Saturday, November 2, 2013

Blogathon III: The Salad Course

Whenever a recipe calls for two heads of garlic, you know you're in a for a treat. When it's a simple salad in the middle of my marathon write-up session, well, that's just a win-win.



Sometimes it doesn't take a great deal of detective skill to work out the final product from the ingredients. If you guessed green bean salad with almonds and a honey-mustard dressing, ten points for you!



Ah, the sweet tedium of topping and tailing a kilo of green beans.



Almonds toasted...



...and green beans blanched. Our work here is almost complete. But let's not forget the most important part, that most delicious of treats...



...the roasted garlic. Just about any recipe would be better off for a judicious helping, and this one more than most. Nobody likes green beans on their own, after all.



Mix the almonds with the beans, with a judicious seasoning, and then we have but to make the dressing.



And there we have probably the least appetising picture of the year. So there's that. This is why I tend to avoid salad dressing. But in this instance, it's quite the necessary component. It does have two heads of roasted garlic in it, after all.



The end result. Crunchy, healthy-ish, not too mustardy, and in general unspeakably delicious.

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