best olive oil drizzle on salad, malden salt flakes, fresh herbs.
- Cantaloupe sliced pieces, Scamorza sliced & mint.
- Roasted red pepper, Feta sliced & chives chopped
- Sliced peaches, Burrata & Taragon torn
- Grilled eggplant, Ricotta salata & fresh Dill
- Tomato, fresh mozzarella & Basil.
Purple kale salad
August 17, 2015
Purple or tuscan kale will do.
- 8 kale leaves (8oz) slice leaves off stem, stack & roll, slice thinly crosswise into narrow ribbons.
- 2½ TB olive oil plus extra, sea salt
- 1 clove crushed garlic
- 1 TB apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp mustard
- 2 pinches red pepper flakes
- 2 oz feta
- handful golden tomatoes, halved
- 2 green onions thinly sliced
- 2 tb fresh mint sliced thin
Directions
- Mix 1 tsp oil and ¼ tsp salt and sliced Kale together.
- Mix dressing: mix crushed garlic, ¼ tsp salt until smooth, stir in 1 TB vinegar, 1 tsp mustard, 2½TB olive oil.
- Toss greens with dressing, crumble feta, add green onions, tomatoes, mint.
Cucumber Feta Blueberry salad
November 5, 2012
Serves 4-6
Dressing: whisk together in small bowl:
- 2 TB olive oil
- 2 TB white vinegar
- 1 tsp honey
- S&P
SALAD toss with dressing.
- 3 C blueberries
- 2 hothouse cucumbers, seeds scraped out, peeled, cut into 1 ” diagonal pieces
- 3 scallions thinly sliced
- 1 C crumbled feta
- 1 heart romaine chopped
- 2 C lightly packed mint leaves
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