salad days

[ChrisGreaves]

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Summer will soon be here. Week before last we had a frost warning; honest!

This week it feels too hot to walk down the street.

Toronto.

(sigh!)

So I bought four beefsteak tomatoes, some spring onions. I already had ginger root in stock for my endless batch of ginger cakes.

Rinse the lot.

Chop the tomato into the thinnest slices you can. I get this done by using a full-of-awe sharp knife. My carpentry teacher Mr. Hewison taught me back in 1957 “Hold Tightly; Press Lightly”. In other words, ‘stay in control”, and this is best achieved with an awfully sharp knife.
Toss the slivers of tomato into an ice-cream bowl.
Chop/dice into 1 millimetre rings about one inch off the top of the spring onions.
Toss them over the tomato slivers.
Grate about one inch off the end of a ginger root.
Toss the gratings over the green and red slivers.

That’s the stage I’m at in the photo above.

I have a rubbing-alcohol bottle rinsed out and re-charged with a mixture of vegetable oil and vinegar.

Drizzle about a tablespoon of this mixture over the salad.
Toss the salad lightly with a fork.
Settle yourself down on the couch with “The Chairs are Where the People Go”.

Yummy.

P.S. If you find it too hot to trot out for ginger root, try grated cheese, but I’m telling you – it’s nowhere near as good as grated ginger root.

(signed) “Cheesy Lover” of Toronto.

[Rudi]

Looks appetizing, BUT where is the cucumber and olives???

[DaveA]

Also missing the radish's, lettuce and even some protein such as tuna, smoked salmon, ham chicken and etc.
Make a meal of it.

[John Gray]

So much better to toss the whole thing into the food recycling box, and ring up for a takeaway Chinese!
Your salad days are over...

[ChrisGreaves]

Looks appetizing, BUT where is the cucumber and olives???

Where they belong: In the supermarket.
I refuse to pay to lug home what is essntially water; I can get water out of my tap ...

[ChrisGreaves]

Also missing the radish's, lettuce and even some protein such as tuna, smoked salmon, ham chicken and etc.
Make a meal of it.

Re radish, lettuce: Please see "lug home" above.
Re tuna: in a tin in my emergency-rations box.
Smoked Salmon: I'll be getting some in as soon as I have paid off my trip to Melun later this year.
Ham Chicken: The last thing this Lounge needs is a stand-up comedian waiting with wings in the wings to "wing it" once it makes its entrée.
HTH

[ChrisGreaves]

So much better to toss the whole thing into the food recycling box, and ring up for a takeaway Chinese!.

I just knew that there was a ham chicken waiting in the wings ...

[John Gray]

What is a 'ham chicken'?

[ChrisGreaves]

What is a 'ham chicken'?

DaveA introduced the concept in an earlier post in this thread.

[DaveA]

Opps, I dropped the coma, to the corner I go!

Edit:
Double "oops"
then I dropped the second "m"

I better really head for the hills and hide out for a few days.

[John Gray]

More likely you were in a coma?