very kind of you to offer. Do you have any ideas for imaginative salads? ie more interesting than my usual combination:
wash & cut lettuce
sliced onion
radishes
sliced mozarella
sliced tomatoes
olive oil, italian wine-vinegar
pepper & basil
and carrots
(...what else do I throw in there??)
with beer
cheers!
Purely my perspective, but less may well be more in this case. Since there's clearly an Italian theme here, these ingredients would never end up in the same dish, so I would combine them more traditionally, bearing in mind that such traditions rarely evolve for no reason. To start with tomatoes, I hope you're in a place where you can find wonderful ones-if so slice them and sprinkle with salt and your best oil, or add slices of mozzarella , oil, salt and basil leaves, pepper optional, or layer slices of tomato and onion, unless you can find beautiful sweet ones it's better o soak them in water for a while first. In the Italian tradition vinegar is never used with tomatoes, and they are right. Lettuce, onion, tomato and grated carrot make a good salad-with a light hand toss first with salt, then add oil,mix, then add vinegar. Radishes at a pinch, but mozzarella certainly shouldn't go into the same place as carrots. Radis au beurre is old-fashioned and delicious with great ingredients, Mozzarella delicious dressed only with oil, salt and pepper, and grated carrot alone makes a delicious salad, a suggestion of garlic being no bad thing here, or else a cream, lemon and mustard dressing.
Probably the opposite of imaginative, I know!
