Category: Salad

Red Autumn Salad

It seems wrong to talk about autumn now that we have snow and minus temperature here in Switzerland. But the market and our garden is still full of all these lovely autumn products like figs, chestnuts, pumpkins and such so let’s just pretend we don’t…

The other caprese

You’ll need: lovely ripe tomatoes basil fennel seeds lemon zest good olive oil buffala mozzarella salt and pepper We fell in love with this variation of the caprese salad. Instead of the traditional seasoning crush some fennel seeds in a mortar. Add some salt and…

Raw asparagus salad

The garden is dominating of menu again – It’s asparagus time and we have to harvest every second or third day. Luckily Deb from smitten kitchen is always coming up with new brilliant asparagus recipes. After last years asparagus pizza with which is already an…

Mozzarella di Buffala

A new favorite at our place. Mozzarella di Buffala served with a marinade of slightly fried spring onions, a small dash of balsamic vinegar, lemon and lemon zest salt, pepper, very good olive oil and plenty of chopped basil. I make the whole marinade in…

Lukewarm potato salad

This a new favorite of mine, lukewarm potato salad with cucumbers and mustard dressing. Cook the potatoes till soft, meanwhile make a dressing of olive oil, white vine vinegar , plenty of dijon mustard and some crushed juniper berries. Cut the cucumber into chunks (…

Spring salad

Spring is good. Last night I made myself this very quick and very tasty salad.  The asparagus and the radish are from our allotment. First harvest this spring. I don’t have cress in the garden but at the moment I really like it I so…