Mixed May Salad

Mixed May Salad is a salad where you just take the best of salad ingredients you can find for May such as tomato, cucumber, cress or other home sprouted greens, radish, cooked and cooled beetroot.
Wash and prepare and arrange on a salad plate or on individual plates.
Garnish the salad with slices of boiled free range eggs, fresh fruit such as slices of pears and apples.
Top off the salad with mayonnaise, oil and vinegar or natural yogurt.
Sprinkle with fresh herbs
This will have so much colour, crunch and flavour.
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Crazycupcakes

Cheese and Raw Carrot salad

This is another salad for May
Ingredients
1 lettuce washed and sliced
2 carrots peeled and grated
1 cup of your favourite cheese grated ( I would use a local Lancashire Cheese with a tasty flavour)
Mayonnaise or a dressing of olive oil and vinegar
Method
Take a salad dish and place the lettuce on to it
Top this with the carrot.
Sprinkle the salad dressing of your choice.
Add the grated cheese
serve

If you are on a diet use natural yogurt as the dressing or no oil in a French dressing.
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Crazycupcakes

May Salad with Bananas

May Salad, this is a seasonal salad
Ingredients
4 new potatoes cooked and sliced
2 bananas sliced
4 tomatoes skins removed(drop into boiling water for 30 seconds and remove skins) and sliced
10 asparagus tips cooked and cooled
Arrange all these on to a salad plate or create individual salads
Make this dressing for the salad and put on the top or into serving dish
Dressing
4 tablespoons of mayonnaise
4 tablespoons of cream
1 teaspoon of sugar
pinch of salt
2 teaspoons or tarragon vinegar ( or wine vinegar and fresh tarragon)
Method
Mix all the ingredients together
Serve with a garnish of fresh herbs
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crazycupcakes

Orange salad for May

This is a refreshing salad for May and would go well with seasonal meats such as chicken, duck, pigeon and fish
Ingredients
4 oranges skinned and and sliced across the segments
the juice of 1 lemon
olive oil 2 tablespoons
salt and pepper
chopped chives
chopped parsley
Kirsch or Curacao for a special salad
Method
Place the oranges in a serving dish
Mix the lemon juice and olive oil together and sprinkle onto the oranges
Sprinkle the fresh herbs onto the salad
Add some Kirsch or Curacao for a special salad.
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Crazycupcakes

May Salads

In the UK we are all getting involed in the latest trend to eat seasonal food. To me this is like going back to my childhood when all food was seasonal. I do prefer this as foods are then a real treat but I do like blueberries all year round ! Another thing is that our suppiers of food all year round happen to often be African countries that depend on us to increase their wealth. Food is politics?
I looked at an old book that discusses food in the UK and Europe in seasons. So in May look out for Asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, chervil, cucumbers, lettuce, new potatoes, peas, radish, rhubarb, seakale,spinach and turnips to make salads from.

Fish Salad
Ingredients
Cooked fish flaked
1 lettuce
watercress
1 apple diced
4 sticks of celery cut into small pieces
mayonnaise
tomato sauce
Method
Take any cooked fish and flake it ready for the salad.
Take a salad plate and cover it with crunchy pieces of lettuce.
Place Watercress on top of this( a super food for vitamins , minerals and iron)
Put on the diced apple and celery
Flake the fish over this
Either serve the salad dressings on top of the fish or in separate dishes.
This salad can be made in individual plates as a main meal or starter.
Serve with new potatoes for a main meal

Salad Vinegars

The nasturtian leaves could be really nice served with a dressing of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. It would make it sweeter and take out some of the peppery flavour. I would use half and half oil and vinegar plus some salt and pepper to taste, herbs could be added for a fresh flavour.
Has anyone else any suggestions on how to use these leaves in salads?
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Crazycupcakes

Pasta Salad with Tomato

I made this simple salad of cooked pasta, chopped watercress, chopped tomatoes and sliced radish. I served with a good dressing of olive oil, vinegar ans salt and pepper.