Category: Salads
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Green Bean Salad with Fried Almonds
Generally when I make a green bean salad I keep it pretty simple I cook the green beans, blanche them in an ice bath then dress them with olive oil and vinegar season them salt and pepper and that’s it. For special occasions when I want something a bit fancier I often make this green…
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Turkish Beetroot Salad Recipe
I’ve have a life long love of beetroot. One of my early culinary memories is at the age of four or five making a beetroot and mayonaise sandwich at the family lunch table and being so engrossed in this task, that I missed the action of my father killing a tiger snake in the paddock…
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Delicious Black Barley Salad with Cauliflower and Pomegranate
Black barley is an ancient grain, unlike modern barley where the husk is removed the husk on black barley is kept intact. This makes it a nutritionally rich source of vitamins B and E, calcium, iron and potassium. It is also cholesterol free and a good source of fiber and selenium. I recently cut out…
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Refreshing Cucumber Salad: Simple and Versatile
This simple cucumber salad can be adapted to almost any style of cuisine. It works well as a side in a larger meal or is a refreshing add on as part of a cheese platter or in sandwiches. It’s a salad for when you can’t be bothered to make a salad but need something fresh…
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Rainbow Quinoa Salad Recipe: Healthy & Delicious
I recently got back from a six week trip to India and as usual when I’m travelling I began to crave crunchy fresh salads. During my trip I spent three weeks in an Auyervedic clinic in Kerala doing a panchakarma detox. At the end of my three weeks I was given a list of a…
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Homemade Japanese Sesame Dressing Recipe
Years ago, I used to go regularly to a Japanese restaurant that used to make the best avocado salad with roasted sesame dressing. This was the dish that I used to dream about and crave between visits. Of course, I tried recreating this salad at home with a commercial Kewpie Japanese dressing, but it was…
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Easy Asian Smashed Cucumber Salad with Garlic
I first fell in love with this smashed cucumber salad at ShanDong MaMa an eatery in Melbourne, famous for its dumplings and home-style, Northern Chinese cuisine. The first time I ate this salad I went home and googled recipes for smashed cucumber salad, because I absolutely had to recreate it at home. There were a…
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Simple Beetroot Salad with Walnuts and Cumin Seeds
It was the first communal picnic of the season last weekend. Saturday saw torrential downpours across Sydney but Sunday was a perfect day for picnicking. We went to my favorite picnic spot, Nielsen park, which has the ideal combination of shade, shelter from winds, a 1920’s kiosk for coffee & ice cream and swimming. (Nielsen…
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Moro’s Warm Squash Chickpea Salad with Tahini Dressing Recipe: Winter Food
I used to make this salad a lot a few years ago, but I forgot about it until I was having some friends to dinner on Saturday and a large Jap pumpkin that need to be used up. This is the most fabulous winter salad, hearty and warming and a meal in itself if you…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 