Salad Atomica
From elgourmand 13 years ago
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- Serves ?
I sometimes get a little crazy and fix a beautiful, complex meal. Now, our good friend Keni, and some others, doe this three or four times a week but I’m getting old & lazy. I must confess that I can and do exist a long time, quite happily, on creative but simple fair. Read more Some will say “hay, this ain’t great cooking”. Okay, it ain’t great cooking. This site is about exchanging ideas and not just recipes. So, I toss an idea, or six, your way. This is an idea tree. Please take the madness ball and run like a startled gazelle with it. A care free abandon and spendthrift attitude are essential here. My ingredient selection is somewhat limited here in Samoa but most of you can go hog wild and I strongly urge you to do so. As this dish is for as many folks as you want to feed, the amount of any ingredient is not given. As much as you want or not any amount at all so you figure it. You can do this without including any of the ingredients you have to cook and I do this often. There is a whacking great list of ingredients here and you are not expected to use them all in one go. Pick the ones that you like for today and then do some others for the next go. When I say braised small medallions of?? I mean, cubed at 2” per side, and braised over an open BBQ type fire until just barely done. Above all, enjoy the prep and the feed. RJ See less
Ingredients
- • salami, try: salami Felino, Finocchiona, Napolitano, Soppressata or Cacciatore or a bit of each. shopping list
- • bacon bits or small pieces of kielbasa or other such flavourful sausage. shopping list
- • Shaved smoked ham. shopping list
- • olives, basic lack or Kalamata type, Red, pink, green or brown. shopping list
- • artichokes, fresh, in a jar or whatever. I like fresh. shopping list
- • mushrooms, mushrooms, mushrooms. Puffballs, Morels, oyster, button, straw, Porto Bella, Shitake, etc. shopping list
- • tomatoes, please use vine ripened. shopping list
- • Fresh Mug bean or alfalfa sprouts. shopping list
- • peppers, bell, Anaheim, whatever suits. shopping list
- • Fresh melon, cantaloupe, honey dew, etc. shopping list
- • asparagus tips. Again, fresh is best but any kind in a pinch; or use fresh spinach. shopping list
- • cheese. Take your pick according to your taste. Different taste in cheese really changes the whole salad. shopping list
- • Cooked beetroot. Fresh is best but canned will do. Drain well. shopping list
- • Baby (miniature) corn cobs; well drained. shopping list
- • olive oil. I use the old fashioned kind to get more flavour. shopping list
- • Some good wine vinegar shopping list
- • smoked salmon. If you can’t get good smoked salmon don’t use any. shopping list
- • Braised small medallions of spiced beef, lamb, pork, fowl, alligator, etc. Dice into 2” by 2” cubes. Take your pick or do two or three kinds and let your table mates choose. Cook to taste, cool before serving. shopping list
- • shrimp, crab, lobster, squid, fish, etc. If it needs cooking do that and let it cool. shopping list
- • Boiled egg sliced. shopping list
- • salad dressings of your choice. shopping list
- • Seeded dates. shopping list
- • Raw cauliflower or broccoli. shopping list
- • sunflower seeds or your choice of nuts. shopping list
- • Sliced tomatoes & sliced Bell or Anaheim peppers. shopping list
- • Fresh endive or iceberg lattice. Try the tinder tips of watercress, Romaine lattice, etc. shopping list
- • Sliced Maui onion. If you can’t get Maui onions get the mildest you can find. shopping list
- • ANYTHING I FORGOT shopping list
How to make it
- 1. Select the ingredients to use in this version of the salad. See Photo
- 2. Set them out in appropriate containers in an attractive manner. See Photo
- 3. Each person builds their own salad. See Photo
- 4. Enjoy.
- Things on the side or to go with the salad:
- • Bread. Use a robust, rich Italian or French. I occasionally use Naan or Pita Bread for a change up.
- • Oysters, clams, fish roe, pate.
- • A bottle or two of decent grape stompings as a libation.
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