Salad Days: Salad Days of Our Lives

Monday, September 21, 2009

Salad Days of Our Lives

Welcome to the Salad Days of Our Lives, a visual record and recipe bank based on a super duper awesome fantastic salad club we, a bunch of Montreal lunch mates, formed. The idea is this: every weekday except for Friday (burrito day), one member of our club makes salad for everyone else (and themselves). It's a tasty take on a commune, if you will, keeping us all fed and healthy everyday (except Friday) and saving all but one of us at a time the effort of making or cost of buying a lunch. We encourage everyone around the globe who's stuck with the workaday quandary of feeding themselves to form their own salad club. You won't regret it; ours turned out so delicious that we couldn't resist the impulse to share our tasty creations with you all on the worldwide interweb. So watch this space tomorrow for the first of many recipes. And enjoy!

Cheese and rosemary staws

Because sometimes you need a cheesy sidekick! I was at a loss for what to do with the mass of rosemary my herb garden keeps on sprouting, so this idea came to mind. Try this at home, your friends will thank you:

2 cups flour

3 ounces soft salted butter

1/4 cup very green olive oil

1/2 cup grated Swiss cheese

1/4 cup grated parmesan

Some cold water

Sprig of fresh rosemary, stalks removed, chopped very finely

Coarse black pepper

1/4 teaspoon salt

Mix the flour, cheeses, rosemary, salt and pepper together with the softened butter, cut into small chunks, in a large bowl. Knead the mix together with your hands under it forms a kind of granola texture, then add in the olive oil. Mix more. What you're going for is a pastry texture, so you'll have to add some water as you knead it, little by little, until it suddenly all sticks together. Roll until about a quarter inch thick, then cut out the shapes you like - sticks, if you like things simple. Lay on a baking sheet you've brushed/sprayed with olive oil, and bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes, or until golden. Miamiamiam.