Veggie salad for the hot days

With summer such a high commodity in Europe, I prefer as much as I can to spend most of the hot and sunny days outdoors. Either taking short trips, either going out with the baby, my time spent indoors is significantly limited. But we also need to eat, even only once in a while. For such situations, fresh salads are there to feed your hunger.

A couple of weeks ago, I did some creative salad cooking and the result was very healthy and fit for every kind of meals: either company for pasta, or for some chicken or just as an individual healthy meal.

The preparation took around 20 minutes. It serves 3.

Ingredients:

250 brown champignons, finely chopped

250 fresh tomatoes, finely chopped

3 yellow paprika, finely chopped

1 big cucumber, finely chopped

250 gr. corn

200 gr. water creast

salt, on taste

black pepper, on taste

dried oregano, on taste

150 ml. olive oil

Directions:

Mix well all the ingredients together and let to rest in the fridge for half an hour. 

Bon Appetit!

Recipe of the week: Quinoa salad with pear, avocado and blue cheese

I continued my experiments with quinoa with an exquisite salad which combines different tastes. It has enough energy to keep you strong during the day or to finish your evening. If you have all the different ingredients, in less than 30 minutes - most precisely 25 minutes - it is ready. You can prepare it and store in the fridge for a couple of hours. Served cold is a very refreshing snack during the hot days of summer - not the German summer anyway.

Ingredients

100 gr. quinoa

200 ml. water

50 gr. butter

1/2 teaspoon salt

10 walnuts cut into little pieces

2 pears peeled and cut into little pieces

1/2 tablespoon olive oil

1/2 tablespoon lemon juice

100 gr. blue cheese

1 ripe avocado, medium size, cut into little cubes

Directions

Boil the water. Add the salt and the butter. Clean and add the quinoa and let boil for another 5 minutes.

Add the cheese when the quinoa is still warm, it will melt nicely.

Add the olive and lemon juice and mix.

Add the walnuts, pears, avocado and mix well.

Let it rest for a couple of minutes.

If this pleasant mixtures of tastes it is not enough for you, add also some cherry tomatoes. 

Bon Appetit!

Recipe of the week: Quinoa goat cheese salad

I recognize that quinoa is by far one of the least favourite foods. First and foremost, I do not understand why eat foods without taste. Second, I hate the smell of it, of wet earth. Not exactly an inviting fragrance to have your good morning boost.

The last week though, I decided to do more healthy food experiments - details coming up soon and I ended up buying a bag of quinoa. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out what I want to mix with it for feeling that I eat more than a tasteless something. 

When I am out of ideas, as usual, cheese creativity helps. Goat cheese in this specific case. I also added for flavour avocado, olive oil, salt and some butter, and cherry tomatoes too. Lessl than 30 minutes later I was happy with the results, and the salad was rich in vitamins and proteins to keep me energized for a long time after.

It serves 2. Preparation time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

100 gr. quinoa

200 gr. goat cheese

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon olive oil

50 gr. butter

1/2 ripe avocado

Clean the quinoa till the water comes up clean.

Put to boil 150 gr. water and add the salt and butter. When it boils, add the quinoa and leave it for 10 minutes.

Slice the goat cheese and the avocado. 

Wash the cherries and cut it into 4 small pieces each tomato.

Add the soaked quinoa and mix it well.

Add the olive oil.

Wait for 2-3 minutes and start eating. 

You do not need anything else for the breakfast, besides, of course, the coffee and some fresh orange juice.

Bon Appetit!

A lovely spring salat

I owe the recipe of this salad to my lovely one and only. Actually, he recommended his version that I changed and adapted according to what we had in the fridge at that moment. It's an easy and fresh recipe (ready in maximum 15 minutes) and very tasty in various combinations (including with crunchy toast)

What do you need:

1 bunch of parsley, finely chopped

2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped too/onion

4 tomatoes, very finely chopped

4 boiled eggs

250 Patros cheese

salt

Mix all of them together - with a wood spoon or with your lovely clean hands (our variant). Two persons and half can eat this in less than 10 minutes.

Time for a change.

My salad of the week

I am not a constant vegetarian, but most part of the time I prefer eating fresh vegetables and fruits. The following salad recipe is the full product of my imagination, the result was very tasty and filled my morning, lunch and evening. 

5 tomatoes, halved

2 packs of mozzarella cheese

100 gr. dried mint

250 ground salty peanuts - for grounding the coffee machine for bones helped me very much

100 gr. raisins

100 gr. sesame seeds

1 bunch of green onion, finely chopped - or 1 clove of garlic, finely chopped

100 ml. sesame oil/or usual sunflower or olive oil

You mix for 1-2 minutes the whole combination and it's ready to be served. The maximum time dedicated to this wonderful tasty work is maximum minutes. 

Bon Appetit!