Category: salad
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Charred cabbage salad with yoghurt dressing
You should not poo-poo the idea of a salad being great. You should definitely not poo-poo the idea of a great cabbage salad. You should really definitely not poo-poo the idea of charring said cabbage for that great salad. Lessgo. CHARRED CABBAGE SALAD WITH YOGHURT DRESSING (for the barbecue table) ½ green cabbage, cut into…
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Hokkaido potato salad
This is a potato salad I first tried in Sapporo, Hokkaido, but as I would venture further around the island of Japan I realized it is a potato salad that is everywhere. Every izakaya, every supermarket, literally everywhere. But I sampled it in Hokkaido first so I just called it Hokkaido potato salad. The potato…
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Cous cous salad salad
My old mate cous cous. It’s been a while. I had almost forgot that this stuff is really good. So good in fact, that it was named twice to really get the point across. So, I headed out to track down some of the aforementioned cous cous. I found some in the pasta section of…
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Chilli cucumber salad
This is a story about a little cucumber and chilli salad I have been making of late. This salad prompted more than 1 person to question its origins and even tentatively ask me to jot down a recipe for them. Firstly, I’m sorry but this is not a very good story. Secondly, if you would…
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Curried potato salad
I like potato salad just as much as the next guy. Well, that might not be the correctest statement I have ever made, for if truth be told I probably like potato salad a whole heap more than the next guy. I know it’s not a competition or anything but I’m just saying that if…
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Bronnie’s potato salad and corn salad a la Lefty
These salads were both guided to the point where they exist today by a couple of chefs at our restaurant, the Stockpot Kitchen. They are both delicious on the banquette table, at a picnic, at a high tea, at a low tea, even packed for a camp out with your drunkard mates or, I might…
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Herby sorta thai ‘slaw
This is a story about the search for new sides to go with my BBQ. “Some kinda ‘slaw has got to be a good start”, I thought to myself (because if I thought to someone else that would make me some kind of other-world super computer human and that, I am not). This started with…
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All-of-the-things ‘slaw
All-of-the-things ‘slaw Yup. Coleslaw not purely consisting of the traditional cabbage, carrot and possibly onion, but instead this coleslaw has pretty much all of the things in it. Quite contradictory to my views of the past I might add – those who know me or who think they know me through these interweb pages will…
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