It was Mothering Sunday yesterday and so we had the family round for lunch. My mother is addicted to salads and so that's what I made. Since it was 18 degrees yesterday it was a a good choice.
I found the most wonderful recipe for Greek Salad dressing:
Greek Salad
The Salad (this is just what I used, you could use anything you fancy)
1 little gem lettuce
handful of mixed salad leaves (I used baby spinach, rocket and water cress)
cherry tomatoes
olives
feta
haloumi (toasted)
The Dressing (the important bit :))
1 cup red wine vinegar
1/2 tspn basil
2 gloves of garlic (crushed or grated)
1 tblspn sugar
1/2 tspn salt
1/4 tspn white pepper
1 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
Combine all the elements of the dressing apart from the oils and leave to steep for at least 20 mins.
Wash the lettuce and salad leaves and arrange on a plate. Chop the tomatoes and olives in half and scatter over the leaves.
Cut the Haloumi into approx 1/4 inch slices and dry fry in a pan until toasted on both sides.
Chop the feta into cubes and scatter over the salad and then tear the toasted Haloumi into pieces and do the same.
Add the oil to the dressing and mix vigourously with a whisk. Pour over the salad and then enjoy :).
Also have new webspace. I found a provider that does 500MB space and 12GB bandwidth per month for 20 GBP a year, and it includes PHP, MySQL and everything like that. So now I have space for my podcasts, yay!
I've recorded the whole of Distortion, and now all I have to do is edit out the mistakes and the swearing ::g::. Rob found it so funny he thinks I should do a blooper podcast as well, but that may have just been his warped sense of humour :).
Many happy returns to:
dracavia for tomorrow,xena_2001de and charismamidday for the 29th,nagasaki175, frostfalcon and themostepotente for the 30th,platformnine for the 31st andmeridian_star for the 2nd of AprilI hop you all have lovely birthdays.