Yet Again Haloumi saves the day - Magician Ingredient part 1

Butter bean and Haloumi Salad

Honestly, Haloumi cheese is the best fridge food ever! It has a great shelf life, and can turn an ordinary meal into something rather more special.  I would rate it with avocados as a "magician ingredient" to do such a thing!

This salad is terribly easy, using storecupboard ingredients and a few fresh salad items

What you need....

1 x 300g can butterbeans, drained and rinsed

2 x tomatoes, chopped or sliced

2 handfuls of fresh spinach leaves, rinsed and dried

1 red pepper, sliced thinly

25g fresh coriander, chopped

25g pitted black olives

Dressing, as desired

1 pack Haloumi cheese, sliced thickly into 8

How to...

Mix all the ingredients, except the cheese into a bowl, and toss with dressing
Dry fry the slices of Haloumi in a frying pan, over medium hot heat, on both sides until golden brown.
serve on top of the prepared salad
Delicious!



Windowsill of hope.. part 2

The basil in the mug is still going strong...pinched out regularly for a wee zing with tomatoes, the salad leaves just peeping through were used - when fully grown - in a super salad last week.
                              Chillis were not for me!
The window sill of hope is still going strong, with regular crop rotation, and now contains a fine specimen of red basil grown by Bella, from Eden Project seed.  Her pot of red basil won first prize for the Category "Culinary Herb" at the Melrose show 10th Sept. So proud!

Potato.....

Home grown chives adorn this potato salad.....

I combined chunks of cooked potato stirred into light mayonnaise and a spoonful of creme fraiche, with red onions adding a zing of flavour - they have to be very very thinly sliced.
Potato salad is my downfall!

Makes me think of summer....