An everyday salad affair

Bean Painting: Specimens from the Luguminosae Family (2004)
Rachel Pedder-Smith, Kew

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Some good notes on leaf salads (or the way we lately roll by at our place).

Any leaf goes, as long as there are three different types, pushing it as far as 30p iceberg lettuce. Two or three types of herbs is essential, parsely, coriander, dill, mint, tarragon, basil, chives; the more unusual combination, the merrier. A punch of sweet and punch of saltiness by green olives vs raisins, capers vs green peas. Roasted nuts, salted nuts, plain nuts, grated nuts, always a winning good bite. Dressings rich in extra virgin olive oil, with a punch of either tahini, french mustard, cider vinegar, red wine vinegar or lemon. Crushed garlics are beautiful things but in moderation.

For tonight, a basic one:

– 300gr mixed italian herb leaves
– 200gr baby Spinach (chopped finely)
– 50gr parsley (chopped finely)
– 30gr dill (stalks removed)
– 30 gr basil (teared leaves)
– 80gr kalamata olives (finely sliced)
– 50gr almonds (roughly chopped)
– 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
– 2 tsp tahini
– 1 tsp white wine vinegar
– Generous black pepper

To feed  7-9 people along other dishes.

Like water for chocolate (1992)

Life.

Scrambled-deep-yellow pancakes — Wine, blueberry stains on duvet — Red peppers, Tomatoes, Red Wine, Red chillies, Red polish sausage, Red turkish sausage, Red onions, Beetroot, Peppercorns, Curry leaves, fluorescent blood stew — Wild boar loaf and blood canape for three along London bridge — Italian cafe serving wild mushroom ravioli till 9pm in clapton – Free oversize coats, books and food at lower clapton road – Burnt coat broccoli, red chilli, lemon, garlic — Egg yolk dawn swap— Instant couscous, Instant falafel — Lamb, Feta, All spice, Peppercorns, Parsley, Cloves, Virgin Oil, Sea salt, chillies — Tamarind foreign Ratatouille, boiled or braised instead of roasted — Serving sober produce to inebriated friends after midnight since 2011 — Pupil and master vegetable thai on a stockport midnight — Bún thịt nướng with Tofu only for real near the Jeffrey Museum — Sage-perfumed home made hummus — Organic yogurt pot under dinning table — Olive oil, olives on white sheets — Gray pulsing langoustines – Cheese-less pizza at indo, second and third servings, eastern passata — Miso and ginger stuffed aubergines — Don't pass me the pepper just that lime near your elbow — mancunian black scotch egg nostalgia – sambal olek, light soya, groundnut oil, fresh ginger — £0.99 £1.99 £8.49 £14.99 £19.99 — Morrocan, Egyptian, Swedish, French, Danish, English slang — Potatoes simmer in milk, garlic, butter, your phone has two messages — Silver letter knife crushed pinenuts south — Dry roasted nuts as cumin roasted nuts at the george – Charlotta making lasagne with me above the clouds — Zhakazulu

All the posts and life that never made it online.

G U T E N T A G — S C H N I T Z E L

Yum yum this is actually a SMALL Schnitzel at one of Berlin's oldest beergardens called Prater on Kastanienalle in Prenzlauerberg. Out in the courtyard there's room for around a hundred beer drinking Germans, beers is bought from a stall and from another stall you can get wurst and potato salad and various other light meals.
The restaurant which serves excellent traditional German cuisine needs booking most nights.
G O   T H E R E !