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Slutty Salad #3 Smoked Salmon, Spinach & Avocado Dressing

Pink & green and all the colours that lie between

This is a nifty little take on the classic salmon, avocado and spinach game. Here we use the dreamy creamy Avocado Dressing to liven things up and create a salad plate in minutes proving that “have dressing will salad”. Really this is the ultimate “slutty salad” requiring only baby spinach leaves, sweet little cherry tomatoes, a packet of smoked salmon and a dusting of pumpkin seeds. I just love salmon and avocado in any combination and here with the coriander and lime juice in the dressing it lifts it up with that lime cutting through the salmon. Just add a glass of rose for the perfect mid week dinner.

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Slutty Salad #2 Herby Hanoi

Fresh herbs, rice noodles and zingy miso ginger dressing. Just add cold beer.

This salad is for all those who love coriander, ginger and spring onions ie that trilogy of Asian flavours that at once says bright, palate cleansing and mouth poppingly good. In hot weather the flavours are so refreshing that merely thinking about them seems to lower the temperature…mint, basil, coriander, lime and a zingy dressing with the ginger and miso… then crunchy peanuts and carrots or baby sweetcorn and if you want something a bit more substantial then add marinated beef fillet, some char grilled chicken or squid.

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Slutty Salad #1 Zucchini & Fennel with Walnut Dressing

Its hot. Make this in five and get out of the kitchen on to the terrace.

All you need for a great salad is a fabulous dressing and some super fresh veggies and leaves. Here its zucchini cut thin and left raw (you could char grill them but the crunch of the raw ones works well with this dressing), fennel and some onions cut paper thin too. Parsley and walnuts scattered over ensure its not too pale and uninteresting and there is plenty of chlorophyll. All that remains is to reach for a bottle of something very cold..best done if you can restrain yourself …after using the sharp knives on the veggies. I’m just saying…some of us are more accident prone than others 🙂 although having said that I’ve broken more bones than cut myself in the kitchen …as a totally irrelevant tidbit. Eat this with some good cheese (calcium for dem bones) and fresh bread for a complete meal in minutes.

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