With this tropical weather I’m craving tropical food. This simple and refreshing combo is prepared quickly and requires no fussing at all. And as the satés are BBQ, no need to fire up the oven and warm up the house further. Green papaya salad and smoked tofu satés with peanut dipping sauce Tofu satés [...]
Archive for the ‘Salads’ Category
Green papaya salad and smoked tofu satés with peanut dipping sauce
Posted in Appetizers & Snacks, Recipes, Salads, Sauces & Dressings on June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Kale & seaweed salad
Posted in gluten-free, Raw food, Recipes, Salads, Sauces & Dressings, Vegetables, tagged kale, raw vegan, salad, seaweed, Vegan recipe, wakame on September 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
To be happy I need a generous daily dose of straight up greens, relatively unaltered and preferably raw. Here’s what it looked like today. Kale and wakame salad. Ingredients 1 bunch kale, chopped 20 gr wakame seaweed, rehydrated and drained well 3 scallions, sliced thinly 30 ml raw tahini 30 ml toasted sesame oil 30 [...]
Tomato and Persian cucumber salad with a lime basil & mint chiffonade.
Posted in Appetizers & Snacks, Raw food, Recipes, Salads, Vegetables, tagged raw vegan, Vegan recipe on August 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Do you see a pattern emerging here?… What can I say, tomatoes are in season and my tiny urban garden is bursting with them! This salad was homegrown except for the crunchy little Persian cucumbers. Grow your own food, it tastes so much better! Cherry tomatoes and Persian cucumbers salad. Ingredients 500 ml (2 cups) [...]
Baby purple artichoke salad
Posted in Appetizers & Snacks, Italian, Raw food, Recipes, Salads, Vegetables, tagged baby artichokes, poivrade, spring recipe, Vegan recipe on June 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Choose smallest, most tender, violet or poivrade baby artichokes for this recipe. This smaller variety has almost no choke and the inner half is very tender and are entirely edible. They have a mild bitter taste with notes of hazelnut. Baby purple artichoke salad Ingredients 16 baby artichokes cleaned and very thinly sliced Vinegar or [...]
An other spring salad
Posted in Salads, Vegetables, tagged forage food, greens, salad, sassafras, Vegan recipe, violets, wild edibles, wild garlic mustard on May 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been too busy to blog lately so I’ve got some catching to do with the spring recipes… This one is from mid-April when the wild violets were in bloom. I love cooking and eating wild food. This simple salad is made of market bought “wild” arugula and small pea shoots augmented with foraged wild [...]
Spring salad
Posted in Recipes, Salads, Sauces & Dressings, tagged capers, potato, salad, spinach, Spring on April 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a simple spring salad which I quickly put together when I got back from the market this weekend. The radish sprouts and arugula flowers added some colour and a nice kick to the mild spinach. Ingredients 150 gr (5.5 oz) Baby spinach 50 gr (1.75 oz) Sunflower sprouts 50 gr (1.75 oz) Japanese purple [...]
Golden beets with “cheese”.
Posted in Appetizers & Snacks, Recipes, Salads, Vegetables, tagged beet, salad, Vegan recipe on March 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
How many times can I post variations of beet salad you ask? Many, obviously! I just don’t tire of beets. If it isn’t the case for you, please come back later, I will have other non-beet posts up soon. Golden beets with homemade soy “cheese” These gorgeous little golden beets were baked whole, peel on, [...]
Izakaya dinner part 2 – Sushi and cucumber & seaweed salad
Posted in Appetizers & Snacks, Japanese, Main dishes, Recipes, Salads, Vegetables, tagged cucumber & seaweed salad, Izakaya, Japanese tapas, sunomono, sushi, Vegan recipe, yamagobo on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the second part of Saturday’s Japanese dinner. For the full menu and a list of sakés, please have a look at part 1. Sushi For many, a Japanese dinner without sushi is unthinkable, so we had sushi. Good and easy finger food. I won’t include a recipe here as there are hundreds of [...]
Insalata di Puntarelle
Posted in Raw food, Recipes, Salads, Vegetables, tagged Italian recipe, puntarelle, raw, Rome, salad, Vegan on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Or pretending I’m in Rome. Leafy greens are some of my favourite vegetables and I always love a good salad. This one’s quite the treat as the main ingredient is not only seasonal (nov-feb) but also only grown in Rome, which means it’s hard to come by, unless of course you live in Rome. Ingredients [...]
Salad with roasted baby beets and cashew cheese
Posted in Salads, Vegetables on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
sorry for the soft focus, my camera just doesn’t like food closeups. Here’s a simple fall starter. Baby spinach tossed in a walnut oil, sherry vinegar dressing, topped with a little tower of roasted baby beet slices and tangy cashew cheese. My cashew cheese recipe is here.
