I have to admit, despite years spent in France I have consistently been hurting the glass ceiling preventing me to join the 'slightly better than an average home cook' rangs. And that for a simple reason: my inability to make (I mean, not on a one-time-get-lucky-girl, but constantly, make), good home-made salad dressing. La vinaigrette, as the French call it.
My suffering came to the end when my friend Shal lent me a cookbook with 'the secret'. The recipe for tahini salad dressing. This was after a succulent Indian dinner at her place, a few minutes after I've asked her: "OMG, did you know that Jamie Oliver died?" (I said it because the night before, I was sitting on a plane and my seat neighbor was reading an English trash newspaper article saying something about Jamie Oliver being dead.)
Shal immediately panicked, grabbed her iPad, checked that my statement was utterly incorrect, put her iPad back down; gave me one of THOSE looks; and with a big sigh went into her (amazing, large, white, clean, hitech) kitchen, opened one of the out-of-nowhere 'invisible' drawers, and handed me Jamie's book.
I'll make it short.
A few days later, I made the most delicious, finger-licking, plate-licking, dressing of my life thanks to that book.
I became vinaigrette-savvy!
My vinaigrette is consistently delicious.
Once, two, three, five times... can't go wrong under any circumstances.
jamie oliver tahini dressing (serves salad for 4)
1 tablespoon tahini
8 tablespoons of olive oil
sea salt & freshly ground black pepper
4 tablespoons sherry or red wine vinegar (I put white balsamic)
Mix all ingredients together just before serving the salad. If you want to go lighter, replace some of the oil by water.
Oh, and here is the salad recipe, in case you really want to make someone happy...
moorish crunch salad (serves 4)
4 or 5 peeled carrots
2 crunhy eating apples
handful of radishes
1 small handful of dark or white raisins
1 handful of fresh parsley, roughly chopped
1 handful of fresh mint, roughly chopped
2 spoons of sesame seeds toasted in oven
Slice your carrots into matchsticks-sized batons.
Finely slice your radishes.
Quarter your apples, remove the cores and finely slice.
Add all of these in a bowl with the rest of the ingredients, apart from the sesame seeds, and do not forget your finger-licking freshly done tahini salad dressing! :) Toss together, carefully checking the seasoning, and serve with the sesame seeeds sprinkled over the top.
Serve straight away, eat straight away, smile straight away!
Oh! And if interested, get your copy of 'jamie's kitchen' for under £2 from amazon. This is quite an old book, so second hand copies are easily available.
My suffering came to the end when my friend Shal lent me a cookbook with 'the secret'. The recipe for tahini salad dressing. This was after a succulent Indian dinner at her place, a few minutes after I've asked her: "OMG, did you know that Jamie Oliver died?" (I said it because the night before, I was sitting on a plane and my seat neighbor was reading an English trash newspaper article saying something about Jamie Oliver being dead.)
Shal immediately panicked, grabbed her iPad, checked that my statement was utterly incorrect, put her iPad back down; gave me one of THOSE looks; and with a big sigh went into her (amazing, large, white, clean, hitech) kitchen, opened one of the out-of-nowhere 'invisible' drawers, and handed me Jamie's book.
A few days later, I made the most delicious, finger-licking, plate-licking, dressing of my life thanks to that book.
I became vinaigrette-savvy!
My vinaigrette is consistently delicious.
Once, two, three, five times... can't go wrong under any circumstances.
jamie oliver tahini dressing (serves salad for 4)
1 tablespoon tahini
8 tablespoons of olive oil
sea salt & freshly ground black pepper
4 tablespoons sherry or red wine vinegar (I put white balsamic)
Mix all ingredients together just before serving the salad. If you want to go lighter, replace some of the oil by water.
Oh, and here is the salad recipe, in case you really want to make someone happy...
moorish crunch salad (serves 4)
4 or 5 peeled carrots
2 crunhy eating apples
handful of radishes
1 small handful of dark or white raisins
1 handful of fresh parsley, roughly chopped
1 handful of fresh mint, roughly chopped
2 spoons of sesame seeds toasted in oven
Slice your carrots into matchsticks-sized batons.
Finely slice your radishes.
Quarter your apples, remove the cores and finely slice.
Add all of these in a bowl with the rest of the ingredients, apart from the sesame seeds, and do not forget your finger-licking freshly done tahini salad dressing! :) Toss together, carefully checking the seasoning, and serve with the sesame seeeds sprinkled over the top.
Serve straight away, eat straight away, smile straight away!
Oh! And if interested, get your copy of 'jamie's kitchen' for under £2 from amazon. This is quite an old book, so second hand copies are easily available.
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