If you’re feeling a bit uninspired it’s time to branch out and try some new leaves, or even reconnect with some old favourites. And means that you don’t have to rely on the expensive packaged lettuce. It’s the easiest, quickest way to get leaves clean and most importantly dry (see point ii). ![]() I highly recommend investing in a salad spinner, even though there are more and more prewashed leaves on the market. You’ve heard about oil and water not mixing right? Well if you want your tasty oil based dressing to stick to your leaves, you need to make sure they’re nice and dry which brings me to point number (iii). While the number of options of prewashed packaged salad leaves is ever expanding, not everything that is in a packet has been washed so make sure you read the label. With all that surface area there’s plenty of space for dirt or even worse chemical residue which means it’s important to wash your leaves and herbs. So if you have any burning salad questions, or suggestions please share them in the comments and lets discover the answers together. Part 5: stonesoup all time favourite salads Which gave me the bright idea to have a stonesoup salad extravganza with a weekly salad post in which is going to look something like this: ![]() It got me thinking about how much I love salad. It’s so good being reminded of old favourites especially by dear old friends. ![]() And you have to love house guests that make you a really lovely salad and when you compliment them on the dressing, thry credit it back to you. You have to love house guests that take over your kitchen. And I was even luckier because when I came home from a tough first day back in the office in 6 weeks, submitting my resignation, they had a celebratory bottle of Sparkling wine chilled and dinner all under control. Over New Years I was lucky enough to have some fabulous house guests from Melbourne for a couple of days: my gorgeous mate Missy Helgs and her beau ‘The Jackyl’.
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