This is my 30th Random Recipe. I haven't missed a single one (although I have been a bit tardy on occasion) from the very start of Dom's successful challenge.
For the occasion, Dom asked us to count along our recipe books, choose the 30th one and cook whatever was on page 30.
My 30th book is Roast Figs Sugar Snow by Diana Henry - a beautiful and inspiring book given to me by my dear friend. A lot of the recipes are warming, comforting dishes for wintertime but luckily page 30 gave me a salad so it was fine for the glorious temperatures we were getting here at the start of the month.
The recipe was for Salad Of Pear, Hazelnuts And Cashel Blue Cheese. I varied it slightly by using gorgonzola instead of the Cashel Blue and pecans instead of hazelnuts only because that is what we had in the house. The salad is a lovely, filling one. It uses roasted red onions as well as a mixture of salad leaves and the meltingly sweet pears to go with the nuts and cheek-sooking cheese.
Sometimes my older boy will turn up his nose at "smelly" cheese but my relentless foisting of it upon him is obviously paying off as everyone in the house finished off their salads with clean plates. My kind of Summer meal.
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Look at your gorgeous photos! Do I sense a bounce board in use? :-D
ReplyDeletep.s. you're some woman - there's no way my daughter would eat something so adventurous!
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DeleteNo bounce board - just right in front of window and still using my compact - too lazy to make the time to do it properly!
ReplyDeleteOh I can be a right bitch about the eating thing! It's for their own good. Hee hee.
I absolutely love this cookbook and just about everything that Diana Henry dishes - luscious looking salad!
ReplyDeleteI'm a relative newcomer to Random Recipes, but i love it - fantastic that you've been in it all the way through. I don't have any Diana Henry books, but my friend has this one and I've had a good few flicks through it. probably about time I bought my own.
ReplyDeleteLovely recipe. I'm very impressed that you haven't missed a single RR.
ReplyDeleteahhh Lou, you're my muse... so proud of my little random recipe mega-fan... and another very nice pick from you this month, perfectly fitting for the summer and totally gorgeous and tasty too... a lovely and very fitting entry, thank you x
ReplyDeleteIt's the classic combination isn't it? I have Roast Figs & Sugar Snow too but have yet to cook from it. I'm hoping I select it for an RR soon as I may never get to it. It's a wonderful book to read and I too remember the Laura Ingalls story she recounts about the sugar snow. I keep thinking I'll make 'Hot Lightening' (not in the index but in the recipes) with the apples and potato but there is never the right moment...
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on doing all 30 - well done!
Love the cookbook title - and your salad looks stunning! It's surprising sometimes how adventurous little people can be - tonight Mini-M polished off a plate of venison bhuna! Other times it's a cracker and a banana though - you can't win them all...
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