Salade composée

That came as a complement to 2 pizzas shared between three people. The cost of it is quite ridiculous and I estimate it to be around 0.7£ although nothing was bought for the salad since everything was already in the fridge.

Pour one spoonful of vinegar in a large salad bowl. Add a teaspoon of mustard, salt, pepper, paprika and some dried herbs. Add fresh mint and basil leaves. Mix very well.
Add two spoons of olive oil and mix thoroughly.

Cut 2 tomatoes. Add in the bowl. Encounter by chance a pack of almond flakes in a cupboard and pour some in the bowl. Cut bread in small pieces and fry it in a bit of oil in a pan to create croutons.
Cut half a lettuce, add in the bowl, add the croutons, mix, Finished!

Mayonnaise au crabe

On Sunday I bought 7 medium size crabs at the Harbour for the price of £3. Worth going, especially that the fishing season is ending.

I cooked all 7 seven and put 5 in the freezer for later purposes.
I prepared a Salade chinoise (see earlier note) and in it added the crab flesh (most of it is in the legs).
In a bowl I put flour, chili, ginger and pepper. Mix in it prawns and lay them in a pan with a little little bit of oil. Fry, once ready, add a little bit of rum and wait for everything to dry out.

With the creamy parts inside the crab, I prepared a mayonnaise to eat with the prawns.

In a bowl, take the creamy bits and 2 yolks. Mix well and add seasonning. Pepper, a little bit of salt (not much because the crab is already salty). Add a teaspoon of mustard. Mix. Add oil until bit by bit until you have a mayonnaise.

Salade Libanaise

I had this salad in a lebanese restaurant several times. And yesterday evening I just wanted to do it. Not able to remember the lebanese name of that salad, I could not find the recipe and hence, was forced to improvised.


Cut a cucumber without the seeds in small cubes. Cut 3 tomatoes without the seeds in little cubes. Cut half a purple onion in small bits. Mix the whole. Add mint leaves according to your taste and the strength of their flavour. Add some parsley, salt and pepper.
Pour in the juice of two lemons and 2 dessert spoons of olive oil. Mix well.

Now, take some bread (best would be lebanese bread of course but some normal bread for toasting can be used). Cut it in cubes as well and apply pressure on each of them to make the bread denser. Try to make the cubs flat.
Then fry quickly in a bit of olive oil. Add the bread in the salad at the moment of serving.

Salade Chinoise composée à la vinaigrette Nahiz

A big salade can feed quite well a few people, be very good, tasty, spicy and good for the line. The price for that one is kind of ridiculous. I suppose, it cost around £1, maybe £1.50. Again, this is a recipe invented on the spot. The vinaigrette has a base recipe, but all the flavouring was decided from what the lettuce tasted like and what I was going to have in it.

Cut the chinese lettuce and wash it. Dry it.
In salad bowl, put one dessert spoon of vinegar, a teaspoon of mustard, salt, pepper, Espelette chilis (red dry chilis), ground ginger, oregano, curry and 2 teaspoons of honey.
Mix well.

Then had two dessert spoons of olive oil and mix very well to create an emulsion (a very interesting metastable state of matter, could do a physics lecture with a simple vinaigrette. (Aaaah, Gibbs free energy).

Cut some cheese in little cubes, add some bits of ham, an avocado cut in bits and a boiled egg per person.
Add the chinese lettuce (it has a taste of its own, very good with ginger-chili-curry-honey).

Mix, it is ready.