raw zucchini salad

Last nights dinner was another Garden Affair - lots of good stuff straight from soil to bowl! Some of my children are complaining about how often I point out to them (like every meal) how many things have come from our garden! So let me just tell you too......... last night there was zucchini, radish, onion, garlic, basil, parsley and potatoes, although I ruined it by adding baked beans, butter and cheese (all bought).

So here's the recipe that I mentioned yesterday -

  

Luscious Raw Zucchini Salad

I used one large zuke - it was about 1kg 

1 or more cloves of garlic, crushed

A few basil leaves, chopped

Juice of one lemon

Splash of apple cider vinegar

Olive oil, how ever much you like

Salt and pepper to taste

Slice the zuke into thin rings and cut rings into slivers - the finer the better. As you can see mine are not finely cut but the intent was there! You could do this in one of those raw spiral noodle makers or even cut slivers with a peeler but I am a quick cook and like things the fast way!! Just let me add here that the fastest way is usually getting a child to cut them but I couldn't find one at the time! 

Toss in the rest of the ingredients and mix well. The cider vinegar was added because I only had one lemon, so you could try it without. And you do need to salt it really well as the zucchini just seems to 'eat it up'. This salad is even nicer when you let it sit for a while although this type of zucchini has such a delicious flavour that it's simply divine any way. 

I have been purchasing organic cottage cheese in an attempt to add more protein to our diet and have come up with this delicious way to eat it.

Herbed Cottage Cheese

Combine 1 cup of cottage cheese with a small finely chopped red onion (or spring onion), a small bunch of flat leaf parsley chopped, a pinch of dried mixed herbs, a good slurp of organic flax seed oil, freshly grated pepper and lots of good (himalayan) salt 

We had this over steamed jacket potatoes last night - from the garden ;-) but we also eat it on plain bread with sliced tomato or best of all, on toast with lashings of melted butter.

I'm sure there are other yummies that could be added to either of these two recipes, so if you have any ideas I'd love to hear them!!