Salads

Char-grilled asparagus, courgette and haloumi salad – I’m in love!

June 12, 2008

Dear Nigel This is one of the hardest letters I've ever had to write.  Please know that, whatever follows below, you were my first love and for that you will always have a place in my heart. I remember when we met – I had no idea who you were.  All I knew was that [...]

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Spicy lentil, radish and parsley salad

May 27, 2008

Oh, I had such good intentions. I came home on Friday afternoon and the three-day weekend stretched ahead of me as if it would never end.  Surely I would have time to do absolutely everything on my blog to do list?  I mean, how long can it take to post a couple of recipes, recategorise over [...]

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Salade folle a la Cooksister and a foie gras primer

May 14, 2008

When I was a teenager, I used to be a veteran shopper for souvenirs and knicknacks.  I remember hours of dragging my mom through curio shops buying salt cellars shaped like Siamese cats, crystals, little ornaments for my printer’s tray (remember those?  You will if you grew up in South Africa in the 1980s!!) – [...]

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Claudette’s roasted potato salad

February 27, 2008

Living in a foreign country far from your family and friends has its ups and downs. For me, the upsides of London have included the incredible travel opportunities, the opportunity to start a blog (which I doubt I would have done had I stayed home), the eclectic mix of people I have met, and the [...]

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Cilantro, cucumber and tomato salad

November 10, 2007

It seems that I am on a roll writing about love-it-or-hate-it foods. Hands up – who likes fresh coriander leaves, a.k.a. cilantro?  I know I do – and Nick has repeatedly declared that fresh cilantro is his all-time favourite herb.  But as I have discovered, this is not an opinion shared by everyone – to [...]

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Nasturtium leaf salad

July 15, 2007

Astonishingly, it seems that the teeniest little bit of summer has finally arrived in the UK!  I mean, we have had two weekends in a row of reasonable weather (well, not raining, that is…) and I have finally had a chance to spend some time in my sadly neglected garden.  I must say that despite [...]

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Roasted butternut, feta and pinenut salad

June 23, 2007

Despite the fact that we have had nothing but dark clouds and rainstorms around here lately, rumour has it that summer has in fact arrived in the British Isles.  I can tell it by the way the poppies have exploded in my garden (to the delight of visiting bumblebees!) and I can tell it by [...]

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