So blame her.
See this?
It's a MASSIVE SALAD.
Yeah, I know it's too cold for salad, but I've been craving one for a while so when the sun came out briefly yesterday and the mercury rose to a scorching 14.C I took my chance.
Salad has to be the easiest thing in the world to get right, but is all too often done plain WRONG. So far as I'm concerned there are no rules to salad, except maybe:
Lettuce + cucumber + tomato ≠ salad.
So, in this instance the salad was:
2 x small sweet potato
2 x small-ish yellow courgette
1 x red pepper
1 x green pepper
1 x small onion
Some brocolli
Couple o' hand fulls of bean sprouts
Dressing.
Simple, right?
It also made a shitload so I stuck half in a tub for my lunch today. And seriously, that tub is FULL. If you don't wanna massive salad for two, steer clear of these portions.
So, peel, quarter (length ways) the sweet potato then cut that in to 1-2cm chunks and put in boiling water for a li'l while.
Peel & slice the onion, place in warm, salted water. This'll make the onion a little less mean so you won't kill any innocent doggies/kitties/hotties you may find yourself chatting to later in the evening.
Broccoli, peppers & courgette get cut up however you damn well like.
When the sweet potato is soft, remove it from the water , rinse under cold tap, then let sit in cold water for a while (unless you want it warm, which you might).
Put all the ingredients in some kinda bowl, mix it all up, add dressing (I used this one from Asda).
Serve!
I also had a nut cutlet from Sainsbury's for protein and a bit of something warm. You could just as easily toast a bunch of seeds (add soya/tamari sauce if you like) or nuts or whatever, but I didn't have any seeds or nuts lying around.
So there we go, first entry done. If this shit continues, remember: Blame Jennifer.
