No-fuss Saturday lunch salad
I am always starving on a Saturday afternoon. But I don’t have the desire to take on cooking a meal. And I don’t want bread and jam. And I don’t want MacDonald’s or the likes. And I don’t want loads of dishes and cleaning up to do. I want no-fuss. I want something that is quick and easy and light, because we play tennis afterwards, but it still needs to be filling.
A protein salad like this one works for me. With a banana in the tennis bag.
Make a salad from the following ingredients:
- Mixed salad leaves, a huge bowl.
- mixed herbs of your choice
- Bocconcini cheese
- a can of “Catalan tuna” (tuna in a tomato sauce)
- a small can of sweetcorn(or frozen)
- sun dried tomatoes
- cucumber sticks
- dry roasted almonds
- dried cranberries
- A vinaigrette made of: sun dried tomato paste, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, sherry vinegar, lemon juice, salt and pepper, small finely chopped shallot.
serves 2
…moulin rouge…
Delicious salade and wonderfum picture of poppies.
06/06/2008 at 19:16
My family knows that poppies are my absolute favorite flower and every year in September they come into bloom and as that is my birthday month. A big bunch poppies is always a part of my gift.
Delicious salad!!!!
07/06/2008 at 16:01
Wow those poppies. I like the montage.
Salad sounds perfect, I haven’t tried Catalan tuna…
08/06/2008 at 15:42
Did you take these fabulous poppy photos, Ronell? GORGEOUS!
They are my favorite flower!
08/06/2008 at 23:57
the field of coquelicot is really captivating!! everytime i see this flower it makes me happy!!
thanks ronell
09/06/2008 at 09:52
Your salad looks like the perfect weekend lunch… and those poppies! Just beautiful!
09/06/2008 at 12:45
Yum Ronell, this is my kind of salad. Perfect for summer or anytime really.
13/06/2008 at 23:53
I love the sound of that salad – and I know exactly how you feel on Saturdays! It seems to be a waste to be spending time in the kitchen when the sun is shining outside and you don’t have to be at work
And as for those stunning poppies – oh WOW! We don’t really have fields of poppies around here, but I do have a mini poppy field in my garden. I sowed a ton of seeds about 4 years ago and since then they just seed themselves and come up in droves! The bumblebees LOVE our garden!
16/06/2008 at 16:30
what a lovely salad that is. yum, it sounds just perfect with tuna and little cheeses. clever combo i’m going to try! oh and those flowers, swooooon…
18/06/2008 at 06:40
The salad sounds perfect. I love the use of sun-dried tomato paste in the vinaigrette.
06/07/2008 at 00:31
mmmm looks delicious!
21/09/2008 at 16:58