Lucy's Friendly Foods

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Roasted tomato and shallot salad

Roasted tomato and shallot salad

This is just the thing when your tomatoes are not quite ripe, or even a little past their best but you really fancy a delicious tomato salad.

Cucumber and Pea Salad

Cucumber and Pea Salad

I’m not sure about you, but my children struggle with composed salads – they’re fine with lettuce, cucumber etc.

Red, Gold and Green Rice Salad

Red, Gold and Green Rice Salad

My packed lunch/picnic struggle continues.

Brilliant barbecue sauce

Brilliant barbecue sauce

The weather has been glorious (never a given in the UK, even in the summer!) – perfect for picnics and barbecues.

Slow roast tomato and gnocchi salad

Slow roast tomato and gnocchi salad

I’m not sure where the idea came from but I figured why not make a salad out of gnocchi.

3 Bean Salad

3 Bean Salad

3 or 4,5,6 – whatever number of bean varieties you like! In my opinion bean salads benefit from either simplicity or variety and this version wins on the variety front.

Zesty chickpea salad

Zesty chickpea salad

What do you think of chickpeas (are they called garbanzo beans in the USA)? I’m a bit unsure – they’re great whizzed up, but so often I find them dry and pasty.

Mediterranean Salad

Mediterranean Salad

  I guess you could say this is a combination of a salade Nicoise and a Greek salad – featuring the punchy flavours of olives, roasted peppers and basil mixed with the fresh vibrancy of …

Fiery beetroot salad

Fiery beetroot salad

Why buy a ready-made salad pot when this one tastes far better, can be whipped up in moments and you have the satisfaction of homemade food? Beetroot can certainly divide opinion – when I was…

Mexican Rice and Beans Salad

Mexican Rice and Beans Salad

The sun is shining and it’s starting to feel a little warmer – yippee! After the long dark, cold months there suddenly light and colour, oh what joy! I was intending on cooking another …

English spring garden salad

English spring garden salad

  You know that phrase used in American burger restaurants ‘take a walk through the garden’? Well, this is the elegant, English equivalent re-imagined onto your plate.

Tapenade couscous salad

Tapenade couscous salad

I’ve had a recent hankering for all things olive – I developed a taste for olives only in my mid-twenties and it was definitely a slow burner – starting off with eating one off a …

Mustardy potato and green bean salad

Mustardy potato and green bean salad

It’s still Jersey Royal season, and I’m determined to use this wonderful seasonal produce as much as possible, while it’s still at its best.

Vegetarian Paella Salad

Vegetarian Paella Salad

Do you match wine? I’m no wine expert, although I do certainly enjoy a nice chilled glass of white or rose, but I’ve recently started to notice how some wines compliment and some wines …

Caprese Tomato Pasta Salad

Caprese Tomato Pasta Salad

We seem to live off salad in the summer – to me there is not much more delightful than an array of stunning salads to dive into on a warm sunny day.

Rainbow Salad Platter

Rainbow Salad Platter

Do you struggle to get your children to eat salad? It used to be a real problem for us – while I could easily live off salad, my children weren’t keen; other than happily wolfing down b…

Cannellini bean and olive salad

Cannellini bean and olive salad

As you might imagine we have a lot of beans being used in this household at the moment – I’ve got to get the chickpea/bean water from somewhere for all the meringue based recipes! This …

‘Sunday roast’ salad with mint sauce vinaigrette

‘Sunday roast’ salad with mint sauce vinaigrette

Sometime you just really fancy a flavour combination, and the other day I really hankered after a flavour I haven’t had for many years – roast potatoes with mint sauce.

Antipasti Jewelled Couscous

Antipasti Jewelled Couscous

  Fluffy couscous salad, studded with rich antipasti and pistachios (if you can tolerate them) is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

Coronation Rice Salad

Coronation Rice Salad

I don’t know about you, but for us June and early July heralds peak picnic and barbecue season.

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