Pimms, and yummy salads

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At my birthday picnic we¹ really did consume an immense amount of food and drink. The shining moments of culinary delight, however, were:

1. The Eternal Pimms. corchen had the brilliant idea of buying one of those enormous tupperware cereal canisters with the lift up pour-lids, which turned out to hold about three litres of liquid. We put ice and chopped strawberries and cucumber into it, and every time it was emptied we left the fruit in the bottom and just refilled it with more liquid. Over the course of the afternoon it had added to it: Pimms and ginger ale, white wine, gin and tonic, limes, Pimms and lemonade and gin, more wine. The fruit became more and more interesting with each incarnation.

2. SALAAAADS. FOUR yummy delicious summery salads. Potato salad with new potatoes, full-fat mayonnaise, chopped fresh chives, sea salt and black pepper! Greek salad with quartered cherry tomatoes and finely sliced feta and quartered olives and mixed leaves and basil and raw garlic and a tiny bit of garlicy vinagrette! Green salad with big soft shredded lettuce and mixed leaves and avocado and spring onions and lemon zest and sliced cucumber and lemony vinagrette! Pasta salad with fusilli and tuna steak and chopped anchovies and capers and chopped cucumber and olive oil and black pepper and full-fat mayonnaise! They were faaaabulous. Although in retrospect, the pasta salad was a little too salty and should have had fewer capers, and the green salad could have got away with a lot more avocado. The potato salad was perfect. I love potato salad so much.

This summer, in the beautiful huge tiled kitchen of our luxurious penthouse uberflat, I intend to continue to make many wonderful salads. Tell me your favourite salad recipes!

[1] "We" being libellum, corchen, lovelyoliver, strongtrousers, cantabulous, elise, the_lady_lily, medieval_bunny, feanelwa, rathenar, _nicolai_, surje, casilda, deborah_c, davefish, the_alchemist, _proserpina_, deliberateblank, fiona_kitty, robinbloke, smcv. Anyone I've forgotten?

Comments

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Oh bugger, I missed the salads of goodness! You will have to make good salads for me in the future *nods*

[libellum.livejournal.com]

did you really miss them? Maybe you just didn't see them, they lasted a long time. there were definitely some of both the leafy salads left, because I had a lot to throw away the next day!

But yes, by all means, come over to the Flat of Love and I shall make you many delightful salads :D

Good salads

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

Tomato, feta cheese, avocado, onion, fresh basil, & lemon juice

Rice, roasted aubergine, green lentils, garlic, & walnut oil.

Re: Good salads

[libellum.livejournal.com]

ooooh, they sound good. The second one especially. I want to start experimenting with rice salads. what kind of rice is best for this?

Re: Good salads

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

what kind of rice is best for this?

Something relatively fat-grained. I think I used a standard long-grain, but you definitely want to go with something closer to risotto rice than basmati.

(incidentally, I made that one by using the ingredients list off an M&S salad so you might want to go in there to a) take a look to see what their version looks like b) get inspiration for further salads)

[deborah_c]

I think your footnote is missing smcv, but I don't remember anyone else while I was there. On the other hand, my memories of Tuesday are for some reason strangely clouded...

[libellum.livejournal.com]

ah yes - I wondered if he'd been there, but I wasn't sure. I was very drunk, after all :)

but! missy! salad recipes! you don't escape that easily :P

[notintheseheels.livejournal.com]

It was a good picnic, and you looked particularly stunning.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

wow, thankyou :)

I'm really glad you turned up, it was lovely to see you. And to spend large amounts of time arguing about your breasts ... *g*

[proctalgia.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday and well done on your 'first'!

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[snowpiratess.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had such a wonderful picnic, and sorry that I was too insanely busy to come. Happy birthday!

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

Tell me your favourite salad recipes!

sentientfiction made a fantastic salad last night involving avocadoes, olives, new potatoes, yellow peppers, lettuce and feta cheese, but you'd have to ask her for the actual recipe.

[entscheidung.livejournal.com]

I've befriended you since we seem to have nine mutual friends on lj and you have delicious-sounding salads.