summer salads

Oooh - I'd forgotten about this thread - thanks for all the ideas.
I'd never heard of haloumi - had to look it up.
Sliced chilli sounds a bit risque, Belgravia .

Grilled haloumi with sliced chilli to taste. Salad leaves of your choice (I like frisée and radicchio), dressing of your choice and warm buttered bread.

Coleslaw of your choice.

I love to mix corn, tomatoes, blackberries, toasted almonds and baby spinach with a lemon dill dressing.

I love salads with roast butternut or sweet potato in it, I will often use leftovers up in a salad. Teamed with cheese, either haloumi or feta, yummy. Here's one, there are plenty of ideas online:

1 x small butternut squash, sliced and roasted (skin on) with olive oil. Cool before use.
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Salad leaves of your choice
1/2 a red onion, finely sliced
Mixed seeds e.g. pumpkin, sunflower.
Cheese, either halloumi or feta.
For the dressing:
1 tbsp of natural yogurt
Squeeze of fresh lemon juice
Handful of fresh parsley, chopped
1 garlic clove, crushed
Drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

I had a lovely salad bowl amongst tapas today at lunch with DH, just rocket, tenderstem broccoli, peas, edamame beans and avocado. I am definitely going to make it at home.

The things you learn on GN! ?

oldmeg You can buy Veganaise in Sainsbury’s and other supermarkets which is a vegan mayo and very nice it is too. There are quite a few recipes for vegan mayo online tho I haven’t tried them.

Vegans won’t eat mayonnaise geri.... unless you know an egg-free recipe?

The coleslaw you buy in tubs in supermarkets is usually horrible and tastes of synthetic sweetness. I make my own version with shredded white cabbage, grated carrot, chopped radish and celery, grated apple, sunflower seeds and/ or walnuts. Dressing is lemon juice ,olive oil, cider vinegar, plain yoghurt, mayonnaise, salt, pepper mixed up. You can make it with vegan plain yoghurt and mayo for a non dairy version. It’s lovely and crunchy and goes well with jacket potato, bean burgers, just about everything. I make a huge bowl at family bbqs and it’s always popular.

I love making Waldorf Salad, goes with so many things. I can’t eat tomatoes as they make my arthritis flare up, and I love them ???

My mum use to make a salad with lettuce ( don’t remember which, I think dad use to grow a selection on the allotment and she used ), I know it had tinned oranges, chopped celery and mustard and cress on the top, but what else was in or what the dressing was, i really don’t remember. It would have been in the 70s. If anyone has any ideas I would love to know

Love rocket,watercress with those lovely small Picollo toms, chopped celery with a big dollop of fatless cottage cheese with chives and a sprinkle of chopped nuts. I can eat that for lunch every day.

I eat a lot of salad but need a few potatoes and some sort of meat, eggs or fish with it. Finish off with a sprinkle of nuts and pomegranates or dried cranberries etc.
If i dont have potatoes i have a piece of bread......green stuff on its own is never enough.

Rocket,sliced yellow pepper,chopped walnuts and sultanas.
All smothered in a mix of wholegrain mustard,olive oil and fresh lemon.
Oh and a huge helping of homemade coleslaw.
With Morrisons walnut bread.

I love salads of all descriptions, but I can't abide coleslaw. I like a bit of fruitiness in a salad, sliced strawberries, pomegranate seeds (which I've just discovered that I like) or chopped apple and peach.

Lots and lots and lots of watercress! And maybe some rocket and radishes and red pepper. No dressing. Apart from that, I hate salad like the plague.