From: Karyna Shuliak

From: Karyna Shuliak To: Karyna Shuliak Subject: Salads Francis Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:22:40 +0000 Spinach Salad: ingr: spinach (2 large hadfuls) eggs (2 for 2 people) pine nuts ( 2 tbls) 1 oz olive olive loz balsamic vinegar Place spinach in large mixing bowl, crumble goat cheese over spinach. Add pickled red onion/ shaved red onion. Toast pinenuts in olive oil on skillet( oil almost covering nuts) untill nuts get slightly golden color. Then add about loz balsamic vinegar and pour it out into the salad. Cut boiled eggs and add them into the salad. Taste: acidity sweetness balance acidity: sugars and fat( olive oil for example) salt Texture: leaf-F crunch (onion, pine nuts), creaminess (goat cheese) Cucumber tomato salad: ingr: 1/2 long cucumber ( cut "oblique") crunchy about 1,5 cup baby tomatoes ( cut in half) sweetness 1/2 of a small red onion (thinly sliced) crunchy salt pepper loz red wine vinegar 2oz olive oil bazil Put onions in a bowl, add salt, pepper, red wine vinegar, olive oil, tear bazil leaves ( do not chop it, as then will feel the taste of eat constantly, rather then spontaniously every other bite) Add cucumbers and tomatoes. May add some cheese ( feta, or chunks parmesan) Leave for at least 30 min, so it will keep marinading. Lobster salad: ingr: 2 lobster tales cooked, otherwise blanching lobster for 5 min with 1/2 lemon sqweesed in water and some fresh herbs. Then put in ice. Cut in relatively big slices. NB: Lobster gives sweetness!! celery long thing slices, blanche very quickly 1/4 of a bowl thingly shaved fennel tiny bit of thingly sliced red onion thingly sliced scallion peel zest of 1 lime ( only green part of it), then squeze juice out of it. roughly choped cilantro. EFTA00526981 Blanching: big pot of salty boiling water, ice after. Dressing: drizzle of lemon oil, salt, then about 1,5 oz of olive oil Bean sprout salad: Blanche bean sprouts for 30 sec, ice. Drain ice, put bean sprouts on the paper towel. 3 scallions finely choped. Dressing: soy sauce 1 tbls. sesame oil I tbls. grape seed oil ( or avocado, flaxseed...) 1 tbls. rice wine vinegar 2 tbls. Mix sprouts and scallions. Add dressing. Finish with untosted sesame seeds. Little salt. EFTA00526982