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