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Flower salad

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For a beautiful salad follow these 3 steps.

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Summer salad

1. Mix the following ingredients in quantities suited to your taste buds.

  • Butter lettuce – ripped into bite size pieces
  • Lamb’s lettuce
  • Spring onions
  • Mixed colors tomatoes in chunks
  • Blue cheese in cubes

2. Dress with olive oil and fresh lemon juice

3. Garnish with freshly picked viola’s.

Be careful to use viola’s from plants you grew yourself, or make sure that you know how the plants were cultivated. Growers may use pesticides or fertilizers not fit for human consumption.

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Read more about edible flowers here.

Dutch Ceasar Salad

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My mother used to make lovely salads with endives. I grew to love this bitter leaf. I have found it is the perfect ceasar salad leaf. You can substitute with your own favorite crunchy leaves.

Old gouda cheese is a good strong old and hardy cheese to replace Parmesan in this recipe.

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Dutch Ceasar Salad

  • Dressing (for multiple salads):
    • 1 tbsp mayonaise
    • 1 tsp mustard
    • 50 ml butter milk
    • 1 pinch of dried chili
    • 1 tbsp lemon juice
    • 1 tbsp olive oil
    • 1 tsp thyme
    • 1 tsp oregano
    • 1 tsp salt
    • 1 tsp pepper
    • 1 cruched garlic clove
  • half a bunch of endives
  • 150 grams of grated old Gouda
  • 1 crouton recipe

Mix all the ingredients for the dressing in a jar. Shake the jar to combine the ingredients. You can make this dressing up to 4 days in advance and keep the dressing in the fridge in a jar or container. Preferably you let the dressing stand for at least 30 mins to let the flavors come together.

Clean your endives. Slives the leaves into chunky pieces.

Mix your ingredients at the last moment for a crunchy salad. Use the amount of dressing you prefer, I like a thin coating on my leaves.

Quick and easy garlic croutons

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Anyone can make croutons. It is a quick and easy way to liven up a salad or soup and a good way to get rid of old bread. You can use any bread you like to eat. We like whole wheat, but white bread or sour dough is yummy too.

You can also freeze bread slices and take these out whenever you need to make croutons.

Croutons

Garlic croutons (for 4 servings of salad) 

  • 2 slices of bread
  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • salt & pepper

Brush your bread with olive oil on both sides. Toast the slices in your regular toaster until golden and crispy.

Slice your garlic in half length ways. Rub the toast with the garlic slices on each side. Generously season the toast on each side.

Let your garlic toast cool slightly. Slice your toast into cubes in your favorite crouton size.