COLD SUMMER, WARM SALAD

more salad ideas...

Freezing cold mid-July.


As the east coast of the USA suffers a major heat-wave France has pulled out its Winter woolies. 
My thermometer has dropped down to 14°!


Actually feel more like a plate of steaming boeuf bourguignon but here is another salad idea, as promised.


I remember the first time I ate a warm salad...baby spinach leaves tossed around in a hold pan, thrown onto a garlicky dressing, topped off with hot hot lardons and their pan juices. I LOVED it!


Although salads are a must for we desperateanglohousewives, the cold weather is making my body call out for something a little more comforting than a lettuce leaf.


Here is an easy, but healthy, warm salad with a heart. I use Ravioli du Daphiné -  tiny, exquisite, flavour-bursting ravioli stuffed with fresh parsley and cheese. 


You can find these in the gourmet fridge in most supermarkets. They are a real bind to work with as they come in "sheets"..to separate, rub your hands in flour first.






Warm Ravioli du Dauphiné Salad


4 tablespoons Olive Oil
2 tablespoons capers
zest and juice of half a lemon
salt and pepper
2 sheets Ravioli du Dauphiné, separated
4 juicy beefsteak tomatos
1 red onion


Make the dressing -  oil, lemon zest and juice, capers, rough-chopped red onion, in the base of your serving bowl. Give it a quick whisk, enjoy the colours. 


Add chopped tomatos, salt and pepper.


Boil water and throw in Ravioli..as they float to the surface pull them out on a slotted spoon and straight into salad bowl.Toss gently to put some heat into olive oil.


Serve "warm" immediately with an enormous glass of Montepulciano.


Take the rest of the bottle to a hot bath, scented candle...







Comments

  1. More salad ideas. This one looks wicked.

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  2. Your blog makes me feel so good. Many thanks from an Aussie expat.

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  3. Question..Ravioli salad recipe for how many people?

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  4. How lucky your husband is! I am cooking all your food for my wife and she thinks I am Mr Wonderful. Thank you DesperateAngloHousewives for helping this desperateanglohusband.

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  5. @ DesperateAngloHusband.My pleasure!!Good to have some chaps with us..

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  6. Found you through Keith over at A Taste of Garlic. An American-Latvian living in France, I love your sense of humor and look forward to giving some of your recipes a spin!

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  7. @ Liene, welcome! Thanks for your comment...enjoy the recipes. Kind regards, Susie

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  8. Have also just discovered you through A Taste of Garlic. Can honestly say your blog has made me laugh like a looney. Have just read through the last year or so and could not stop reading.
    Seriously, if there is a publisher reading this woman needs a book published now. There is nothing boring or trite like so many blogs? It is simply original, hilarious reading scattered with the most delicious recipes.
    Thanks Keith for pointing her out to us.
    James

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  9. Have to say, BRAVO! Great blog. Very funny, fab recipes. Found you through A Taste of Garlic, many thanks to Keith, and it is a superb fnd. Agree, you should be published. Will be back for more. N

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  10. New reader. Love your blog. Smashing recipes and humor.

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  11. Go Susie! Great review and reactions from people who have discovered you through it. The recipe looks divine. Not sure if I will find the exact Ravioli here, but will get something close. Yum!

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  12. Funniest most interesting blog! Thanks to A Taste of Garlic. Are you the same Suzy who was on Masterchef last year..mayo, best risotto,? Carine

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  13. Thx to all for kind remarks. Special thx to Keith at A Taste of Garlic for sending all these new readers. @ Carine, yes I am afraid it was me. V embarrassing!

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  14. Agree, great blog. No posts since end July? Missing my weekly fix. Nadine, In Paris.

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  15. @Nadine. Thanks. DesperateAngloHousewives is in holiday. back September...

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