coraa | Two summer dishes

Two summer dishes, both of which tasted good and were well-received by the boy (especially the salad, which he loooooooooooved).

The salad was made of:

Butter lettuce
Romaine lettuce
Halved cherry tomatoes
Quartered red cherries
Lightly pickled spring onions
Radishes
Smoked chicken
Toasted walnuts
Grilled asparagus, chilled
Lemon-based vinaigrette (lemongrette?)

(Prepared like a salad: everything cut or torn into bite-sized pieces and washed well, dried well so that the dressing would stick, then tossed with the vinaigrette and served immediately to prevent it getting soggy.)

The soup was made of:

Homemade vegetable broth (chicken broth would also work)
A medium onion
A celery stalk
A couple of cloves of garlic
Salt
Pepper
A white potato
A head of kale
A can of diced tomatoes
Two baby zucchini
A handful of cherry tomatoes
Juice of a lemon
Fresh thyme

(Prepared in fairly standard soup fashion: sautee the aromatics with the salt and pepper until the onion is soft; add the liquid; add the kale, potato, and tomatoes; when the potatoes are almost soft, add the zucchini and cherry tomatoes; when the zucchini is palatably soft, add the lemon juice and thyme and serve.)

Two summer dishes

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