Category: Salad
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Rainbow Salad
Fantastic salad for dinner with my mom tonight, a rainbow salad with cocktails and Miss Marple. This is what’s in it: baby Swiss chard and kale, spinach, grated carrots and beets, cucumbers, yellow peppers sliced into very thin pieces, cherry tomatoes, Â pickled shallots, Macedonian feta with a texture like wet clay and a taste that…
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Yam Hash Browns and Eggs Breakfast on Salad Greens
The possibilities and inspirations behind the salads I make are near endless. I get so much pleasure from composing a rainbow plate of salad from seemingly random combinations of ingredients. I have a salad almost everyday for lunch and am always bringing out containers of grated carrots and beets, deeply green leaves, pomegranate seeds, pickled…
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Kale and Haloumi Salad
How do you make something tasty for a picnic without actually having gone shopping for the necessary ingredients? The answer is faith in your food pairing instincts and some vague creative idea as to what the finished result will look like. This Kale and Haloumi Salad is just such a happy accident, the kale was…
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Chicken Salad with Shredded Beets and Artichokes and the 100th Post
This entry marks two special occasions: my 100th post on musicwithdinner and the first article I have ever had published in an international magazine. When I first started writing musicwithdinner it was partly an attempt to ground myself in my new environment. I had just moved with my then boyfriend and now husband from London,…
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Greek Salad with Lemon Chicken
Great big salads full of contrasting textures, flavours, and colours will always be one of my favourite choices for dinner. After a long day spent chatting with customers and being generally very extroverted I find a half an hour spent carefully preparing a salad and all of its components both calming and re-energizing. I can preoccupy myself…