Chargrilled eggplant is nothing new but it’s definitely worth a revisit, especially when crowned with a salad of pomegranate and walnut ….
A friend made a Cypriot Grain Salad for us recently, which was nutty, fresh and super-wholesome, not to mention fabulously delicious. It was also naturally gluten-free because the freekeh that’s usually in the grain salad was substituted with quinoa ….
Salads are popular at our place almost any time of the year, but of course the hot weather is their time to shine. Even when the season itself isn’t the best a good salad will always liven it up. And this Fennel Salad with Grapes and Pistachios has been doing the trick beautifully this time round ….
I could eat a plate of this warm salad on its own for lunch or dinner, but it also makes a great side with barbequed meats and other vegetables. A big platter looks colourful and impressive on a shared table ….
These two salad recipes, though quite different, both make use of some of our most basic vegetables. We have a Peas and Beans Salad and a Roasted Carrot Salad with Sherry Caramel. They’ve been paired to accompany our Christmas Rolled Roast Turkey Breast, but you’ll find they will complement a wide variety of your favourite dishes ….
This is a great salad for large or small numbers, making it a perfect option for Christmas. It can be served as a side dish or as an entrée with some decent, crusty gluten-free bread for carrot lovers. Several components can be prepared well in advance and the whole salad compiled a few hours ahead of serving ….
Edible seaweed, tasty and good for us in all its green gloriousness, can do much more than wrap your favourite sushi roll, float in a bowl of udon or add precious umami to a dashi stock. Think of it as another salad vegetable and the possibilities are numerous.
Here is a really tasty, fresh and easy salad to make. This Spicy Cucumber and Peanut Salad has all the mix of flavours you’d expect from a Thai-inspired dish - sweet, salty, hot and sour. Sounds good, don’t you think? ….
Keep a batch of this Asian Vinaigrette handy in the fridge and you’ll be ready to produce a salad full of umami flavours whenever you feel a hankering. ….
We really do try to be completely original with the recipes we post but sometimes, someone else’s recipe catches our eye, and tickles the tastebuds, so we run with it. Greg Malouf’s Eggplant Salad with Tahini-Yoghurt Dressing is one of those ….
You’ll probably be serving lots of salads through the festive season so we thought you might like to try some new ones: a Vine Tomato Salad and a White Salad With White Gazpacho Dressing ….
This recipe started with the idea of using a monochrome palette to create a salad. And once I landed on the colour white it wasn’t much of a stretch to arrive at the need for a white dressing. Next came the idea of using a white gazpacho soup as the dressing by reducing the volume of liquid ….
I’m going to sound like a goody-goody swot if I say that salad is my favourite food. Not chocolate. Not fried noodles or crispy bacon. Not even the best ice cream, although that could be touch and go ….
The grape is well-known as the delicate morsel to be enjoyed reclining in decadent abandon – the sweet fruit having first been peeled by an ardent attendant. (Do angels sing too? It’s been a while.) ….
Christmas in Australia cries salad out loud - even if we are lying down when we say it - so we’ve come up with two salads for you for Christmas this year. The first, we’re having fun with: Tomato a Gogo and the second, a crisp green Savoy Salad ….
Moutabel or Baba Ghanoush? Whatever you choose to call this tasty Middle Eastern side dish of Smoky Eggplant and Tomato Salad - sometimes made with the addition of tahini, sometimes yoghurt, sometimes neither - it is the glorious, charred eggplant that is the star ….
The idea that sashimi and wasabi are made for each other really goes without saying - and this Tuna and Wasabi Cream starter isn’t about to argue. It just puts it in a slightly different way ….
There’s a song by an old crooner that begins with the words “It’s watermelon weather, that summer kind of weather” and that’s just what we’ve been having in Sydney lately. Hot days and warm, still nights that warrant easy, cool food….
Here’s a Christmassy salad if ever there was one, all red and green and very tasty. No need to studiously follow our recipe, delicious as it is. Use whatever is in season and takes your fancy ….
Here’s another versatile, healthy and delicious salad, which I happened to serve, accompanied by barbequed, sake-marinated spatchcock, to a friend recently ….
With its use of olive oil and butter with tamarind and soy sauce this Warm Prawn and Tomato Salad is a little bit western and a little bit eastern and it satisfyingly ticks the boxes for rich, sweet, sour and umami tastes ....
The dill, garlic, chives and mint in this simple salad topped with nigella seeds lift it to special status .....
These three vegetable dishes are easy to prepare and while they are great on their own they also nicely complement grilled, baked or barbecued meats, poultry and fish. They are healthy, colourful, hi-viz even, and taste as good as they look ....
This light, tasty salad is a great accompaniment for grilled, baked or barbecued meats, poultry or fish. It was delicious served with a whole, baked flathead ....
It’s early April in Sydney and we’re now heading down a slippery slope towards winter. Even though we haven’t exactly pulled out the woollies yet I did serve a warm salad last night rather than a chilled, summery one and we enjoyed the change ....
The most common melon in Spain is the Sapo de Piel, literally ‘toad skin’ melon, but it’s often called Christmas melon too because it keeps so well. It’s deliciously sweet when ripe, which is when the skin turns bright yellow between the characteristic dark green markings. It’s fairly freely available these days here too, although it’s most often simply called Spanish melon ....
Here we have put together an unusual combination of flavours, a bit of zing and a twist on an old favourite. This recipe is quick to put together and will add some wow factor to your table. The avocado, rocket, lime and jalapeno combination packs a mouth-watering punch. You’ll love it ....
The common garden or mixed salad can be a lovely and healthy dish to eat as long as everything is perky and fresh. But sometimes something more interesting is desired - an unusual combination of flavours, a bit of zing or a twist on an old favourite ....
All the ingredients for this salad can be prepared beforehand and tossed together at the last minute ....
