From: Karyna Shuliak
To: Karyna Shuliak
Subject: Salads Francis
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:22:40 +0000
Spinach Salad:
ingr:
spinach (2 large hadfuls)
eggs (2 for 2 people)
pine nuts ( 2 tbls)
1 oz olive olive
loz balsamic vinegar
Place spinach in large mixing bowl, crumble goat cheese over spinach. Add pickled red onion/ shaved red onion.
Toast pinenuts in olive oil on skillet( oil almost covering nuts) untill nuts get slightly golden color. Then add
about loz balsamic vinegar and pour it out into the salad. Cut boiled eggs and add them into the salad.
Taste:
acidity
sweetness
balance acidity: sugars and fat( olive oil for example)
salt
Texture: leaf-F crunch (onion, pine nuts), creaminess (goat cheese)
Cucumber tomato salad:
ingr:
1/2 long cucumber ( cut "oblique") crunchy
about 1,5 cup baby tomatoes ( cut in half) sweetness
1/2 of a small red onion (thinly sliced) crunchy
salt
pepper
loz red wine vinegar
2oz olive oil
bazil
Put onions in a bowl, add salt, pepper, red wine vinegar, olive oil, tear bazil leaves ( do not chop it, as then will
feel the taste of eat constantly, rather then spontaniously every other bite)
Add cucumbers and tomatoes.
May add some cheese ( feta, or chunks parmesan)
Leave for at least 30 min, so it will keep marinading.
Lobster salad:
ingr:
2 lobster tales cooked, otherwise blanching lobster for 5 min with 1/2 lemon sqweesed in water and some fresh
herbs. Then put in ice. Cut in relatively big slices. NB: Lobster gives sweetness!!
celery long thing slices, blanche very quickly
1/4 of a bowl thingly shaved fennel
tiny bit of thingly sliced red onion
thingly sliced scallion
peel zest of 1 lime ( only green part of it), then squeze juice out of it.
roughly choped cilantro.
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Blanching: big pot of salty boiling water, ice after.
Dressing: drizzle of lemon oil, salt, then about 1,5 oz of olive oil
Bean sprout salad:
Blanche bean sprouts for 30 sec, ice. Drain ice, put bean sprouts on the paper towel.
3 scallions finely choped.
Dressing:
soy sauce 1 tbls.
sesame oil I tbls.
grape seed oil ( or avocado, flaxseed...) 1 tbls.
rice wine vinegar 2 tbls.
Mix sprouts and scallions. Add dressing. Finish with untosted sesame seeds. Little salt.
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