Thursday, May 27, 2010

Salad Time

After just one blisteringly hot day I am already afeared of the summer. I spend a good portion of the day in the basement where it's perfectly cool. This is when dinner turns to easier stuff, which I'm always glad for. I love salads that keep in the fridge for a night when doing anything is ten times harder due to the heat. And I especially love things that use up what we have, like a jar of carrot daikon pickle, which I drained and tossed with a head of shredded purple cabbage. Along with some olive oil, salt and pepper it turned into a delightful summer slaw that took a few minutes to prepare.

Last week we ventured out to the Rhinebeck Farmer's Market, and Steve was smitten with some wild turkey and partridge eggs. He's forever looking for the perfect egg for the perfect egg sandwich. Even though he thinks he found it in the duck egg, he's still open to other eggs. He'd decided that the partridge egg makes a good english muffin egg sandwich, because of it's size. The yolk to white ratio is high, too, which is a plus. But then we had a real excess of eggs so I made some fancy curried egg salad. I sort of went along with this recipe from 101 Cookbooks. I must say I was a little iffy on the apple, but did it anyway. Well, personally, I should have stuck to my gut and left them out. I'm just not on the egg/apple train. Vidalia onions in a chunky dice was just right though.

The soba noodles I tossed with some apricot chutney dressing I made with soy sauce, sesame oil, dijon, and of course, apricot chutney from the pantry. And the rest of the arugula that's bolting, wilted and chopped and folded right in. Now, all I have to make is some rhubarb-strawberry pops, and we are set for summer!


7 comments:

  1. i am always too lazy when it comes to making salads i don't now why, it sounds so perfect for the hot weather we just had. the egg photo is amazing, nice variety.

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  2. Dreaming of hot weather. I'm just hoping it stops raining and makes it up to 60 tomorrow! This late spring sucks!

    Your egg and cabbage salads sound yummy!

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  3. innBrooklyn - It's hit or miss really, but I find it's so helpful to have food made. Thanks on the photo--I loved your expose on the ice cream shoot. No wonder your photos are so great!

    Annette - I can't believe the rain you are getting! Ugh! They were good and simple. Thanks!

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  4. I'd have to agree with you on eggs with apple... Apple in chicken salad are fine by me tho!

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  5. Rebecca - Yes, totally in chicken salad. That's why I thought to try it. But it didn't work for me!

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  6. I've never had a wild turkey egg, what is it like? I have to find one! I have to!

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  7. Georgia - They have them up until July at Quattro's Game Farm (Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County), along with the partridge eggs. It's a lot like a chicken egg, but huge!

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