Tis the season for salads spiked with summer fruit.
Category: salads to rock your face
Kidney Bean & Chickpea Salad with Spiced Citrus Dressing
Marion Cotillard (photog. Mario Testino) / via my Pinterest I feel like legumes deserve an apology from me. For so long the dodgy, mass produced versions of legume salads that lurk in the corners of supermarket delis, constituted the sum total of my legume-salading experience and it put me off big time. I…
Balsamic Brown Rice Salad
Siouxsie Sioux for Dazed and Confused (1999) via Cats with Famous People Earlier this week I was lucky enough to spend three days hanging out with some of my favourite people at an awesome little bach in the sunshine and slow pace of the Queen Charlotte Sounds. It was so rejuvenating; a stunning part…
Midweek Meltdown Roasted Pumpkin & Chickpea Salad
Image via We Heart It Oh hell yes. File this one under “salads that make you go mmm”. This recipe features some of my current favourite foodthings: chickpeas, roasted pumpkin and toasted pumpkin seeds. They come together to create a substantial salad that will fill you right up and get you charging towards the…
Keen Bean Pasta Salad for One
Blue Backpiece by Stasia Burrington Keen Bean Pasta Salad for One (my photo) The sun is shining today; it’s one of those days where the air feels like spring is just around the corner. The greys and browns of winter are slowly giving way to green roots and blue skies. This is my…
Single Serve Vermicelli, Carrot & Mint Salad with Sesame-Soy Dressing
Image via Ffffound The first time I tried bean vermicelli was at my primary school in Blenheim, when we were treated to a traditional island chop suey during class one summer’s day. Food: a win, since forever. I remember loving the texture of the skinny, translucent noodles; my experiences with vermicelli from then on…
Three-Way Chickpea Carrot Salad with Fresh Lemon-Herb Dressing
Image via Ffffound | I offer this belly-rubbing recipe in lieu of the promised post about eating vegan in provincial New Zealand, which was abandoned when I realised that eating vegan well in the provinces involves exactly the same thing as eating vegan well in any NZ city: prepare to do it yourself and…
Summer Citrus Quinoa with Mango and Maple Almonds (+ Quinoa For Dummies)
Image via Pretty Things @ Tumblr Okay, okay. If any food has the air of neo-hippie about it, it’s quinoa. It took me a long while to appreciate it’s charms, put off as I was by the indefinably weird texture and beige-y down-on-the-commune smell, but with a helping hand, quinoa can be tweaked and…
Mango Salad Duet with Candied Pecans and Raspberry & Lime Vinaigrette
Via Fuck Yeah Dita @ Tumblr Shamefully, I had never experienced the joy that is mango-in-a-salad until now. Goddamn, people. I have been seriously missing out. This salad is one of those “well, bend me over and call me Nancy” life-changing events. And the pecans, dear lord, the pecans… Yes, the raspberries make the…
5 Minute Maple Cider Green Salad
By Lola Dupre This salad was our yummy-green-leaves-thing tonight, and it rocked hard. I served it on the side of a winning Lentil-Stuffed Roasted Red Capsicum and Whatever Pasta & Thick Garlic-Tomato Sauce combo. The vinaigrette is bold and tangy with a hint of sweetness. It might just be my favourite salad dressing creation…
