Replacement Friseé (not Friseé Replacement)

Here we are, stranded with some very average friseé. Whenever the delivery people don't have what we want, they bring us "replacements", and those can be tricky.

So, friseé.

And a dressing.
Coconut milk
Orange juice and a squeeze of lemon. The lemon is optional and largely dependent on orange quality. Here we need it to remind the orange that it is actually a citric fruit.
Sambal oelek
Some grated fresh ginger
Ginger marmalade
salt (I put some smoked salt again, and a splash of soy)

Smokey Lentil Salad

After close to 250 salad recipes, one would think it should get hard to get excited about anything.
But I have a new favourite ingredient and you can expect extensive playing around with it in the coming decades.

I can see it becoming a basic, and no sane salad soul should go without it:

smoked salt.

Just drape some random ingredients around it and you will be fine.

We had our debut with
brown lentils
sweetcorn
carrot
a shallot

dressing made from
parts olive, parts sesame oil
orange juice with a twist of lemon
mango chutney/orange marmalade
some tabasco to taste

The Salad that Scared 3 Grown Developers to Death

They scream! They jump backwards! They make faces!
Only because of this: the fake vegan Leberkäse. Meat eaters are a delicate species, so soft and easily freaked out.
Let me know when you grow tired of my fascination for vegetarianizing South German wurstsalats.

For this one you also (apart from the Leberkäse) need:
Radish (Bavarian Radi). Cut into very thin slices and allow to water with salt.
seedless grapes
some pickled gurken

Top with
Pretzels
Alfalfa Sprouts

Dress with
some gurkenwater
mustard
oil
mayonnaise
sugar
pepper

Now I can also admit I put some of the horrible beer jelly, but it did not even taste too bad.

This one is for the bold. Enjoy.

Sauerkraut Salad

some mild sauerkraut
a couple of pickled gurken
5 tomatoes
spring onion
raisins
grapes
fake vegan leberkäse

soy sauce, onion, brown sugar, some sweet mango chutney

Can o' Beans

'Well,' said Can o' Beans, a bit hesitantly,' imprecise speech is one of the major causes of mental illness in human beings.'

Tom Robbins, "Skinny legs and all"

So let's try to be precise for once:

1 can o' green beans
4 spring onions, chopped
2 peeled oranges
1 red pepper
some 50 g walnuts
salt to taste (precision out the window)
3 table spoons olive oil
2 table spoons while balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon orange marmalade
juice from the orange

Fitness Salad

That is one we have avoided so far, but the term "Fitness Salad" is bound to appear in every second women's magazine.

A strange term, if you think about it. Just thinking about the word that popped to my head this morning, I think this is what a "Leckerer Fitnesssalat" should look like. If this does not get you into shape then what.

Oh, ingredients.

any sprout mix. I wanted alfalfa, they seem to be out of fashion.
sundried tomatoes (and here the magazine would read: soaked in water, not oil)
sunflower seeds
i added some pumpkin seeds
cucumber

1 chopped shallot
let sit in lemon juice and salt and pepper and a pinch of brown sugar and some mustard
before adding the yoghurt

And remember to go for a run afterwards.

Post-apocalyptic salad #1

Research shows that if the world were to end today, foods on stock at the average supermarket could feed you for approximately 55 years. 62 if you are also ready to eat the canned dog and cat food.

That is some fantastic news.

55 years of lovely canned salads starting today with:

a can of green beans
pickled cooked beetroot
Tahini
lemon juice concentrate
orange marmalade
some hot water
a little sesame oil and seeds

an onion (if you can did one out in your back yard)
plus the memory of fresh coriander leaves. Just imagine they were there.

Carte Blanche Salad

Today I got carte blanche from Tante Kerni to put anything I want in the salad and then she will make a nice dressing to fix things up. :)

So I challenged with:
- baby spinach
- thinly sliced red radishes
- striped smoked tofu
- soft goat cheese
- black olives

and got response:
- rouille
- mustard
- olive oil
- raw sea salt
- white balsamico
- honey
- orange marmalade
- a little mayonnaise or yogurt
 
Cheers!

Pretzel Salad

Somewhat expanding on yesterday's octoberfestish approach of rural South Germany.

For all of those likers of wurst salad out there. And those afraid of even the thought of it.

This one is with
Bergkäse/Suisse cheese cut in stripes
some stripes of smoked tofu
onion rings
red radishes
pickled gurken
black olives
some pickled red peppers though those are not essential.

Dress with vinegar, oil, sugar, salt, pepper, mustard, some soy and gurkenwater.

And, of course, crumbled pretzels as a topping!

Yet another Vegetarian Wurstsalat

I was so stunned by the couple eating Wurstsalat at our table at a café in Constance, returning all the green decoration that came with it, just eating the meat and onion, that I just had to re-try this.

1 vegan leberkäse - if you cannot get that, replace with smoked tofu
You can also add some cheese to make this a Suisse vegetarian wurstsalat :)

some pickled red pepper and pickled gurken
red onion, rings
parsley
some tomatoes

mustard, oil, sugar, salt, pepper, vinegar, mayonnaise to taste