Avocado Salad with Zingy Lemon Dressing

For now though, all plums aside, lets talk about salads! Salads are wonderful, are they not? Fresh crispy and delicious, they make a wonderful accompaniments to almost all dishes, from grilled chickens, meats and veg to lasagnes and rice dishes. They can also be a whole meal of their own, with shredded grilled chicken pieces, chunks of tomato, pasta, and crunchy croutons, flavoured with a zingy dressing. This salad, however, is a personal (and family) favourite, and can be eaten as a side with almost anything (try it with tuna jacket potatoes!), although it makes a perfectly filling and healthy meal with fresh crusty bread. So here it is, give it a try, you'll be hooked!

AVOCADO SALAD WITH ZINGY LEMON DRESSING:
The avocados go wonderfully with the cheese. Using only slightly ripe avocados is preferred, although you can make do with ripe. Although it can be missed out, I strongly recommend adding the basil, as it makes it tasted fresher and altogether more delicious.

So incredibly healthy, is it not?

2 fresh Avocados, peeled and cubed
1 large Tomato, cubed
1/2 Cucumber, cut into medium sized cubes.
1/2 head Lettuce, sliced
50g Cheese, cut into cubes
Handful of fresh, rinsed Basil leaves, shredded.

FOR THE DRESSING:
2tbsp olive oil.
Juice of half lemon
2tsp sugar
1tsp salt
Pepper to taste.

METHOD:

1. Toss all the ingredients of the salad together.
2. To make the dressing, whisk all the ingredients together, then drizzle over the salad.
3. Serve as a side to a main meal, or with crusty bread for a quick and satisfying meal.

Salad for breakfast? Whyever not?

NB: This will serve approximately seven people as a side. To make a lesser quantity, simply reduce the amounts.

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Food is a major part of everyday life. From the moment we wake, 'till we go to sleep, we find ourselves thinking about it, viewing it, nibbling it or smelling it. Breakfasts of hot crunchy toast with salted butter and sweet strawberry jam, eggs, steaming porridge with swirls of maple, or crunchy muesli with refreshingly cold milk, to fragrant and satisfying lunches and dinners of meat, rice, vegetables or fish, to evening cuppas, not forgetting the various snacks and sweet treats we nibble during the day... food is the one thing all stop for, taking breaks from the dizzying speed of life to ingest something that sustains us and keeps us going until the next mealtime.
Food is my passion. Flavours are my life. The wonderful sweet savoury warmth to the rich and spicy, the sharp tangy flavours, and the bitter notes that are the baseline of everything we dream, crave, smell, touch, ingest... this blog is aiming to be a collection of records of experiments in the fields of baking and cooking, as well as an assortment of recipes, some dreamt up by me, tried and tested and proved successful, to others that are family favourites, or passed down through generations, valuable, and as deliciously satisfying as they were the first time they were made, on the open fire cooking pits in the dusty back gardens of Africa, or the noisy crowded streets of India, carried through time and space to finally land in our hands and cooking pots, ready and waiting to be savoured.