This Saturday I had a 5 pm flight to visit my family in Seattle: this meant breakfast and lunch at home.
For breakfast, I had coconut lentil soup with pickled onions: there was just enough soup leftover to make a small meal. Plus, it was already 11 am: I slept in "slightly" after a night of salsa dancing.
For lunch, I had something special in mind. It's a salad, but it's not your typical lettuce, tomato, cucumber salad.
This one has the sweetness of ripe figs, the mild flavor from the goat cheese, the bite from the arugula and the salty, vinegary crunch of pickled onions. Instead of salad dressing, just use a splash of olive oil and a drizzle of your best balsamic vinegar, which you have reduced on the stove top till it's thick and syrupy.
That's all! Enjoy.
Hope you are all having a great week. I'm enjoying some family and friends time in Seattle! Check in on Wednesday for a panini recipe: it'll use the same ingredients as this salad, but will make something portable to take on the plane with you!
11 comments:
Mmm...those pickled onions go with everything! Great looking salad!
Looks gorgeous! Hope you're enjoying your trip!
Figs are such beautiful fruits, you have really captured their beauty in this salad and with your wonderful photos. It looks like it could be the subject of an oil painting.
*kisses* HH
Yum! This salad looks beautiful and delicious.
Those onions are getting some good use. They'd be perfect with the cheese alone.
Wow! Those figs look simply divine! Hope you have safe travels!
Figs + goat cheese is one of the most perfect, simple-yet-decadent flavor combinations on earth. I love fresh figs so much, and what a great use of those citrus-pickled onions!
Gorgeous pictures. Love how simple but full of flavor this salad is!
I never prepared a fig salad before. I will definitely give this one a big break with my hubby and kids and see if it will stay on top of our favorite side dish.
This is my idea of the perfect salad.
very very nice!
:D
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