Post-Christmas Creative Salad

Ah this was much better then we expected. While the great salad master is far a way from us we tried to be creative on our own. We nicely cut and put together some carrots, tomatoes, maize and  radicchio. And for the dressing we used: olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper and and all the spices we could found in the kitchen. :)

And I can tell you it was very good, much more than we expected.

 

Pre-Christmas Fruit Salad

What kind of fresh fruit do you get here in Winter? We cut up some apples, banana, oranges and tired kiwi. Sliced some dried figs thinly, and had those sit in some apple-orange-lemon juice to soak up the liquid. Some raisins and you can throw some other dried fruit that you like. Lots of nuts, like pistachios and walnuts here, some cinamony weihnachtsmarkt lebkuchen spice mix (be careful with that though, not too much), some chili flakes and thin slices of fresh ginger.
To sweeten, we only put the juice and a little bit of maple sirup.
Served nicely with some plain yoghurt and maple sirup to top.

Merry Christmas everyone! I am off and hope to be back with lots of inspiration in 2013.

Simple Vegetables

Ah, it was so simple and beautiful. We had just nicely cut vegetables and a yogurt dressing.
And I can tell you it was served so nicely that I didn't have a chance to take a picture of the dressing.
Everyone became hungry almost immediately! :)

All credits go to our new member. Welcome new salad friend!

Chick Pea Carrot Feta Mash - impro style

Now, with most of the salad makers lame, invalid or just afraid of the cold, no shopping today.

We threw together some carrots, feta, tomatoes, chick peas.
Lemon juice, olive oil, an onion, salt, coarse black pepper and fresh parslyey for the dressing.

Hear me, this is not too bad at all.

Feld-Wald-und-Wiesen Salad

Corn lettuce and brown button mushrooms (the brown ones have a nice, earthy taste - slice thinly), some cherry tomatoes, maybe.

Dressing: finely chop a shallot/onion, sprinkle with sugar and salt to extract juice. Add some olive oil & lemon juice. Plain yoghurt. Mustard, some mayonnaise maybe, and some coarse black pepper.

Vegetarian Blutwurst Salad

Cooked Beetroot, sliced
Top with some "real" feta (sheep's milk), crumbled, mixed with some crumbled walnuts.
Dressing: some fresh rosemary leaves, cut into tiny bits, freshly squeezed orange juice, some balsamico, olive oil, salt, pepper, sweet mustard.

Cucumber & Carrots dressed in Pretend Saté Sauce

finely slice cucumber & carrots (a vegetable peeler is good for the carrots, you want this to look BEAUTIFUL), fresh coriander leaves.

for the dressing: dissolve a generous spoonful of peanut butter with a little hot water. add coconut milk and sambal oelek, and a little lime juice, but not too much, and some soy sauce for the savoury taste.

Green beans and antipasti salad

We are living on our supplies today.
1-2 red peppers, 1 glass of cooked green beans, 1 glass of marinated mushrooms, some black olives, feta.
Lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper, 1-2 shallots for a simple dressing.
Some fresh parsley.

Red Salad with Beets and Pickles

Beetroot (raw, thinly sliced, works best with a veggie peeler), apple (sliced), green olives, a small glass of Senfgurken (mustard pickles, says LEO) and some of their water.
Dressing: olive oil, honey, chopped onion, lemon juice, salt, a little bit of vegetable broth if fluid is not enough to dissolve the: grated horseradish (from a glass or tube)

This image "deserves" to be published. :)

Orange Radicchio Salad / dear wunder:

If I am still in the interview at salad preparing time, you could:

cut up the raddichio (thinnish stripes)
slice the radieschen (radishes)
peel orange and cut into thin slices, quartered (pips removed). Any excess orange juice from cutting can go in the bowl.

and, if time, finely chop one shallot for the dressing which will be:

orange marmalade, white balsamico, olive oil, salt & pepper

But I should be able to take care of that.

Thanks!

- Thank you too. It was really good. Here is an image:

Mannheim Wunder

Super quick, super yummy, I need to share this from on the road:

Throw some corn lettuce (yes, it is still winter) on plate, decorate with flakes of raw beetroot, pear and brown mushrooms - sliced off with a vegetable peeler (we need to get one, homies). Top with some sprouts and walnuts.

Dressing to sprinkle on top: sweet mustard, mix of black and white balsamicos and a little lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper.

And here's the Hamburg re-enactment with the good old blue bowl, minus sprouts, plus Mr professional photographer:

Landslide Salad

I forget what was in this, but I liked the photo :)

It looks like chick peas, roma, feta, black olives, tomato, cucumber. The dressing, again, has some fresh rosemary in it. Basic o-oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, onion.

IR Salad

A bit different view on salad. :) Taken by FLIR E60.

And here is how it looked normally:

So we had some carrots and cucumbers with olives and feta cheese. A bit strange combination but tasted quite good.

Light Ceasar Salad

Well not exactly Ceasar salat but there was lot of light. :) And yeah, it tasted similar.

So simple and easy: lettuce, tomato and parmesan with mayonnaise dressing.

Triple Tomato Salad

For this, we used two different kinds of fresh and some sundried tomatoes.
The oil for the dressing had been pre-used to marinade some feta, you could also use some of the sundried tomatoes marinade if they were sitting in oil - though that tends to be sunflower, and I highly recommend a good olive oil to the full flavour out of these tomatoes.
And onion, chopped. Some fresh rosemary, salt and coarse black pepper.

Rosemary, Fig & Goats Cheese Salad with Baby Spinach or Corn Lettuce

If only I had a frying pan & stove, I would deepfry the rosemary and use the oil for the dressing.

Ah, the dressing! Quite finely cut up some fresh rosemary, leaves removed from twigs, and soak them  in honey (lots!), olive oil, a little of the whole seed mustard, but not too much, juice of half a lemon. Add quite a bit of salt to the dressing to balance the honey's sweetness, even a tiny bit of soy sauce can be good. Let it sit a bit, if possible.

Also, if you can, have your dried figs sit in bit of boiling water before you start cutting them. They will grow! and look almost fresh.

As greens, we used corn lettuce for this one - it being winter, and the baby spinach wasn't looking too good. Try either, I'd say! I have a feeling the spinach is going to boost this recipe to even greater heights.

Last, cut up a roll of goats cheese in bite size portions. Combine with figs and leaves. Just prior to serving, sprinkle with with rosemary honey dressing. 

Carrot & Celeriac - CC Salad

Easy. Yummy. Fast.

But oh, not every office kitchen has a good grater, aua-aua. So if you want blood ...

You need:
Some carrots, greated. The rest of yesterdays celeriac, peeled and grated. An apple - could be greated, but may as well be cut up if the person grating things has already hurt his fingers badly.
Some almonds please, again.
An onion, but you can leave that in this case.
Lemon juice, olive oil, salt and some honey :)

Spicy Lentil Salad

For this recipe, lacking a stove and the time, we used some pre-cooked canned brown lentils.
Pistacios. Carrots, celeriac. Fresh parsley (the curly kind). An onion, finely chopped. Sundried tomatoes. Good olive oil, some lemon juice. The twist for the dressing are some unusual spices: some Garam Masala, e. g., or the good old Lebkuchengewürz. To make it extra fancy, you may even want to use some seeds like cumin, fenugreek, brown mustard and toast them in a frying pan for fragrance ...

We'll be playing around with this a little.

Pretend Cesar Salad

OH so super simple:

cut up two roma salads
for the dressing, combine some mayonnaise, lemon juice, mustard with seeds, salt, pepper, honey.
toss, and generously sprinkle with parmesan flakes.

Rocket with Feta and Sun-Dried Tomato

Simple and delicious: rocket, feta and sun-dried tomato with a bit of oil and salt and paper.

Chick Pea Salad with Dried Figs

oh, what a day. some brain food needed:

mix some cooked chick peas, carrots cut in little cubes, fresh parsley and rocket (cut). throw in some pistacios to show off.

for the dressing, chop an onion or shallot, add some lemon juice, olive oil and honey, a bit of fresh ginger, garlic if you dare and like, salt, pepper. then cut some dried figs in very thin slices and have them marinade in the dressing for a bit.

some added feta is nice, too.

Back to the Basics

A very basic salad: cucumbers, tomatoes, a sweet pepper and an onion.
With a very basic dressing: olive oil, vinegar, some salt and black pepper.

Cabbage Tomato Salad

Even more cabbage. :) But this time with a bit of tomatoes and a simple dressing.

The salad mastermind is on vacation so we were not very creative today.

Chinese Cabbage Experiment

More cabbage!

To start with, and an hour ahead of serving time, slice some nice juicy ginger really finely, and soak it in a glass, together with some lemon or lime juice, light soy sauce, some sugar, salt to bring out the juice, a chopped onion (and, for the expert, some orange marmalade, because the jar sitting in our fridge is still not empty...) and put it aside to soak.

Cut the cabbage, also really finely, and put it in the bowl.
Squeeze in (violently, through your own hands, come on!) a nice tomato, so it goes nice and mushy and blends in with the dressing.
You could also add some red chili or paprika to this mixture, but the cabbage should stay the main ingredient taste-wise.
Now what would really be nice with this is some roasted sesame oil.
Pour over ginger mixture and allow some marinading time before serving.
Sprinkle with some sesame seeds.

Sauerkraut Salad

a glass of fresh sauerkraut
an apple
an onion
oil
some lemon juice
some raisins pre-soaked in apple juice
pepper, salt
some pistacios, if you like cause something fancy was missing for the photo.

let me add this one was surprisingly popular with the non salad eaters.

Kohlrabi Donation Salad

No shopping today, so we had to survive on what was there ... this wasn't looking too promising a day until ...
Wundersalat received it's first very generous donation: 2 unclaimed, beautiful kohlrabis!

So here we are:
2 kohlrabis, peeled & cut very thinly
an orange, also cut thinly, some orange peel
some english orange marmalade
almonds as seen in picture, dried chili flakes
olive oil, white balsamic vinegar, salt, a shallot

Beet Splatter

Now, let me see if I remember anything else, apart from the person complaining who had to grate the beetroot ... Watch your favourite shirt, this colour is lethal.

Grated (raw!) beetroot, onion, appel, almond slivers, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, some sugar

You can literally feel haematosis kicking in while eating this, seriously.

Crunchy Asian Cucumber Salad

So simple, so good! 

Cucumber, peanuts, red chilies, fresh coriander, lime juice, soy sauce.

Not-so-special-salad-that-someone-ended-up-really-liking

two cucumbers (seeded), some of what Edeka embarrassingly calls "Partytomaten" (red and yellow), some fresh coriander if you like, some chopped sundried tomatoes, 1 red pepper

the twist for the dressing is to chop the shallots really finely (almost mashed) and use the oil of the sundried tomatoes (+ a little extra olive oil), juice of 1 lemon, salt, pepper and some dried flaked chilis (we are abusing wunder salat's absence to do the spicy stuff)

if you add some feta, which is nice, obviously this recipe will loose it's veganinity

please excuse the photo, the artist is out.
try this despite of the photo, all it takes is a little courage ...
and I want a proper camera for my birthday. thank you.

Pretend Russian Potato Salad without Potatoes

Get some: cooked beetroots, pickles (cornichons), a green apple, boiled eggs & onion

I so don't remember what I put in the dressing: some mayonaise, lemon juice, salt, o-oil, vinegar I guess ...

I smell winter!

Ha! Mango Chili Feldsalat

Now, friends: I personally think this one was to die for, though we are lacking documentation on this one as Wunder is on holidays ...
You need: One ripe sweet soft mango, corn lettuce (Feldsalat), 1 red chili, fresh coriander
dress with: lots of lime juice, soy sauce, a shallot, some oil

And be sure to have a peanut butter sandwich to go with it!
Aahhh ...

Accidental Southwestern Salad (northwestern style)

kidney beans, sweetcorn, fresh coriander, cherry tomatoes
a shallot, lots of lemon juice, honey, salt, chili and a twist of soy sauce

Leftover Salad

Some creative work: tomatoes, cucumbers, Parmesan, an onion, olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.

Simple Cucumber Salad

Something simple. Cucumbers, an onion, olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.

nutty carrot salad

getting ready for winter, brrr ...

what you need: grated carrots, a grated apple, an onion if you insist, almonds, some nuts and raisins
lemon juice, olive oil, honey, salt & pepper

Tabbouleh

From the exotic oriental world of the middle east comes this tasty salad called Tabbouleh. It makes a fine addition to that region's cuisine which dishes are known to be somewhat greasy and prominently contain meat (such as Kibbeh and Sfiha). Tabbouleh is very refreshing thanks to the combination of lemon and tomatoes and parsley, and the inclusion of Burghul (also known as Bulghur) and onion and dried mint gives it a unique taste you'll never forget.

Tabbouleh is very popular in middle eastern countries, and you can usually order it in most middle eastern delicatessens, or you can easily prepare it yourself, here's how to do that:

The first step is to put 2 tablespoons (~15ml each) of Burghul in a glass of water.

Then, these ingredients should all be added in a big bowl:

• Half an onion, cut to small pieces (assuming the size of the onion is roughly the size of tomato. also, a small onion would also work).
• 1 band of parsley (cut the leaves only and into tiny pieces).
• 1 normal-sized tomato (as opposed to the small cherry tomatoes).
• 1 teaspoon (~5ml) of dried mint leaves (basically mint in a form similar to salt...).
• 1 squeezed lemon.
• 3 tablespoons (~15ml each) of olive oil.
• Some salt.

The recipe is for two to three people.

Make a bowl of Tabbouleh today and show us the result in the comments section!

Wunder Greetings from Syria :)
Lawand.

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