Tag: Olive oil
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Three carrot salads!
There are any number of ways to make a big bowl of juicy grated carrots into a brilliant salad simply by adjusting the combination of oil and vinegar or lemon juice-based dressings, or by adding in chopped herbs, a few salted peanuts or seeds such as poppy and sesame. These are a few of my…
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Fresh orange and black olive salad/relish
I usually serve apricot chutney with my carved cold ham at Christmas but I didn’t have time this year. So, I made this sweet and sour fresh salad/relish with sweet oranges, black olives and red onion with a sweet and salty dressing instead. It was delicious and would work equally well with a Middle Eastern…
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Pigeon Cottage potato salad
I make potato salad all year round, depending on what potatoes are in season. You need firm waxy varieties that don’t disintegrate when cooked such as baby new potatoes, Anya, Ratte, Pink Fir Apple or Charlotte. I sometimes make potato salad with a mayonnaise and whole grain mustard dressing with finely chopped chives or spring…
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