Grilled Zucchini, grilled Mushrooms with Tomato Herb Dressing & Beans

Grill some

• zucchini and
• mushrooms

separately, and with a little bit of

• olive oil

Create a dressing from

• a finely chopped shallot
• some white balsamic vinegar
• some soy sauce
• herbs
• salt, pepper and
• 3 mashed tomatoes

Add a can of

• beans 

Raw Beetroots & Mushroom Salad with Pumpkin Seed Oil

• raw beetroot, flakes
• mushrooms, thin slices
• lamb's lettuce
• spring onion
• some balsamico pearl onions

dressing:

• mustard
• honey/orange marmalade
• cassis vinegar
• salt, a tiny bit of soy sauce
• pumpkin seed oil

Shredded beetroot and mushroom salad

• beetroot, raw, grated
• mushrooms, raw, grated
• smoked tofu, grated
• pea sprouts
• some walnuts
• cress

• shallot, chopped finely
• lemon juice
• salt
• brown sugar
• olive oil
• sesame oil, roasted
• sambal oelek

Winter Salad with Pears, Cucumber, Mushrooms and Walnuts

Hard to find anything too appealing at this time of the year, that has not air travelled across half the globe.

For this salad you need equal quantities of

mushroom
cucumber
pear

all cut into cubes.

Add some chopped

walnuts

and make a dressing from

white balsamic vinegar
honey
olive oil
salt, pepper
half a shallot, chopped very finely.

Corn Lettuce with Pear and Mushrooms

It's that time of the year - falling leaves and excellent corn lettuce.

This is
corn lettuce with
pears and mushrooms, sliced

and a dressing made from
1 finely chopped shallot
lemon juice
lots of honey
cream
mustard
a little bit of remoulade
salt+pepper

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.

Tomato Mushroom Salad with Thyme

marinated mushrooms
cherry tomatoes
seedless black olives
fresh thyme, leaves removed from twig
some pickled red peppers

lemon juice
some marinade oil
chopped shallot
salt, pepper
some soy sauce

Double Mushroom Miracle

Yes! While innocently preparing today's salad, in the middle of winter kitchen darkness, we where suddenly graced by the spontaneous manifestation of a Bahrenfeld Sunrise!

Olive oil and (blood) orange juice

some sesame oil and soy sauce, salt, pepper, lemon juice
some marinade from the
marinated mushrooms
fresh brown button mushrooms

some fresh rosemary, chopped
spring onions, also chopped
tomatoes
some sunflower seeds

Fermented Mushroom Salad

A little out of control today ...

We created a marinade from soy sauce, some juice of the balsamico pickled pearl onions, olive oil and some finely chopped candied ginger pieces,
chopped the mushrooms into fine pieces, added them to the marinade and had them sit a little. Cut some mozzarella into small cubes, add to marinade, add some of the pearl onion also, and a little lime juice if handy.

This part is the true invention, we had it with some ordinary roma salad and added a bit of finely chopped carrot but you can do a lot of playing around with the base I imagine ...