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Loving Earth Recipe Section - Will Be Ready from Monday August 1st 2011...

Sun - Blushed Botanical Spring Vegetables | Botanical

Another haul of vegetables from the garden! Just crunchy, fresh & zesty...

Dill, Grated Cabbage, Red Radish & Sweet Pea Salad | Botanical

You know when you wake up in the morning to the sound of birds chirping in the newly budding trees, yet it’s still cold and fresh with the occasional chill of alpine snow in the air? Well, the time of the year has arrived for us Victorians to reconnect with the pleasure of getting stuck into the veggie garden or strolling through the organic farmers markets to shop for our botanical spring recipes!

This recipe came about on the spot when I was asked over for dinner at my friend’s mother’s house in the countryside. She has built these great raised vegetable garden beds using old fenceposts from her farm and the spring produce and herbs were literally cascading over the edges of the garden.  Her kitchen had just been renovated too, so I grabbed one of the gorgeous wooden bench off-cuts to plate up this tasty, crisp fresh-from-the-garden salad. The water-rich vegetables in this dish are all about filling you up with out filling you out! Now that’s what I call botanically balanced eating…

 

The Smell of Summer Salad | Botanical

Summer salad prepared with salad leaves and strawberries with a grapefruit dressing and sprinkled with salba seeds. Very delicious and refreshing on a hot summer afternoon. I know that most of my readers are within the northern atmosphere, but I do live in Sydney Australia and thought to catch up with the summer recipes now before I get creative with the winter edition. This recipe  was also issued in the Purely Delicious Magazine - Summer Edition. But I guess it always a good time to have an easy sexy looking salad recipe in hand.

Simple Salad | Botanical

Simple salad prepared with salad leaves, strawberries, vine tomatoes, daikon and curly sprouts with a citrus dressing. Very delicious and refreshing on a hot summer afternoon.

Serves about 2 People

You Need

For the salad

• 4 cups mixed baby salad leaves
• couple of cherry tomatoes or vine tomatoes
• 1 cup curly sprouts
  
• 4 Basil leaves, torn gently
• 1 tbsp thyme, torn gently
• 6 strawberries, halved
• couple of thinly sliced daikon

For the dressing

• ½ Juice of lemon
• 1 red grapefruit, juiced
• A dash of Nama Shoyu
• 3 tbsp grapeseed oil

For the garnish

• Edible flowers or just herbs, washed and refrigerated