Invited to a meal tonight with the simple instructions - 'just bring a salad'. Rather than dashing down the shop to buy some 'tossed salad' ingredients, I wondered what I could use from the garden. Tomatoes and other summer salad vegetables are a long way off producing yet. So, here's what I came up with using my still productive celery and the brilliant self-sown coriander about to go to flower and seed now that the weather's warming up. And a red onion just reaching maturity. A surprisingly tasty salad!
2 cups cooked chick peas (or 1 regular tin cooked chick peas)
1 cup celery, chopped
1/2 cup celery leaves, chopped
1/4 cup chopped red onion
1 small jalapeno green chilli, chopped finely
salt and pepper for seasoning
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons olive oil
Mix salad ingredients. For seasoning, shake vinegar and oil in small container and mix through salad.
In this blog I plan to add recipes based around seasonal crops in my garden, or sourced from the fresh food markets. I aim to use the principles of sourcing food within 100 miles of where I live (Adelaide, South Australia) and also to lessen the number of meat meals in a week, especially given the relationship of livestock methane emissions and global warming. I also hope to be mindful of the principles of the CSIRO diet. This blog relates to my garden blog, http://boycesgarden.blogspot.com
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