Salads / FlyingPlates

Quinoa salad

Roasted beet, butternut squash and apple saladThis is a recipe I got in an Ina Garden book and it is so good I have not changed a thing. It is colourful, it is flavourful, and it even has crunch!

Spaghetti vegetable saladThis recipe has been a staple of my summer parties...it is colourful and tastes great. Do not be intimidated by the ingredient list, this is not difficult.

The kids’ favourite potato salad

This is a very traditional southern potato salad recipe. If you want to be decadent you can sprinkle some crispy bacon pieces over it.

Watermelon, rosewater-marinated feta and pistachio saladI got this recipe from a New Zealand cookbook years ago before this fruit watermelon feta combo became a thing. It was great then, it is still great now. A perfect summer salad. Verjuice is the sour acidic juice of unripe fruit. Named from the French vert (green) and jus (juice), verjuice, verjus, or vertjus, as it is also called, is literally 'green juice'. Its history stretches back to medieval, and perhaps even Roman, times when it was made with whatever fruit grew locally - crabapples, apples, gooseberries and plums. Contemporary verjuice is typically extracted from grapes. Good verjuice is tangy yet mellow, with a light, fresh acidity underpinned by fruitiness. It is milder than vinegar, softer than lemon juice and more ascerbic than wine.

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