Eggplant, fusilli and raw tomato salad

This was a simple meal, and pretty delicious - it all comes down to good quality ingredients.

We used some really creamy and delicious full fat ricotta, as specifed by the recipe.  Mixed together with some raw tomatoes and grilled eggplant, and I freestyled on the dressing - a little parsley pesto and some extra olive oil to thin it out.

Doesn't that combination of tomatoes and parsley positively make your mouth water?

Asparagus, Avacado and Red Pepper salad

Super simple - a salad of roasted red peppers, blanched asparagus and avacado.  The dressing was nothing special - just some oil, vinegar and seasoning.

Topped with crunchy fried onion coated chicken

Sometimes the simple meals are the best. 

Salad of grilled vegetables provencale

This was sensational - the chilli dressing plus the olive tapenade was a suprisingly wonderful combination.

 

The dressing - shake together after crushing the coriander seeds (in a mortar and pestle) and finely chopping the garlic and chilli:

2 tsp coriander seeds

1 garlic clover

1 finely chopped chilli

olive oil

red wine vinegar

salt and pepper

I added some leaves to the recipe just to make it even better!

Del Posto's Asparagus and Fried Egg Salad

G likes his fried egg sunny side up and very runny - I do not!  But it certainly looks more attractive perched on top of the salad rather than my egg that has been flipped and cooked through.

I threw in some potatoes (to make this more of a substantial meal) and left out the fennel (because I don't really like it) and served this up for dinner.