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A smell of oranges and the crunch of fresh linen as light slips through the window. It happens seldom – only on special Sundays. Time for brunch. A luscious, languid meal with friends. A time for gathering, for celebrating, for indulgence, brunch is communal, relaxed, inventive – sheer bliss…
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CHICORY APPLE AND PECAN SALAD serves 4
What You Need 150g of lamb’s lettuce French Spice Dressing This is a pleasant, light dressing which seems to complement almost any salad. The juice of 2 lemons Here’s How Wash, drain and wrap your lamb’s lettuce and chicory in paper or a tea towel to crisp up in the refrigerator. Tear these greens into bite-size pieces. Grate your apple on the coarse grater of a mandolin. (Do not try to use an ordinary grater for this: it does not work and your apples will end up mush. If you don’t have a mandolin, then simply cut the apples in long, lean chunks about 3/8" thick.) Now add half of your pecans. Blend together your salad dressing by placing all of the ingredients in a food processor or blender and mixing thoroughly. Now pour the dressing over the salad, mix well and sprinkle the remaining pecans on top of the salad and serve immediately. This dressing may be refrigerated and kept for up to 4 days. |
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Whenever I serve mushrooms at brunch, I like to complement them either with a beautiful bowl of crunchy radishes or a nut and fruit salad – especially apples and chicory. There is something magical about adding an apple to a salad. I only discovered this three or four years ago when by accident – being low on vegetables at the time – I grated a large apple into the salad I was making, using the coarse grater of my mandolin. This produced beautiful slim pieces of apple. I then served the salad to a man who, unbeknown to me, disliked salad tremendously. He ate it with glee and then told me that it was the only salad that he’d ever had that tasted good. That’s when I learned the secret of salad-making for those who hate salads, and it is this: practically any salad you make can be enhanced and made sweeter by grating an apple into it. In the case of this salad, the apple forms a central part of the recipe, but don’t hesitate to try it with other salads too. I think you’ll be delighted by the response of the people you serve them to. |
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