I’m sitting here in my lounge, kids happily playing in the shade, and I’m feeling less than enthused about having to do anything more than sit! The weather here has been amazing and the kinds of temperatures where I just want to relax and do nothing least of all cook tea! It is times like this when I want to eat something quick, simple and ….. well cold!
I had planned to be sharing another recipe here however as it isn’t quite right – I’ve almost got the recipe tasting good enough to share but at the moment we are a bit too chocolate cup-caked out to keep perfecting it in time for this post 🙂 – I thought I would share one of my quick and easy Summer Salads with you. Himself actually created the original of Summer Salad after tasting something at a restaurant and then me being me …. I have swiped his recipe and adapted it to my liking 🙂
Not the cheapest GF pasta but the best I’ve tried by far!
This can be adapted however you like really by adding or deleting whatever takes your fancy. The sky is the limit!! The recipe below is what I do which is a gluten free, diary free version. I’m also currently leaving out the sun-dried tomatoes (see last week’s post for details) and it is still yum. This feeds a family of 4 with extras.
Simple Summer Salad
Ingredients:
- Ceres Quinoa Rice pasta (See image above)
- Onion and garlic if you wish
- Mushrooms
- Sun-dried tomatoes
- Courgettes
- Shrimp
- Goats Feta
- Olives
– Slice up and fry the onion, mushrooms, courgettes and shrimp until they are how you like them – lightly fried or fried until soft- and allow to cool.
-Boil the pasta and either leave to cool or rinse under cold water to cool.
-Slice up the sun-dried tomatoes along with dicing the Goat’s Feta and add to the cold pasta with the olives
-Once the fried vegetables and shrimp are cool enough that it won’t melt the feta to pieces add everything together. Then pop into the fridge until ready to serve.
-When you are ready to serve lightly drizzle some of the oil from the sun-dried tomatoes or olive oil onto the salad and mix around to ‘freshen’ it up.
-Enjoy 🙂
Hope this finds you enjoying a relaxing evening with simple yet wholesome fare or at least planning to.
Arohanui
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