"We can add carrots in Photoshop"

Carrots, boiled
Mixed fresh herbs - parsley and coriander
Balsamico pickled onions
Sundried tomatoes
Some cucumbers, optionally

Balsamic vinegar, dark
Maple syrup
Salt, pepper
Olive oil
Shallot

Baby Spinach Potato Salad

So, what do we have today? Kind of a weird Christmas special. A lot of German families have Kartoffelsalat and Würstchen on the 24th. No Würstchen we don't have but here's a nice potato salad.

Potatos, boiled, slice
Apple, slice
Pickled gurken, slice
Eggs, boiled, slice
Some capers
Shallot
Lemon juice
Half yoghurt, half mayonnaise
Salt
Honey
And some baby spinach leaves.

Happy holidays, you, you, and you.

Sticky Brie & Date Salad

Curled lettuce
Yellow tomatoes

Brie or camembert cheese, maybe even a not so sticky kind
Walnuts
Dates

Shallot
Olive oil
Sweet mustard
Honey
White Balsamico
Salt, pepper

Lady Marmalade

Ooooh ...

I fear you may be getting tired of ginger and orange marmalade recipes, but I am trying to establish them as basic salad dressing ingredients. I think they should be! They deserve to!

So here's another pamphlet, and: shopping@, we need new orange marmalade, please.

Chicory, cut
Orange, filleted
Some sweet mustard pickled gurken (Senfgurken)
Boiled eggs

A finely chopped shallot
some grated fresh ginger
lots of ginger marmalade
Some lemon juice
some white balsamico
Salt, lots, to balance all that sweetness
coarse black pepper
Olive oil

Würfelsalat with Horseradish Dressing

How did we arrive at possessing 10 odd tubes of horseradish? The universe must be making a point. Here's our horseradish premiere, please let us know how you like it. It might be something for Christmas.

Cooked beetroots are needed and about the same proportion of cooked potatoes. Cut into cubes.
The carrot, well, was kind of there, but I would not insist on it.
some fresh parsley to top, some green olives.

Now here's the special dressing:

A shallot, finely chopped.
Lemon juice. not too much, just cover the onion.
Salt. We want it.
About half mayonnaise, half yoghurt, leaning towards more yoghurt.
Horseradish, grated fresh (careful) or from one of the many tubes.
Maybe a little olive oil.
Honey.

Yum.

Gingery Cucumber Salad

Hello.

Easy shopping list today:

Cucumber. 1, 2, as you like.

Dressing needs:

Lemon juice.
Peanut oil, a little sesame oil to taste
A tiny green chili
Some dried red chili flakes if handy
A little wasabi
A shallot, finely chopped.
Some instant veggie broth powder.
A little soy.
Lots of ginger marmalade with chunks.
And fresh coriander.

Carrot_Nut_Nutmeg Salad

This is dead easy.

Grate lots of carrots.
Mix with lots of almonds, a few raisins and fresh parsley.

Dressing:
Lemon juice and lots of honey.
Olive oil, salt and a twist of nutmeg (careful not to overdose).

Monday

Some radiccio, cut into fine stripes.
Some sweetcorn.
Some brown lentils.
Pumpkin seeds,
Some mint and a little parsley.

Ginger and orange marmalade to make the dressing nice and sweet.
Olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, a shallot, some sesame oil for extra flavour if you wish.

Couscous Salad (shocking the salad world with a plain title today)

Couscous - Prepare with veggie broth, don't use too much water for it, consider dressing will also add liquid and we don't want it to go all soggy.

Feta, crumbed
Some pine nuts, preferably toasted.
Cucumber, some cubes
Tomato, likewise
Parsley, chop.
Radishes, slice.
Peppers - some pieces. These were pickled and from a jar.

Dressing:
A shallot
Some mint leaves, chopped
Salt, pepper
Lemon juice
Orange marmalade
And I am still getting rid of the barbecue sauce, but some tomato sauce or puree will also do.
Some soy, some sesame oil. Not necessary.
Olive oil.

Stamp dressing ingredients a little in a mortar to bring out mint flavour. Minty is nice.

Check out salad #1 if you like this one: Taboulé

Irish Moon Landing

The moon is made out of cheese, we all know that. What is not so widely known is that it is in fact made out Irish Cheddar, and that the Irish were first in conquering it (thus the green flag).

So: Someone will have to grate the celeriac. And the carrots, unless you want to use jarred.
Smoked tofu, here we go again. Chop finely.
Radish, some, slice.
Cheddar, chop
Shallot
Some parsley
Pumpkin seeds

Dressing
Barbecue sauce
Olive oil
A little twist of lemon juice
Orange marmalade
Salt, pepper.

Crunchy Cassis Feast

Beetroot, cooked, sliced
cover with dressing of
olive oil, ginger marmalade, salt, pepper, some beetroot juice and super fancy cassis vinegar that really is worth an investment.

Walnuts, chopped
sunflower seeds
finely chopped celeriac, some
finely chopped smoked tofu, some
fresh parsley
cooked corn, cut fresh from the cob

Yoghurt Soupy Lentil Beets

1 can of brown lentil
cooked beetroot
parsley

plain yogurt
a little honey dissolve in water
salt pepper
olive oil
lemon juice
onion

Asparagus Avocado Salad with Creamy Mustard Dressing

1 glass of white asparagus
2 avocados
some rocket

Nicely arrange avocado and asparagus on a bed of rocket.

dressing:
a shallot, very shined chopped
creamy dijonnaise mustard, if available
mayonnaise
white balsamico
honey, dissolved in a little water
salt, coarse black pepper

Beans and Walnuts

Hello 2013 walnuts. 

A super simple bean salad:

Canned green beans
fresh parsley, lots
sundried tomatoes
walnuts

dressing:
Shallot or onion
walnut oil
black pepper
dark balsamico, lemon juice
salt, a little soy
ginger marmalade, in this case, but some honey will also do
tabasco
some crunchy hot dog onions if you like

Mock Frog

Next we have number 4, Crunchy Frog: This is another one of those clear-out the fridge salads. With love from the Hygiene Squad.
 
Cucumber, sliced
carrot
canned sweetcorn
shallot

some fresh coriander
backerbsen - fried batter balls, like Indian boondi
peanuts

For the dressing, dissolve some peanut butter in a little hot water until you have a liquidy, creamy consistency. Add sambal oelek, some soy sauce and only a little lemon juice.

Add dressing just before serving to avoid the batter balls going all soggy. If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?

Frau Rotkohl

Winter has officially arrived on the weather charts, we are counteracting with some colour.

HAPPY DIWALI!

You will need a glass of cooked red cabbage for this, and I am not sure if this is available anywhere outside of Germany?
1-2 sour apples, sliced
1-2 red onions, chopped
some orange peel and filets
some almonds

For the dressing:
white balsamico. If the rotkohl is sour, maybe even replace with orange or apple juice.
salt, pepper
oil (olive will)
some orange peel and orange marmalade
and, depending on how sour the cabbage is, a little bit of apple juice.
 

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Roasted Winter Veggies with Parsley Cream

Cut up some sweet potatoes and parsnip. Roast in a grill or frying pan.

Chop some fresh parsley, add a few drop of lemon juice and salt, sour cream.

Cover the warm veggies with cream.

Mmmmh ...

Kokomo Lentil Soup Salad

This "salad" thing has a soupy base consisting of
coconut milk
sambal oelek
soy sauce
and a little bit of "squish"ed garlic
some lemon juice

Mix all this and add it to
a can of cooked brown lentils.


Chop some spring onion
using a vegetable  peeler, create some thin sniplets of carrot
cut cucumber into seedless cubes
fresh coriander leaves
some chilis, seeded, cut in rings for decoration
optional: some peanuts

and place all that on top of the "soup"

Stir before eating, but not before serving ;)

We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow: Down in 
Kokomo.

Cucumber Tomato Salad with Olive Chili Coriander Pesto

Ever so simple and quick:

1-2 cucumbers, slices
2 tomatoes, cut into tiny cubes

and for the "pesto"

finely chop some
spring onion
fresh coriander
red chili
some green olives
raw sea salt

Couldn't find our mortar, so we just chopped everything really finely and riced it a little in a glass.

Cover with lemon juice and olive oil and pour over salad.

Krautsalat à la Tante Kerni's Mama

Same same but different. Be prepared to be eating Chinese cabbage for the rest of the months, these guys can be huge ...

Here is a very simple one. When my mum makes salat, for some reason, it is usually Chinakohl and comes with this dressing:

Finely chop a shallot and some spring onions.
Cover them with lemon juice, salt (lots), sugar and pepper.
Add a little olive oil and, finally, some yoghurt.

Add the chopped Chinese cabbage and a tomato.

It's good to have this sit a little, prior to serving.

Red Hot Chili Cabbage

Chinese cabbage, cut, sprinkle with some brown sugar and raw sea salt
Spring onions
some cucumber slices
Red chili
Sesame seeds
a few cashews

Ginger: grate, then squeeze out the juice and use that for the dressing
sesame oil
some olive oil
soy sauce
lemon or lime juice

Season 3

Season 3, had you ever wondered, is autumn.

Finely chop:
smoked tofu
celeriac, also some from the jar again I admit, as I like the pickle taste ...
red onion

some tomatoes went in as well as
some carrot slices

sprinkle with a mixture of
sprouts
roasted danish onions
raw sea salt
sunflower seeds
pumpkin seeds (Halloween approaching)
sesame seeds

dressing:
lemon juice
olive oil
sesame oil
ginger marmalade
some soy sauce
some celeriac water (from pickle jar)

I probably forgot something else.

Yes: the apple slices.

Hmm ...

Sprouts Galore

Note: This recipe involves yet another high tech challenge: the boiling of Brussels sprouts.

Sentence of the day: It's already done.
Everything I tried to do today had already happened.
Wink, wink. Who reads our blog?

The Brussels sprouts: already boiled, nicely.
Not too soft, not too crunchy.
Already chopped in half.

Already covered with
Danish fried onions
sprouts - some short kind, lentil, radish ...
sundried tomatoes and smoked tofu,
chopped finely
raw sea salt


To round this off, just add lemon juice and olive oil.

Waldorf Plus

A classic we've been wanting to do all along. Celeriac and walnuts, it's that time of the year.

Peel celeriac and cut into thin stripes.
Same with some (sourish) apples.
Pour over some lemon juice. Sprinkle with salt and a little sugar.
We also added a bit of orange juice. Some pieces of orange may also be  nice.
Walnuts, chopped not too finely.
An onion is a possibility, but not absolutely necessary. We have become kind of accustomed to them, thus chopped one without really thinking about it.
Cream, mayonnaise, a bit of white vinegar.
Some pickled celeriac can help if you do not have a lot of time to let this sit and soak a bit.

And finally, as a unique selling point, we have added some chunks of our favourite mature cheddar. It also entertains the chef, as it gives her something to nibble on in those hungry moments before lunch.

Mushroom Pear Salad with Gorgonzola Dressing

Attention! This is not for the weak and fasting.

The dressing is very rich:

Some gorgonzola or blue cheese, mash or blend with cream
a little olive oil
brown sugar
salt, lots of coarse black pepper
lemon juice and white balsamico

We had this with thin slices of:

brown button mushrooms
pear
radishes
onion rings (red)

hazel or walnuts for topping.

Superman and Sherlock both clueless!

I won't tell you why.

This sure looked good:

Fresh figs (again, because we have never stopped loving them since we fell for them last week)
Carrots cut in "schöne Scheibchen" (thin slices)
Red pepper/capsicum
Marinated sundried tomatoes (and some dried figs from the same marinade, that was the original idea, only those dried figs were never so great to begin with)

Finely chopped shallot
Marinade from figs and sundried (that had soy, honey white vinegar, olive oil)
salt, pepper

Private Entertainment

Autumn delights were looking too tempting today to let this one pass unnoticed:

I got a small hokkaido pumpkin at the market, boiled the cubes in some veggie broth and preboiled ginger slices (i had those as I am constantly drinking fresh hot ginger water to fight the approaching cold) until tender.

This goes nicely with the corn lettuce that is in season again.

Dress with

a small onion

fresh red chili

olive oil

lemon juice

some sesame oil

salt or soy sauce

honey

Top with pumpkin and sesame seeds

Curative Fresh Fig and Goats Cheese Lentil Salad

This salad has proved to have healing qualities even throughout preparation. Imagine what it will do to you when you eat it!
As usual with any miracles occuring, please document and send them to tantekerni@gmail.com.

1 can of brown lentils, cooked
1 roll of fresh goats cheese
carrots, chopped in tiny chunks
celeriac, cubes (we use the pickled preserve type again, but fresh is also fine)
and, crucial killer ingredient for this one: 5 fresh figs.

the dressing is made from honey, orange marmalade, soy sauce, a little garlic, 2 chopped shallots, white balsamico, lemon juice olive oil, pepper, a little fresh rosemary would have been nice.

Purple Rain

Hard to admit, but it looks like the winter half of the year has officially started. Only 6 more months to go for some warm weather ... sigh.

While the heat is gone and the non stop drizzle outside  is getting colder, lets stick to colour for a bit to cling to those fond summer memories ... Let's all be brave, ok?

red chicory or radiccio
orange peel
carrots, cut into fancy curls with a vegetable peeler


orange maramalade, lots
red onion
pearl onions (pickled - with balsamico)
white wine vinegar
olive oil
salt

Some pine nuts would be nice. We only had walnuts.

The uplifted frog - Celeriac, walnut, grape and cheddar salad

Oh, what a happy week we had. We went canoeing and made other people prepare our salads, we only had to eat and everything else was taken care of!

Feeling unusually rejuvenated, young and productive today.

pickled celeriac
seedless grapes
mature cheddar
carrots
walnuts

dress with:
shallot, chopped
olive oil
orange marmalade
coarse black pepper
honey
salt
lemon juice

Salad returns: Tomato Egg Triple Onion Salad

Team salad is back at the lunch table. Tons of people visiting these days, so mass production needs resulted in this.

Tomatoes, lots.
Boiled eggs, many, where did they come from?
spring onions, chopped
a shallot, chopped
some chopped black olives
Pickled onions

Dressing:
Mayonnaise
Dijon mustard
olive oil
lemon juice
brown sugar
salt
some  balsamic marinade.
Some parsley or coriander.

It's: Use-Up-that-Pickled-Ginger-Day

We are still clearing out the fridge to make room for a fresh salad season.  The only thing left to get rid of really, is a jar of pickled ginger.

That goes nicely with some
smoked tofu, finely chopped
lime juice (be generous)
soy sauce
sesame oil
and a bit of garlic

Combine all that to marinate a little,
add some sesame seed, red chili, freshly chopped, de-seeded.
Some sunflower seeds or cashews.

Cucumber, de-seeded, cut into cubes
fresh coriander leaves.
Some crunchy danish roasted onions.

Home is where the bowl is

Aah, we're back. Did anyone notice we were gone?
Not super back yet, maybe, we'll pick up slowly with a variation of an old Wundersalat classic from anno 2012, while that summer slowness starts wearing off:

Cooked beetroot, sprinkled with a bit of honey and salt, and olive oil
an apple
feta

Tahini
lemon juice
salt
some hot water
some garlic

Some sesame seeds for topping.

Watermintcucumber Salad

Friends, here is another refreshing summer salad for you:

Cucumber
Water melon
Mint
Black olives

Orange juice
Balsamico
Olive oil
Salt
Pepper

I guess I was hoping to spice this post with a little eloquence and ended up forgetting all about it. Sorry.

Shades of Green

Surprising salad again.

Ingredients : cucumber, marinated mushrooms, green olives and cottage cheese.

Dressing: olive oil, vinegar, lemon juice, honey, onion, salt and pepper.

Guest Starring: MSZ, again! Red-and-Yellow Raddicchio Sweetcorn Salad

Remember Miss Smashing Zauberstab? Turns out she doesn't need her Zauberstab to do magic. She's aiming for the Salad Queen throne with a real beauty. She says:

"Summer blessed us with a variety of vegetables and we just grabbed what we saw at the greengrocer's. When the amazingly red radicchio turned out to be quite bitter, we had the brilliant idea to mix it with sweetcorn – a blazing combination!

This is how it goes:
Cut up the radicchio in small stripes, same with a green pepper, and add a can of sweetcorn. For the dressing: use spring onions, white balsamico, oil and orange juice – mix or shake with salt, pepper and mustard and that´s it."

And it looks yummy, damn it.

Beets'n'Beans with Mint

Cooked beetroots, cut into a kind of french fry shape.
Wax beans, boiled until just tender, with enough salt.
Some chopped mint leaves.
Some feta crumbs.

A red onion, chopped.
Lemon juice, vinegar, olive oil, orange marmalade, salt, pepper.

Goodbye, Snowman

Today is a very sad day as I broke my favourite snowman cup when emptying the dishwasher : (
No more snowman coffee, ever.

Documentation, nevertheless, must go on:

We had:
some roma lettuce
cooked beetroots (hello!)
artichokes
carrot

a piece of red onion, mixed with juice of a freshly squeezed orange, orange marmalade, balsamico, sweet mustard, olive oil.

Hello Wunder, are you still out there somewhere?

Introducing: Chanterelle Pfifferling

Chanterelle? Honestly, this sounds like a creepy, modern girls' name. Let's just call them Pfifferlinge.

I fried the pfifferlinge with some smoked tofu, sunflower seeds, olive oil and a tiny bit of soy. 

A base of corn lettuce, radishes, parsley and cress for topping, and a dressing with
shallot, lemon juice, salt, pepper, sugar or honey, olive oil, yoghurt.

Streetview Salad

Not that much street  in this salad after all, but hey. I also also realize I never obtained permission for doing panel format. Is that OK?

Avocado
lots of parsley
tomatoes
zucchini
artichokes
green and black olives

Dressing:
half a red onion, micro sliced/blended
mayonnaise
Dijon mustard
sugar
olive oil
lemon juice
salt

I know. Bikini diet week again next week. Or week after next, when I am taking that new bikini to the beach : ) Too late now.

Savoury Fruit Salad

Super simple, super soft and super yummy ... and all this time I was surrounded by salad talents that kept themselves hidden!

a ripe sweeeeeeet mango (one of those yellow, sugary ones, not the firm kind that leaves you with orange threads in your teeth)
a soft avocado
a red onion

a simple dressing made from
lemon juice
olive oil
and a little white wine vinegar
salt, pepper

Given the dominant sweetness of the mango that is even enhanced by the salt, the dressing can actually be quite sour.

Love.
I mean, look at this beauty:

Spicy Avocado Zucchini Tomato Colour Explosion Salad

Even this summer is unlikely to get any brighter, and hotter, than this:

Avocado, cubes
yellow zucchini
cherry tomatoes
some parsley for topping

For the neon orange dressing, we are taking advantage of Wunder's absence this week. Some like it not-so-hot, if I may say so.

1 small onion/shallot, and a tiny bit of fresh garlic chopped so finely it is almost purreed - you could also blend it.
sambal oelek, more than usual
3 teaspoons of mayonnaise
lemon juice
olive oil
salt, sugar

Sunglasses, for looking at it.
All time top ten, dead serious.

Am I learning, or what?

Lazy Days - Zucchini Salad

Just try not to move whatsoever in this heat, and you'll be OK.

Minimal salad art of the day.

1 small green zucchini
1 small yellow zucchini
a carrot
some spring onion
some feta crumbs for topping

lemon juice
orange marmalade
salt, pepper
olive oil

And hopefully tomorrow I will have learned how to focus ...
But prepare for a demise in visual quality for the next 2 weeks - the artist is out.

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Tuesday's Variation

has a bit of roma lettuce
shallots instead of spring onions
some kernels
and the carrots seperated for saving an allergic intern's life.

The olives, however, were totally unnecessary.

Gueststarring: Miss Smashing Zauberstab - Gazpacho

Ah, a hell of a spectacle and yet another new fascinating new salad technology. This girl knows no fear. I only heard the sounds coming from the kitchen, and saw what was coming out at the other end, but I am told it went something like this:

You want lots of nice ripe tomatoes to begin with.
A cucumber
green pepper
a half red onion - chop all these hard ingredients roughly before putting your Zauberstab into operation (to blend).

some lemon juice
fresh coriander leaves (missing in pictures)
olive oil, generous glug
salt, pepper, some tabasco
we also put a tiny bit of cinnamon when the chief smasher wasn't looking ;)

This will improve and unfold if you allow to have it sit in the fridge for a while. A true life saver for a hot day.

Tomato Egg Salad with Capers and Pesto

tomatoes
boiled eggs
large capers
maybe some olives

for dressing: a nice (ready-made) green pesto. I diluted this with a bit of water, olive oil, lemon juice and gave it some extra salt.

A Forest

It's berry season. And while I was pondering to escape the office for a stroll in the cool, shady woods, I came up with this. A forest replica sitting in a blue bowl will have to do:

Gather and hunt some:

celery
cucumber
fresh parsley
red currants
some mixed marinated mushrooms
sun flower seeds - or even some pine nuts and a rosemary twig if you want to play this even more foresty ...

lemon juice
olive oil
salt pepper
a little soy

If the red currants are super sour, the dressing can do with a little honey, sweetheart (we're in!).

:)

hmmm ...

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Aine Bonus:

And while we still have berries galore, Ina, your inviting us to participate to join your competition at Lughnasa has had a super yummy side effect, that, being a non-salad, will have to remain our little secret: A killer breakfast

Take half a bowl of red currants and rasberries, some almonds, sesame and sunflower seeds (or other nuts), oats, a generous spoonful of honey, a little salt, a little chili, some ricemilk and some edible flowers (I used flower sugar for topping) - mash with a blender.

Radi-Radiccio Salad with Snap Peas and Goat's Cream Cheese

[16:19] tante kerni: these are the chopping instructions for tomorrow: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radi.jpg
[16:19] wundersalat: wow, it's beautiful.
[16:22] wundersalat: hm, how did they chop like that?
[16:23] tante kerni: there is a spiral thingy tool to put in the middle  it might be hard to copy, so i thought i'd  give you some prep time
[16:24] wundersalat: do we have that tool i.e. can you send me a picture?
[16:24] tante kerni: http://www.jop-shop.de/images/radischneider.jpg
[16:24] tante kerni: or even better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUo35rVW4qk
[16:25] wundersalat: ok thanks. I will check at EDEKA tonight.
[16:25] wundersalat: the name is RadiSchneider?
[16:26] tante kerni: don't worry, we'd only ever use it once in a lifetime, it is something very bavarian that no sane norddeutscher would ever dare to possess - i doubt it's even legal here
[16:26] wundersalat: I LIKE it! pure mechanics.
[16:26] wundersalat: ok, you will hold the knife and I will rotate.
[16:27] tante kerni: yes i am looking foward to seeing you rotate
[16:27] wundersalat: :))))
[16:29] tante kerni: lots of phantastic videos on spiral vegatable cutting, who would have thought. you might have to make contact with a few more youtubers soon ... look at the happy chap in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WFHqKTI9Lo

Another note on spirals ... We had to hide them in the above picture. But we still have enough radi left and I bet we will have the master of mechanics work on this a little more.

sugar peas, blanched (just bathe them in a bit of boiling water, that'll do)
radiccio
spring onion
radish

cream cheese from goats milk
orange, some juice
orange marmalade or honey, according to taste/dietary preference
salt
olive oil
a litte white balsamico