What Makes the Vegetable Salad Irresistible???

Hi,

Today I decided to deviate from my blog subjects – Art and Jewelry,
 to write about

                                    “Food, Wonderful Food!”

 We, Israelis, are obsessive diners. We eat a lot! Big dishes and big meals!
(If the dish in a restaurant is poorly loaded, I mean – is stylishly arranged,
it is considered  as overcharging and  miserly…)

What is the first question a Jewish mother is asking any family member of hers?

“Have you eaten?”

I admit – I do it all the time, I cannot avoid it…Maybe it derives from
our collective memory of the hard life in the Diaspora...
(Well, it is my uneducated guess).

I am going to write about Making an Israeli Vegetable salad:

This is an exhausting  (yet rewording) process:

- Washing  and peeling the cucumber, and then – cutting it into cubes;
- Washing  and cleaning the tomato, and then – cutting it into cubes;
- Washing  and cleaning the the pepper (red/green/yellow),
   and then – cutting it into cubes;
- Cutting the lettuce into strips;
- Peeling and washing the onion and then – cutting it into cubes;
- Washing  and cleaning the raddishes, and then – cutting it into cubes;

 

Well, it is easier to write it by copy/paste, than making it literally.

And here comes the most annoying stage: making the dressing:

 

-Adding salt;

-Adding lemon juice;

-Adding olive oil;

- Adding  garlic;

Adding and adding and adding!!!

After about thousand  times of making salads  this way, I decided to make a shortcut: I prepare my divine  multi-purpose salad dressing   once a week,and here are my ingredients:(Do not ask me the amounts. A Jewish mother cooks with intuition!)

The relationship between the olive oil and the rest of the ingredients is
 2/3 oil and 1/3 the rest.

 

 

-  Smashed garlic (I use smashed frozen garlic);

-   Salt ( taste the dressing. It has to be really salty
as we put only a small amount of it in the salad);

-    Dried Oregano;

  -   Lemon juice;

  -   Balsamic vinegar  (Just a little for the color and the aroma); 

  -  Olive oil;  

 

 

 

Shake before using,  pour about one table spoon, blend the salad and

 

                                                       Bon Appetite!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

I use it also for frying a fish fillet and a chicken breast.
It is delicious, yummy!

 

P.S.

It is kosher for Passover.

Please try it, and comment below if you like it, and if it makes your life easier...

Vita