Bacon and Cucumber, Red Onion and a Potato and Carrot Salad Mash

 A strip of fried streaky bacon, plus spiralised cucumber, potato and carrot mash prepared with an ice-cream scoop, and some sliced purple onion. Dressed in French's American mustard. 

Egg and Mayo with a Lettuce, Cucumber, and Red Pepper Salad

Sometimes it is good to have a salad in the winter. Two boiled eggs, cooled and sliced, mixed with two dessert spoonfuls of mayonnaise.

The vegetable part of the salad consists of cucumber, chopped iceberg lettuce, three spring onions, chopped salad tomato, and chopped marinaded red pepper. Normally I would add some grated carrot to the mix, but did not in this case. Mix in a bowl, and dress with a drizzle of  olive oil, coriander leaf, and serve with black pepper.

Hot peppers with Ricotta Cheese

A delicious meal, constructed from a ready made salad from the local Co-op, consisting of a couple of varieties of lettuce, thin strips of carrot, chopped cucumber, and two salad tomatoes. Supplemented by a couple of spoonfuls of mayonnaise, and topped with hot red peppers stuffed with ricotta cheese. The oil which the peppers came in (garlic and herb infused) was drizzled over the salad leaves. Served with freshly ground black pepper. 

Egg and celery salad

Chopped celery, thinly sliced boiled egg, spring onion, black olive halves, sliced cucumber, yellow pepper, quartered cherry tomatoes, and some fresh Greek Basil leaves. Served with black pepper. Delicious, with lots of crunch. I actually prefer it without the tomato.

This recipe dates from 2012, when a number were posted on Facebook. I got some responses for these. Someone suggested that this recipe might be 'lovely in a pitta bread'.  It could have been served that way, but initially it was served and eaten as a plain salad. The remains of the salad were eaten in the evening in a tortilla wrap, with some salsa.

Egg and celery salad

Salad with Potato Dauphinois and Danish Salami

Sliced Danish salami, babyleaf salad leaves from Tesco, spinach leaves, and sliced cucumber.

Served with Potato Dauphinois, made with chopped onion and potato, in a mix of milk, yoghurt and mustard powder (as an emulsifier), cooked in in a glass roasting dish in the oven for 40 minutes. There is garlic with the onion and potato, finely chopped. Plus some Thyme.

I coated the onion, garlic and potato in a little olive oil first, and put them under the grill for fifteen minutes, before adding the milk/yoghurt/mustard powder mixture.

Salad with Potato Dauphinois and Danish Salami

Pork and Vegetables in a Black Bean Sauce

Roast pork in a black bean sauce, with chilli paste.

Spinach, onion, mushroom, chilli, fresh sliced ginger and garlic, cooked slowly. 

Raw red pepper, spring onion, garlic and sliced cucumber, stirred into the pork and black bean sauce, along with the spinach and onion, shortly before serving.

Pork and Vegetables in a Black Bean Sauce

Vegetable Tikka, with yoghurt and cucumber

Vegetable Tikka, with yoghurt and chopped cucumber, mango chutney, with a toasted wheat free pitta bread. 

Vegetable Tikka, with yoghurt and cucumber

Feta Cheese Salad

 Feta cheese, spinach, rocket and watercress, chopped vine tomato, red pepper and spring onion, dressed with lemon juice and olive oil. Plus black pepper, and  finely chopped garlic. Go easy on the lemon juice. Horiatiki salata without the olives and cucumber. 

Feta Cheese Salad

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Fig & apple salad, with Red Leicester cheese

 In addition to the main ingredients, there's chopped cucumber, vine tomato, garlic, a small amount of beetroot, chopped red onion, and fresh parsley. Dressed in olive oil, of course, with a twist of orange.

Fig & apple salad, with Red Leicester cheese

Chicken and Red Pepper Salad

Chopped breast of chicken with red pepper, vine tomatoes, cucumber, spring onion, pak choi, and black pepper

Chicken and Red Pepper Salad (August 2013)