Category Archives: Salads

Baby tomato and roasted pepper salad with sherry vinegar dressing

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Janet Davies @pigeoncottage

The secret to this beautiful and vibrant looking salad is the colourful mix of red and yellow peppers and baby tomatoes; the sherry vinegar dressing brings out their natural sweetness. You will need… 2 x 250g packs of mixed yellow … Continue reading →

Posted in Salads, Summer recipes | Tagged baby tomatoes, extra virgin olive oil, Sainsbury's pointed peppers, Sherry vinegar, Tesco Finest baby tomatoes | Leave a comment

Chicken pilaf with pistachios and coriander

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Janet Davies @pigeoncottage

This is one of those easy, yet completely delicious ways of using leftover roasted chicken. It’s easy because because it’s an assembly job based on a few simply cooked basics and you can change it to add things you might … Continue reading →

Posted in Recipes, Salads, Summer recipes, Vegetables | Tagged basmati rice, chicken, chicken pilaf, flaked almonds, Fresh coriander, Greek yoghurt, Leftover chicken breast meat, pistachios, rice | Leave a comment

Rich tomato pearled spelt salad

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Janet Davies @pigeoncottage

I’ve recently discovered the whole Sharpham Park range of organic spelt products. The flour makes fantastic bread and their whole grain pearled spelt is excellent for soups, ‘speltottos’ and my rich tomato salad. A cross between Emmer wheat and Goats … Continue reading →

Posted in Recipes, Salads, Summer recipes, Vegetables | Tagged cherry tomatoes, Emmer wheat, nutty flavour, Olive oil, pearled spelt, red wine vinegar, Sharpham Park, spelt, spelt products, sunblush tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato salad, tomato salad recipe | Leave a comment

Lobster salad with chive dressing

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Janet Davies @pigeoncottage

Although I don’t live on the coast, I’m lucky enough to be able to buy top quality fresh seafood from the market in Bury St Edmunds from the excellent Mummery Brothers. This lovely Rick Stein lobster salad makes an indulgent … Continue reading →

Posted in Recipes, Salads, Seafood, Summer recipes | Tagged Bury St Edmunds, chive dressing, chives, fresh lobster, lobster, lobster salad, Mummery Brothers, Rick Stein, Steve's Leaves | Leave a comment

Fennel and feta salad

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Janet Davies @pigeoncottage

Perfect summer salad Well, summer isn’t here exactly but it’s been good enough for BBQ weather and so that means chargrilled meat and salad. This is good ‘un! I served this with butterflied lamb marinated in olive oil, garlic and … Continue reading →