On a bit of a roll after making my first YouTube video this morning so thought I'd share this really simple, tasty and elegant salad recipe. I've always considered myself good at making salads, never at cooking generally (until I discovered my passion for whole food, plant based cooking anyway), but looking back the salads I made were probably pretty taxing for my body to digest effectively.
Foods each digest at different rates with fruits generally digesting faster than vegetables, fats and meats slower still. So my mixed salad from the old days with bacon, cheese, nuts, seeds and masses of vegetables (fruits too if you are counting the tomatoes and cucumbers) would have been a complex matter. Now my salads have simplified, or at least, I have simplified my salads. I tend to have 3-4 main ingredients and maybe a fruit based dressing on top. I adore my dressings and mostly make them in my beloved Vitamix. Not everyone has a Vitamix or blender and I wanted to eat the mango today instead of whizzing it into oblivion so created this simple mix.
Foods each digest at different rates with fruits generally digesting faster than vegetables, fats and meats slower still. So my mixed salad from the old days with bacon, cheese, nuts, seeds and masses of vegetables (fruits too if you are counting the tomatoes and cucumbers) would have been a complex matter. Now my salads have simplified, or at least, I have simplified my salads. I tend to have 3-4 main ingredients and maybe a fruit based dressing on top. I adore my dressings and mostly make them in my beloved Vitamix. Not everyone has a Vitamix or blender and I wanted to eat the mango today instead of whizzing it into oblivion so created this simple mix.
200g spinach
1 large mango, peeled and chopped into bite size chunks
1 punnet cherry tomatoes
2 mini cucumbers, chopped
That's it! Mix together and indulge in pure, tasty deliciousness.
And here's my wee chat about it....
1 large mango, peeled and chopped into bite size chunks
1 punnet cherry tomatoes
2 mini cucumbers, chopped
That's it! Mix together and indulge in pure, tasty deliciousness.
And here's my wee chat about it....
Just sit back and wonder at how simple can mean so scrumptious too!
