Salad

[Uncle D]

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Just for our UK members

[Mike1940]

Uncle D .....Am I allowed to CANCEL YOU?

[Firefly]

Uncle D, I have news for you, with our weather, you would have to be mad to want salad in February!

[Uncle D]

Why, its warm indoors, isnt it?

[cyprusmax47]

Perhaps you have plenty Avocados as an alternative. This is my salad today after I had a huge village salad yesterday at the fish tavern....

Avocado, cut small, on top apple cider vinegar, pepper, curcuma, garlic, shrimps, roe cream.



Max

[Firefly]

Max

I have to say that it does look good.

Uncle D

Yes it is, but you have to go out to buy the salad.

[Devil]

Talking of shrimps, my help made a shrimp and potato pie last night. The pie was delicious, except for the shrimps which looked good but completely without flavour. Of course, they were frozen and I find that all frozen fish seems tasteless these days. I put this down to the fact that the fish is frozen on the trawlers, within minutes of being howked out of the sea. When I was a kid, fish tasted like fish, probably because it was three days old before it reached the fishmonger's slab and had time to mature.

[jagwheels]

I agree that food looks tasty David but we are all on a diet of gruel over here But seriously the media are constantly reporting a shortage of food in the UK & all sorts of doom & gloom & a lot of it is not true however we do miss your climate & I certainly miss tasty tomatoes, halloumi, olives & grapes just to mention a few

[cyprusmax47]

I agree that food looks tasty however we do miss your climate & I certainly miss tasty tomatoes, halloumi, olives & grapes just to mention a few

Well, tasty tomatoes, halloumi, olives we have all the time here in CY, but 26-27c, for the last day of February, forecast for tomorrow at Paphos are very welcome not only for me.... air-con heating will have a break, maybe for good this year? nobody knows....

Max

[Susanna]

My husband went shopping in our local Asda this morning. He said that there was plenty of salad stuff available. Don’t believe everything the media would have you believe.

[Firefly]

Same here, went to a local Aldi, plenty of salad items, plus other fruit and vegetables.

Not that I bought salad, it's freezing here. Just the thought of it makes me shiver.

[Uncle D]

If it's any consolation we are finding it hard to get a decent turnip

[jeba]

Not sure whether I should tell my recipe for salad dressing because it contains ingredients you can´t buy in Cyprus ("Salat-fix", a bag of condiments you get at each German supermarket). Anyway: I´ll dissolve 1 bag of Salat-fix in about 30 ml of water, add about 150g of sheep yoghourt, mustard, balsamic vinegar and about 100 g of feta cheese as well as a few caraway seeds, garlic and onion in a blender and add olive oil.

[jagwheels]

If it's any consolation we are finding it hard to get a decent turnip

That must be a bummer if you are Cornish. Although my wife isn't she has mastered this art & makes them every week

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[Firefly]

Norv, they look absolutely delicious, she should market them.

[Devil]

They look good but, hey, this country uses metric W&M, in preference to apothecarys' drams!

[Uncle D]

They're the best pasties that I've ever seen, Jag

[jagwheels]

Thank you David & in answer to Devil's response where he recently said on another topic "As a traditional stick-in-the-mud" I also stick to what I am comfortable with