Crayfish and Cantaloupe Salad
Thursday, June 22, 2023This fresh and light salad makes the perfectly light and delicious meal. The sweetness of the cantaloupe compliments the rest of the ingredients seamlessly. As quick and easy as it is delicious. You can use prawns or crab meat if you can't get hold of crayfish tails. Cantaloupe can be substituted with mango, apple or berry. If you want a more satiating meal, throw in some leftover cooked pasta, roasted potatoes or grains.
Ottolenghi's Tomato and Pomegranate Salad
Wednesday, May 31, 2023The pleasant sour taste of pomegranate arils with a touch of sweetness complements the juicy, sunny sweetness of ripe tomatoes really well in this simple yet awesome salad. Use a mix of different tomoatoes, preferably heirloom varieties, for more colours, texture and flavours. It works as a fresh and healthy lunch with some homemade bread, or as an easy side to serve with grilled meat or seafood or whatever you enjoy.
Heirloom Carrot and Cashew Salad with Salsa Verde
Thursday, May 25, 2023This easy carrot and salt & pepper cashews salad is a great mix of crunchy, zesty, tangy, and spicy. Perfect on its own or as a great addition to any barbecue. It is bursting with texture and flavour yet dead easy to prepare and super delicious and nutritious.
I used a mixture of white, deep red and purple heirloom carrots. If they aren't readily available, use regular orange carrots instead. You can either grate them or peel lengthwise into long ribbons for an even more appealing presentation. The fresh herby salsa verde really lifts the carrots to a new level.
Roasted Heirloom Carrot Salad with Purple Belgian Endive
Sunday, May 07, 2023The sweetness from roasting the carrots and red onion paired with a delicious tangy lemon vinaigrette is just amazing. Tossed with some mild purple Belgian endives, crunchy toasted pumpkin seeds and sweet pomegranate seeds, creating a dish that will excite the palate, please the eye and leave you wanting more. If you can't find heirloom carrots, regular orange variety works just as fine.
Tuna Stuffed Heirloom Tomatoes
Friday, May 05, 2023Fresh heirloom tomatoes are hollowed out, then filled with a deliciously healthy tuna salad and served on a bed of greens and herbs. These protein-packed, no cook stuffed heirloom tomatoes are great anytime of the year, but especially when fresh tomatoes are in season. They are naturally gluten free and keto-friendly. Use some homemade mayonnaise instead of Greek yoghurt if you need to go dairy free.
Wild Garlic Crusted Salmon
Wednesday, April 19, 2023A deliciously healthy main to serve for spring dinners that’s just as good cold as it is hot from the oven. Here the salmon is hidden under an aromatic wild garlic crust made with fresh grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, pumpkin seed flour, butter and egg yolk. Cherry tomatoes roast alongside salmon fillets and make a delicious salad with some greens. It goes well with fresh homemade bread.
Caprese Burger
Monday, April 17, 2023I bet that you've never had a caprese salad like this before! Grab two oxheart tomatoes, cut them into thirds horizontally and create your own Caprese burger with creamy herb burrata - a fun twist on the classic Italian salad. It's gluten-free and keto-friendly.
Oxheart is an old heirloom from the 1920's. It is an extra large, heart shaped (or cone-shaped) tomato that is usually pinkish red (there are many other varieties; the one I use for the recipe is called Coeur de Boeuf), firm and meaty with fewer seeds and a mild sweet tomato flavour. If you can't find them, use beefsteak tomatoes instead.
Grapefruit, Edamame and Arugula Salad
Wednesday, April 05, 2023Ready in 20 minutes, this colourful arugula salad with ruby red grapefruit, edamame (green soya beans), avocadao, Prosciutto and toasted pecans is all you need to be eating a healthy, nourishing salad for dinner tonight. Edamame are soya beans that are harvested and picked when the fuzzy pods are tender and green. They are naturally gluten-free and add a protein boost to your food. If you can't find shelled edamame beans, don't worry— use broad beans instead.
Scallop, Frisée, and Kumquat Salad with Mango Dressing
Sunday, March 26, 2023A delightful option for a light and wholesome meal, these ghee seared scallops are served with a frisée, red onion, and kumquat salad drizzled with a aromatic fruity mango dressing. Scallops are the filet mignon of the sea and you don't want to overcook them. Sear them in a cast iron skillet for 2 minutes, flip and cook one more minute. Make sure to thoroughly dry your scallops before seasoning and searing. They should be springy, not mushy (undercooked) or firm (overcooked) if properly cooked.
Prosciutto Fennel Salad with Hazelnuts and Kiwiberries
Saturday, March 18, 2023Simple, slightly tangy salads work so well with prosciutto. This fresh shaved fennel, prosciutto crudo, hazelnuts, and Parmesan salad recipe is great served for a light yet satisfying lunch or light side dish. Substitute the shaved fennel with celery, arugula or Brussel sprouts if you don't like anise or licorice flavour in fennel.
Blanched hazelnuts are shelled hazelnuts that are blanched in boiling water to remove the skin. Use other nuts (walnuts or almonds) if you like.
Kiwiberries (aka cocktail kiwi and grape kiwi) are like mini kiwifruit with smooth green skin. This grape-sized fruit, native to China and Korea, similar to kiwifruit in taste and appearance and are rich in vitamins C and E and naturally low in fat, cholesterol and sodium. They’re also an excellent source of fiber, magnesium and potassium.
Egg Salad Stuffed Snow Peas
Wednesday, March 15, 2023Crunchy, light and delicious, these stuffed snow peas so easy to prepare and are great as an appetizer or anytime snack. If you are making them for a crowd, blanch and split the snow peas ahead of time, chill until ready to fill. The egg salad can be prepared ahead too. Besides egg salad, you can also use herb-flavoured cheese, chicken, tuna or crab meat to fill the pea pods.
Mesclun, Snow Peas, and Quail Egg Salad with Parmesan Dressing
Saturday, March 11, 2023This vibrant Mediterranean salad showcases a colorful mixture of arugula, baby beet leaves, spinach and snow peas. Mesclun's fresh, complex flavour and tender, crispy texture work beautifully alongside sweet tender snow peas and creamy quail eggs, all finished with a rich, nutty dressing made from Parmesan, red wine vinegar, olive oil, honey, salt and voatsiperifery black pepper. Boil the quail eggs to your own liking, two minutes (soft-boiled), three minutes (medium-boiled) or four minutes (hard-boiled).
Mesclun, the French word for “mixture”, is a mix of tender, young salad green leaves. The mix often includes leaf lettuce, arugula, endive, frisée, mizuma, oak leaf, mâche or lamb’s lettuce, radicchio, sorrel, chervil, groundsel, and dandelion. Mesclun can be made from a blend of different types of wild and cultivated plants with varying tastes, colours, and textures.
Voatsiperifery pepper is a wild pepper grown in southern Madagascar. Voatsiperifery pepper is one of an exceptional variety of peppers that are much smaller than the standard black pepper, and easily recognizable thanks to its comet-like stem. Rustic and above all very fragrant with an intensely herbal, floral and citrusy aroma and flavour. It comes in three colours, corresponding to the different stages of ripening: black, white and red. Voa, the Malagasy word for fruit, and tsiperifery, the local name of the plant.