“These are our salad days,” sang Spandau Ballet back in the day and now is the time of year when salads come into being and I love a good salad. I eat salad every day for lunch
Higgidy pies recently teamed up with Sarah Raven, the gardening people. They put their heads together and sent out to the blogging world a challenge ‘Make us the perfect salad to serve alongside a Higgidy pie’
Wonderful I thought, I’m in!
I was sent along a pack of lettuce seedlings to grow in my back garden, I put them in tubs and forgot to label them as I was in a hurry for the school run Big Mistake. I put them in a shady area and I waited for the risk of frost to go. I used a good compost and there was no need to water frequently as the weather turned and it rained every day.
However, during all that rain we were visited. Frequently and I wasn’t paying attention, the slugs and snails got to two of my tubs! Ate the damn lot. so I popped them up on a metal fire pit that’s out of use at the moment hoping it would be too uncomfortable for them to climb up, it’s a bit rusty you see.
Anyway, seeing as I wasn’t having much luck with my lettuce but wanting to take part in the challenge anyway I went out to buy some ingredients, I let my gut lead me and chose my favourite things that are very popular at the moment, asparagus, rocket, french beans and baby tomatoes, then I made my salad and it was really really good.
So now remains to choose which Higgidy pie I serve it with and having had a look at their website I’m going to choose the Chicken & Smoky Spanish Chorizo Pie because the delicate flavours of my salad will be the perfect backdrop to this punchy chicken pie.
[yumprint-recipe id=’34’]Here are a couple of other quick and easy salad ideas I shared last summer.
apart from the egg, that salad looks amazing mari and perfect for a hot day like today x
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Ohhh – no egg Jenny in this one?? Maybe you thought the Jersey potato was an egg?
YUM! I love hearty salads like this. Chuck in a bit of tuna and you’d almost have a salad nicoise! :)
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Mais oui! Maybe another time I will but this time I used it as an accompaniment to a main course
Blinking slugs… Put a circle of pennies around the base of the plant, that should keep them off! (I use cent coins, they are worth less!) :D The salad looks delicious however, and we can get plenty of asparagus. I would have to make do with other kartoffels however, no Jersey royals here… xx
Slugs are such a nuisance *bah*…. but the salad looks yummy scrum – it’s so the time of year for Jersey Royals, love them with lashings of butter!
How dare those slugs and snails eat all your greens! What a shame! At least you were still able to pick up some delicious ingredients. I love salad and am trying to get into different dressings as I never feel that I get it right. Your salad looks delicious and I love a good drizzle of balsamic x
That does look so lovely. I very rarely make salad as the husband grumbles at me as he prefers ‘real food’ but I think this might convince him to rethink
I so plan to grow some of our own food when I have finished work. I think it is a great example for children.
Ooh Mari, that sounds lush! All my favourite ingredients on one plate! x
This looks absolutely delicious, Mari, and a perfect accompaniment to many a summer barbecue :-)
Damn those slugs though!
I’d really like to start growing my own vegetables, I think it’ll be such a good thing for my son to get involved in as well. What’s easy to start off with?
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This looks so good. I never think to have asparagus in a salad. Will have to give it a try.
ooh delicious!
Very nice Mari, I never seem to have asparagus, I must rectify that. Mich x