Warmed Goats Cheese & Apple Salad « Homemaker Cherry Menlove

Warmed Goats Cheese & Apple Salad

Ingredients.

Apple

Avocado

Watercress

Basil

Cress

Goats Cheese

It’s Tuesday, so I’m back in the kitchen but this time with an obsession!

Warm Goats Cheese & Apple Salad

I go through food phases. Phases where I have the same thing day after day, week after week and don’t bore of them. Recent phases have included, the Tomato & Oregano dish I wrote about last week, Thai Green Curry with marinated Tofu, Cheeseburgers and a lovely supper of Chicken Baked with Walnuts.

Right now I’m enjoying a goats cheese phase. I love and adore goats cheese. When it’s in it’s raw state, as seen in the picture above, in all it’s chalky glory, I would gladly lick the last piece off of a stranger’s plate. But when it’s WARMED and in a salad I would gladly lick the last piece off of a stranger’s BODY!

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This salad is not really a recipe as such, more of a gang of food that I like and which go together. Such as these apples, being cut in the sun on an afternoon where peace descended upon my kitchen…..until Jo-Jo took the last piece of goats cheese!

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I used a non-stick frying pan on a low heat to warm the cheese before adding it to the top of the salad. I prefer doing it this way as opposed to grilling it as you can then use a silicone spatula to either turn the slices or slide them from the pan and on to the plate without them breaking or melting all over the floor as you realise that the plate you need is over the other side of the room.

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Serves Two

Wash the apple and chop into small cubes with the peel left on – set aside

Peel the avocado and slice into strips – set aside

Add watercress, basil, cress, apple and avocado to a large bowl – mix well

Warm the goats cheese using the method in the paragraph above. Approx two minutes each side

When the cheese has been warmed add to your bowl of salad and serve with my Italian Salad Dressing

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I’m not going to post a recipe each week that has a million ingredients or is complicated. I don’t always eat like that and I’m sure you don’t. This salad is something I shove down my throat all the time, with some bread for lunch, and it keeps me going until supper. The ingredients can be purchased and kept for at least three days in the fridge and will make more than one portion.

Besides, if it’s as warm where you are as it is where I am right now I do not want to be by the hob for any longer than four minutes. Unless of course I’m licking the aforementioned cheese from the aforementioned stranger. But then the heat often does that to a person!

I’ll see you tomorrow. I roped some folk in to help me over the weekend and let me tell you something……I lay turf like I was BORN TO DO IT!!!!

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