Amazing food

[resonant]

Oh, I've just eaten the sort of thing that would probably give me religion if I didn't already have it.

Last night for dinner I made a middle-eastern-style salad -- cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, minced red onion, and parsley, dressed with lemon juice, a little olive oil, salt, and pepper.

For lunch, I had a ripe avocado I needed to eat right away, and when I went looking for a lime slice to squeeze over it, I found the leftovers from last night's salad. So I mixed them all together into a dish that was about half salad and half avocado.

Man, was that ever good.

Comments

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

Avocados! YUM! ::wishes she had an avocado icon::

you're making me daydream of the avocado sitting on my kitchen counter right now....just begging to be sliced and eaten. mmmmmm!

your salad-nirvanah sounds marvelous!

my mom gave me a recipe for still-edible but not "pretty" avocados:

"Not-Quite-Guacamole Salad"

mash avocado into a chunky paste with a fork. mix with a few of tablespoons of your favorite salsa (porportion to taste--either avocado or salsa-heavy) --she and I both preferred a chunky, extra-mild salsa, but YMMV.

prepare a taco-shell bowl, fill with finely sliced iceberg lettuce, refried beans, sliced ripe olives, and shredded cheese (I just use whatever I have on hand), then dollop the avocado-salsa mixture in the middle. top with sour cream, melted cheese, whatever your pleasure. Serve.

The recipe isn't fancy, but has the virtue of being extremely flexible, according to both taste and whatever ingredients are available, and very quick and easy to make. Kids have no trouble assembling it. Oh, and they seldom notice that it's vegetarian...

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

OH yum! I'll have to give that a try. I'm usually happy with avocadoes just dressed with lime and way too much salt, but a little more trouble can really make ambrosia.

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

I want to come over to your house for lunch! *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Middle eastern? If you replace the tomatoes with slivers of apples, that's what I have as salad most of the time :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

How interesting! I can't really imagine what it would taste like with apples; I'll have to try that sometime.

To me, anything with lemon, parsley, and cucumbers pretty much says Middle Eastern. Even more so, of course, with feta cheese and black olives.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Oooooh, huh, now that is an interesting difference in perception, because of course to us that is mediterranean!

I can rec thin apple slices highly. Here we are using parsley a lot but not used to raspberry vinegar or basically any fruit in salad, but I once started with apple-onion-tuna (which might be normal to youse?) and then mixed apple in whenever *cough* well I had nothing else. Sometimes it was all green, avocado, cucumber, apple, spring onions, lettuce.

[sweetvalleyslut.livejournal.com]

Is that taboule salad?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Around here, if you go to a Lebanese restaurant and order tabouleh salad, what you get is about equal parts tabouleh (i.e. fine-grained bulgur wheat) and parsley, with the same lemon and olive oil dressing. I'm not wild about it; it's an awful lot of parsley for me. (But parsley is supposed to freshen breath, and given how much garlic is in everything else on the menu, it might be a good idea to eat it anyway.)

[aliciajd]

I made this same salad, minus the parsley, last week. Pure ambrosia!