Pinneaple salad with strawberries

Another sweet salad.  This time with strawberries and adding the saltie touch with iberian ham.  I hope you like this one.  

INGREDIENTS (for two people):
- Lettuce or a salads bag.
- 3-4 slices of iberian ham.
- 1-2 slices of fresh pineapple.
- 10 strawberries.
- Pistachios.

For the dressing:
- A natural or greek yogurt.
- 3-4 honey teaspoonful.
- A little white pepper.

PREPARATION:
- Put the lettuce or the salad prepare as the base into the salad bowl.
- Pick up the ham slices and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Pick up the pinneaple slices and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Pick up the strawberries and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Now, mix in another reccipient the yogurt and the honey, adding the white pepper.
- Dress the salad with the previous mix.

- Spread up the pistachios over the salad bowl.
- Serve it!

Tuna Salad

An idea from my friend Ewelina.  She is master of the salads.  

INGREDIENTS (for two people):
- Lettuce or a salads bag.
- A tuna tin.
- Olives.
- A half an onion.
- 100 grs. of pickled cucumbers.

- 100 grs. of sweet corn.

- A tomatoe.
- Pistachio.

For the dressing:
- A natural or greek yogurt.
- A little basil.

PREPARATION:
- Put the lettuce or the salad prepare as the base into the salad bowl.
- Pick up the tomatoe in pieces and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Pick up the cucumbers and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Pick up the onion and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Spread the corn over the salad bowl.
- Spread the tin of tuna over the salad bowl.
- Spread the olives over the salad bowl.
- Now, mix in another reccipient the yogurt and the basil.
- Dress the salad with the previous mix.

- Spread up the pistachios over the salad bowl.
- Serve it!

Rocket salad with pear and cheese

Once again, I have to thank my friend Ewelina for this simple and delicious idea.  Thanks Ewelina!

INGREDIENTS (for two persons):
- 200 grs. of rocket.
- A mature pear (with juice).
- Blue cheese.
- Nuts.

For the dressing:
- Is not necessary if the pear has his own juice.

PREPARATION:
- Put the rocket as the base into the salad bowl.
- Pick up the pear in litle pieces.
- Pick up the blue cheese in little pieces.
- Spread up the pieces of pear and cheese, and the nuts.
- Serve it!

Broccoli salad with petals of almonds

Once again, I have to thank my friend Ewelina for this simple and delicious idea.  Thanks Ewelina!

INGREDIENTS (for two persons):
- 200 grs. of broccoli.
- 100 grs. of almonds in petals.

For the dressing:
- Mayonnaise.

PREPARATION:
- Pick up the broccoli and put as the base into the salad bowl.
- Fry the petals of almonds without fat in a frying pan.
- Cover the broccoli with the almonds.
- Dress it with mayonnaise.
- Serve it!

Cesar Salad

Today is the moment to review old dishes.  This is my version about the so well knewn césar salad.

INGREDIENTS (2 people):
- Lettuce or a salads bag.
- 2 chicken steaks.
- 1 egg.
- 100 grs. of breadcrumbs.
- Grated cheese.

For the dressing:
- 4 spoonfuls of mayonnaise.
- 2 spoonfuls of olive oil.
- 1 clove of garlic.
- 3-4 spoonfuls of lemon juice.
- A little white pepper.

PREPARATION:
- Put the lettuce (or the salads bag) well washed as the base into the salad bowl.
- Boil the egg.  Once the egg is boiled, pick up in littel pieces and reserve it.
- Pick up the chicken into little pieces, and fry it, until the chicken were well toasted.
- Add the breadcrumbs, the chicken pieces and the egg.
- For the dressing, mix up into a separate recipient the oil, the mayonnaise, the garlic well picked and mashed, the lemon juice and the white pepper.
- Dress the salad withe the mix prepared in the below point.
- Add the grated cheese, remove and serve it.

Cranberries salad

Now, i want to share with you the recipe of this salad.  Some time ago, i heard about a salad prepared by americans in the "Thanksgiving day", using cranberries.  It's very simple, and it serves as a starter.  An advice about the use of the cranberries.  In the original recipe, they used dry cranberries.  I prefer to use fresh cranberries.  It's a question of tastes, but you can use either dry or fresh cranberries.

INGREDIENTS (2 persons):
- Lettuce or a salads bag.
- 200 grs. of cranberries.
- 100 grs. of croutons.
- 100 grs. of walnuts.
- A little goat cheese (optional).

For the dressing:
- 2 spoonfuls of modena balsamic vinegar.
- 4 spoonful of olive oil.
- 1 spoonful of honey.
- 1 little spoonful of dijon mustard.
- A little white pepper.

PREPARATION:
- Put the lettuce (or the salads bag) well washed as the base into the salad bowl.
- Clean up and put into the bowl the cranberries.
- Add the croutons, the walnuts and the goat cheese (if you decide to use it).
- For the dressing, mix into a separate recipient the olive oil, the balsamic vinegar, the honey, the mustard and the white pepper.
- Dress the salad with the mix prepared in the previous point, and serve it.

Blackberries with iberian ham salad

This is very similar to this one.  I only replace strawberries with blackberries, and the raisins with toasted sunflower seeds.  The rest is the same.  The only reason to publish it, is to demonstrate that with a simple change, you can have another dish.  And maybe with another taste and properties.  I hope you like it.

INGREDIENTS:
- Lettuce or a salads bag.
- A tomatoe.
- 2 or 3 ham slices.
- Roughly ten blackberries.  It's a question of taste.
- 2 or 3 pieces of goat cheese.
- A handful of toasted and peeled sunflower seeds.

For the dressing:
- Apple vinegar.
- Olive oil.

PREPARATION:
- Put the lettuce (or the salads bag) well washed as the base into the salad bowl.
- Cut the tomatoe and spread over the lettuce.
- Over all, put the ham slices.- Cut into little pieces the goat cheese and spread over the recipient.
- Spread over the salad the blackberries, in an ornamental way.
- Spread over the salad the almond toasted and peeled.
- For the dressing, we spread a little oil over the recipient, and then, a little apple vinegar.
- Serve it.

Chicken salad with mushrooms dressed with lemon sauce

Today i'm willing to innovate.  We're going to prepare a raw mushrooms salad.  But, we're going to dress it with something that we know well how to prepare: the lemon sauce (or orange sauce) chinese.  If we add to this mix, little pieces of chicken toasted, the final result can be delicious.

INGREDIENTS (2 rations):
- 3-4 chicken steaks (depending on the weight).
- 8-10 mushrooms.
- A littel handful of peeled and rolled almonds.
- A little handful of little pieces of toasted bread.
- Lettuce or a salads bag.

For the chicken and mushrooms marinade:
- Lemon (or orange) juice.

For the lemon (or orange) sauce:
- 10 lemon (or orange) juice spoonfuls.
- 4 white wine vinegar or apples vinegar spoonfuls.
- 6 sugar spoonfuls.
- 8 cold water spoonfuls.
- 2 complour spoonfuls.

PREPARATION:
- Clean up the chicken steaks and the mushrooms, and put them into a bowl.  Cover it with lemon (or orange) juice.  Let them marinade during the previous night.
- Into a salad bowl, clean and serve the salads bag (or the lettuce) as a base.
- Dry the chicken and mushrooms pieces, and reserve them.
- Put into the frying pan, with a little olive oil, the chicken pieces.  Fry the chicken pieces until they were well toasted and the liquid were evaporated. Share them out into the salad bowl .
- Share the mushroom pieces out over the salad bowl, in an ornamental way.
- Share the toasted bread pieces out over the salad bowl.
- Taking advantadge of the frying pan heat, toast the almond pieces and share them out over the salad bowl
- Prepare the lemon (or orange) sauce, in the way as we prepare in this recipe.
- Dress the salad with the lemon (or orange) sauce.
- Serve it.

Salad of strawberries with prawns marinaded into honey and lemon

INGREDIENTS (2 persns):
- 15-20 prawns peeled (or langostines).
- 8-10 strawberries.
- 2 bananas.
- A handful of peeled and laminated almonds.
- Lettuce or a salads bag.

For marinade the prawns and for the dressing:
- Two honey spoonfuls.
- A lemon juice spoonful.

PREPARACIÓN:
- Clean up the prawns (or langostines) and put them into a bowl.  Cover it with the two honey spoonfuls and the lemon juice spoonful, and let it almost two hours before the salad preparation.
- Into a bowl, clean and serve the salads bag (or the lettuce) as a base.
- Pick up the bananas into slices and save them.
- Pick up the strawberries in four parts and save them.
- Drain the marinated prawns (or langostines), saving the remaining liquid from the marinade, and put them into the frying pan with a little olive oil.  Taking into account that the prawns are marinades, during the sauté the prawns let some little liquid over the frying pan.  Drain the prawns and share them out over the salad bowl, saving the frying pan liquid.
- Using the saved liquid, and taking advantadge of the frying pan heat, put into it the banana slices absorving the liquid saved.  The slices will adquire a golden colour and they will be a little soften.  Share out into the salad bowl, in an ornamental way.
- At last, without quiting the frying pan from the barner, toast the almonds.  Share them out into the salad bowl.
- Put in the remaining marinade liquid over the salad, as a dressing.
- Serve it.

Strawberries with apples salad

INGREDIENTS (2 people):
- 2 apples.
- 6-8 strawberries.
- Sunflower seeds toasted and peeled.
- Lettuce or a salads bag.

For the dressing:
- A olive oil spoonful.
- 2 modena vinegar spoonfuls.
- 3 honey spoonfuls.
- A little white pepper.

PREPARATION:
- Peel and pick up the apples into little pieces.
- Clean and pick up the strawberries in four parts.
- Into a bowl, we serve the salads bag (or the lettuce picked) and, over this basis, serve the apples pieces, the strawberries and adds the sunflower seeds toasted and peeled.
- For the dressing, mix into a deep bowl the oil, the honey, the modena vinegar and the pepper.  Remove.
- Dress the salad.
- Serve it.

NOTES:
- We can use cherries instead of strawberries too.
- We can use pears instead of apples too.
- Talking about the sunflower seeds, i prove this salad with toasted almond too with a similar result.

Pasta and salmon salad with pistachios

INGREDIENTS (2 people):
- 200 grs. of coloured pasta (typical for salads).
- 150 grs. of pink salmon.
- 100 grs of prawns.
- Two tomatoes.
- A handful of peeled pistachios.

For the dressing:
- Oil.
- Modena vinegar.
- Vinegar (to marinade the salmon).

PREPARATION:
- Pick up the salmon into little pieces and put them into a bowl.  Cover the salmon with vinegar and let it during the night before.
- Boil the pasta to be firm.
- Once the pasta is boiled, drain it and put it into the salad bowl.
- Pick up the tomatoes and add it over the pasta.
- Drain the marinaded salmon pieces and add into the bowl.
- Put into a frying pan with a little oil the prawns and then, put them into the bowl.
- Add the pistachios.
- For the dressing, a little oil and a little modena vinegar and stir.
- Serve it.

Strawberrys salad with seafood

INGREDIENTS:
- A salmon piece. Roughly, 100 gr
- A dozen of prawns
- 10 strawberrys
- 100 gr. of raisins
- A couple of goat's cheese slices
- Lettuce or a little portion of a salads bag

For the dressing:
- Two olive oil soap spoon
- Two honey soap spoon
- Four vinegar soap spoon
- Two cardamom seeds

PREPARATION:
- Cut the salmon in little pieces and let it and marinade it in vinegar during the previous night.
- Clean and sauté the prawns into a frying pan.
- Clean and cut the strawberrys in four.
- Into a bowl, serve the salads bag (or the lettuce cutted) and over this, serve the marinade salmon, the sautéed prawns, the rainsins and the goat's cheese.
- For the dressing, mix into a bowl the olive oil, the honey, the vinegar and the cardamom seeds smashed.  We stir it.
- Put the dressing in then main bowl, stiring.
- Over the final result, we share de strawberrys, in a ornamental way.

NOTES:
- We can prepare it replacing strawberries with cherries.

 

 

Strawberries with iberian ham salad

And we are already in the strawberry week.  Now, we have to prepare a simple salad with strawberries and ham.

INGREDIENTS:
- Lettuce or a salads bag.
- A tomatoe.
- 2 or 3 ham slices.
- Roughly ten strawberries.  It's a question of taste.
- 2 or 3 pieces of goat cheese.
- 10-15 raisins.

For the dressing:
- Apple vinegar.
- Olive oil.

PREPARATION:
- Put the lettuce (or the salads bag) well washed as the base into the salad bowl.
- Cut the tomatoe and spread over the lettuce.
- Spread the raisins over the recipient.
- Over all, put the ham slices.
- Cut into little pieces the goat cheese and spread over the recipient.
- Pick the strawberries up into four pieces, and spread over the recipient.
- For the dressing, we spread a little oil over the recipient, and then, a little apple vinegar.
- Serve it.

Strawberrys with melted brie cheese salad

A very simple and light salad, perfect to accomplish with, in example, croquettes, a steak fillet, ...I hope you like this...

INGREDIENTS:
- Lettuce or a salads bag.
- A tomatoe.
- Roughly ten strawberries.  It's a question of taste.
- 10-15 raisins.
- Brie Cheese.

For the dressing:
- Apple vinegar.
- Olive oil.

PREPARATION:
- Put the lettuce (or the salads bag) well washed as the base into the salad bowl.
- Cut the tomatoe and spread over the lettuce.
- Spread the raisins over the recipient.
- Pick the strawberries up into four pieces, and spread over the recipient.
- For the dressing, we spread a little oil over the recipient, and then, a little apple vinegar.
- In the other hand, cut the brie-cheese into pieces and put into the frying pan until the cheese pieces look toasted.
- Spread the toasted pieces of cheese over the recipient, and remove it over the salad.
- Serve it.

NOTES:
- We can use cherries instead of the strawberries.

Dry-tomatoes salad

Well, talking about the dry-tomatoes, here i put a simple dish to use them.  I hope you like it.

INGREDIENTS (2 persons):
- 4 or 5 dry-tomatoes previously rehydrated.
- A couple of fresh tomatoes.
- A jar of olives without seed.
- 100 grs. of (i recommend coloured pasta and bows).
- Grated cheese.
- Red vinegar.
- Olive oil.
- A clove of garlic.

PREPARATION:
- Once the dry-tomatoes are rehydrated (i explained this in my last post), macerate them into olive oil with an entire clove of garlic, during almost three hours (i used to let the entire night before).
- Boil the pasta.  Serve the pasta into a bowl.
- Pick up the tomatoe, the olives and put them into the bowl where previouly we served the pasta.
- Take off the dry tomatoes, drain them from the oil.  Put them into an independient bowl with a little vinegar and beat them til we have a paste of them.
- Share out the dry-tomate paste over the main recipient.
- Finally, we add a little vinegar and the grated cheese to taste.

Chicken salad with strawberries

Well, we're in the strawberries week.  I hope you like this new recipe, using chicken. 

INGREDIENTS:

- A chicken breast.
- About 10 strawberries.
- An avocado.
- Lettuce or a salads bag.
- 2 or 3 pealed nuts.

For the dressing:
- A greek yoghurt.
- White pepper.
- 3 or 4 honey spoonfuls.
- 2 mayonnaise spoonfuls.

PREPARATION:
- Put the lettuce (or the salads bag) well washed as the bottom of the salad bowl.
- Put into the frying pan the chicken breast until it was done and then, pick it up in little pieces.
- Take advantage of the heat of the frying pan, put the pealed nuts until they were well toasted (not so much).
- Peel and pick the avocato up into little pieces.
- Put the chicken, avocato pieces and nuts over the salad base of the point one.
- Now, we prepare the dressing.  Mix the yoghurt, the honey and the mayonnaise into a bowl, and then put a little white pepper.
- Dress the salad.
- Finally, pick the strawberries up and share them out over the salad in an ornamental way.