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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol. 40 Number 4. March 21 1977

Best Rare and Beautiful

Best Rare and Beautiful

Food Munchies

Food Munchies

Nearly every vegetable combines with other vegetables or fruit to make a salad. One exception is Beetroot which tints everything it sees.

The best salads are the simplest: the more ingredients you add the more a uniform drabness appears.

If using lettuce, cabbage or any green vegetable, apply the dressing just before serving. One of the simplest salads is lettuce (chilled) with french dressing. Don 't chop lettuce or cabbage too finely: tear lettuce into bite sized pieces just before you serve it. Shredding vegetables and leaving them for hours before use means that when you finally eat them most of their vitamins and minerals have long gone and been destroyed. Kentucky fried Chicken, Homestead, Big Tex, Wimpey and McDonalds fans note well. Prepare salads last, just before you need them.

Straight lemon juice is another inexpensive, health-ful and convienient dressing for cabbage—based salads and certain others (no good at all on lettuce though). The acid in lemon juice prevents discolouration of banana's and apples in salads as well.

Try adding to cole-slaw and lettuce salads new ingredients you haven't used before e.g. Brewers yeast, toasted Sunflower seeds, chopped walnuts, cashews, orange segments, raisins, banana slices, apricots, leftover pasta and noodles, leftover beans, peas, grated raw beetroot.

Beetroot is relatively cheap at the moment...

* Simple Beetroot Salad....

(Boil Beetroot whole, cutting off the tops but not the long tails, to prevent "bleeding", for about an hour. Then the outer skins will slide off).

Dice or slice cooked beetroot. Add salt and pepper, two parts vinegar to one part water. Raw sliced onion can be added also.

* Beetroot and Orange Salad...

Prepare beetroot as above. Dice when cool. Add orange juice and melted honey to taste.

Try also

  • Zuchinni sliced (raw or lightly cooked), grated carrot, walnuts, lemon juice, mint.
  • Grated carrot, chopped mint, raisins, french dressing.
  • Orange segments, sliced tomatoes raw onion rings, parsley, french dressing.
  • Tomato wedges, french dressing, onion, parsley, salt and black ground pepper.
  • Orange segments, juice of an orange juice of a lemon, chopped walnuts, chopped dates, parsley.
  • French Bean Sprouts, sliced mushroom, tomatoes, sliced celery, lemon juice.
  • Finely sliced leeks broken into rings, chopped chives, parsley, lemon juice.
  • Soak a mixture of red, white, black eye, lima, kidney, and your favourite, beans. Cook until tender. Add to green sliced green bean, fresh or cooked, parsley, chopped spring onion, french dressing.
  • Diced peeled cucumber mixed into yoghurt is a traditional Indian (Salad) Curry accompaniment. Don't add curry powder as mis-printed last week.
  • Next week:—Tabouli.