TGIF! - crunchy salads for the weekend

I go through phases. Love or hate salads. At the moment, I abhore them. The last time I ate salad, two hours later I was hugging the bowl (not sure if it was 3D Avatar or food poisoning) but I can't fathom the idea of eating it yet...
AND, believe it or not, I even watched Oprah Winfrey yesterday. Well, actually, I was sitting myself down after the gym and turned on the TV and she had some kind of food show going on. So I taped it and got dinner ready and later watched it with Fredrik. Was happy we were eating vegetarian pizzas! Wow, those chicken and pig farms are absolutely revolting! Reminds me of a poem I wrote some years ago... and I was right, in the documentary, they say that the chickens can't even walk because their bones are not formed properly and they are far too heavy to support themselves... how sick is that!?


Sublime Chicken

The recipe said to use one chicken breast  
I planned to eat half and to keep the rest

But, unaware of its power to simply sublimate  
A shrunken remnant is all I ate

So this poor innocent chicken had been doped like an athlete 
Building factitious muscle till it couldn’t stand on its own two feet

And the reward for all that workout?  
The privilege to lie, fried, under my curled up snout


Haha, poor chicken! Also disturbing, was the way cows are treated. So sad! Being fed junk and being pumped with that many antibiotics, cows cannot, by any means, produce decent milk. Therefore dearest children, do your old granny sister a favour and please drink lots of milk but make sure it is organic or go for almond, rice or soya milk!

As for the meat, when I see the price of organic meat, I usually find something vegetarian to eat... so here are a few good recipes. I know there is some ham and bacon in them... but you need it for the taste... hehe!


Mrs. Falk’s Spinach Salad

For the salad:

• spinach leaf - torn
• crispy bacon – crumbled (or chop up slices of ham)
• white mushrooms - sliced
• onion (red or white) – finely chopped
• hard boiled eggs – sliced and diced

For the dressing: 

•  ¼ cup balsamic or red wine vinegar
• ½ cup oil
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• salt, pepper and sugar

Put all the ingredients for the salad in one tupperware. 
Put the ingredients for the dressing in another and shake it up (I usually make A LOT less, but follow those proportions). 
Pour the dressing over the salad, put the lid on (preferably) and shake it like a milkshake or like rotten milk to make butter.




Broccoli Bacon Salad

For the salad:

• broccoli florets
• onion – diced
• bacon – crumpled and crisp – i usually use ham cut into squares
• cucumber – peeled, seeded if you’re picky, and quartered
• shredded cheese

For the dressing:

• 4 - 6 tbsp white sugar
• ½ - ¾ cup light mayo
• 2 – 4 tbsp vinegar

Same procedure as above



 
Avocado and Chickpea Salad (for chickpea-award winners only)

• avocado – peeled and sliced
• cherry tomatoes
• black olives
• can chickpeas

Mix everything together, add little salt and pepper, the avocado gives it all the dressing it needs.




Cole Slaw

• 1 c mayonnaise 
• 3 tbsp lemon juice 
• 2 tsp sugar 
• 1 tsp salt
• 6 c shredded cabbage
• 1 c shredded carrots

Combine first four ingredients and then mix everything together.