So I decided to do the salad thing again (enticing spring and all that, not that it worked last week, but let's just say that I am of that old-fashioned if at first you don't succeed school of thought). There was nothing in the house though. Not the usual stuff, is what I mean. And in weather like this I was not likely to go to a shop. So:
Ingredients: Three tiny spinach leaves from my garden (which is all the snails left me, alas). Some sad, half-eaten parsley from my garden (ditto). Four olives. Found in package at back of fridge. No mould so should be okay. The leftover half-a-tomato from yesterday's cheese & tomato sandwich. The half-a-roundel of feta cheese left over in the bottom of the jar. Still edible though. Half-a-tin whole kernel corn. And then the thing that transformed this sad pile of leftovers into a salad fit for a king - Oded Schwartz's fantastic preserved lemons - just a small slice, chopped up and mixed with the rest of the ingredients. The lemon slices are preserved in olive oil with a hint of paprika and cayenne pepper, utterly delicious! No dressing or other seasoning needed.
The photo doesn't do it justice, really! I had no salad leaves in the house, so decided to use fruit instead. Two nectarines, one apricot, 4 halved baby tomatoes, 1/3 tin whole kernel corn. Feta cheese and some dry-roasted pumpkin seeds. Lots of lemon juice to balance the sweetness, drizzle of olive oil, ground salt and pepper. (And yesterday I repeated the salad, but added half an avocado and a few olives.)
