Roll on Summer Salads

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SummerSalad-2Came home from work last night and Mr MWCED was thinking of what to cook for dinner.   Have to say that I am one lucky woman,  a man who cooks, cooks well and cooks what I like to eat.  How much better does it get??  It was a warm evening,  the first for some days – which is a bitch when it’s meant to be summer.   Best to be the glass half full person though,  so better to take advantage when one can.   Take a look at the feast that came to the table …………………………………The lettuce salad also had tomatoes, cucumber, garlic beans and grated roasted beetroot.  Topped with olive oil and home-made raspberry vinegar.   That would have been enough, especially with the homemade babaps (baby baps – my name for them anyway).  BUT, we also had the most delicious panko crumbed zucchini and sesame soy carrots.    Even better,  was that the lettuce, beans, zucchini were just picked out of the garden.  Oh, and I didn’t mention the – that afternoon – freshly made basil and pine-nut pesto – which was DeliCious on the zucchini.   Wow,  it really doesn’t get better than that!  I don’t think you even need a recipe for this,  just look and be inspired!

Blue beginnings…

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While I toasted the eve of the new year with favorite bubbles, starting with Bolly at Micro Bar www.microbar.co.nz as what honest woman could resist it being on special?and finishing with a glass or two of Veuve,  the first drink of 2014 was a small cocktail.   This festive season I’ve had an urge for blue, so out came a bottle of Blue Curcacao and Google helped with a few recipes.  I think my favorite has been a Baby Blue with a touch of Grenadine, though last night was an April’s Violet.

P1020485This is a simple little number,  1-1/2 oz of gin, 2 tsp Blue Curacao and 3 drops of Grenadine.  I put it over crushed ice.  Just a little too strong for me,  I think I prefer the fruit juice version of Baby Blue, which is 1oz Vodka, 1oz Blue Curacao, 3oz Pineapple Juice and dash of Grenadine Syrup.  Mmmmmm,   difficult to stop at one, so of course I didn’t.