Pearl Onion Tomato Salad

Make sure to make this with some decent tomatoes. Cut into cubes, add some halved pearl onions, preferably marinated in balsamic vinegar. Seeded black olives, some fresh basil.
A small chopped shallot, nevertheless.
For dressing, combine some of the onion marinade if nice, lemon juice, olive oil, salt and coarse black pepper.

Kind of Greek Salad

An easy starter for this year: tomatoes, cucumbers, feta, a big yellow pepper, an onion and some olives.
Plus a very simple dressing made of: olive oil, vinegar, salt and black pepper.

And it was very tasty!

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!