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Sunday, 22 February 2015

Salads in Winter

February 1st - I'm a woman on a mission.  The glacier growing on the top of the freezer is threatening the next ice age but the freezer drawers are still pretty full of things I'd put in for Christmas.  I decided that if I used up a duck then that would free up a lot of space in one go, but what to do with it?  You must think I do nothing but watch cooking programmes on TV...but when I'm busy working at home to prepare for the week ahead I need a bit of background 'noise' but nothing too heavy thatI need to follow a storyline so cooking programmes are ideal.  Nigel Slater was about to come up trumps again!  Warm duck salad with a citrus dressing.  This recipe wasn't actually in the (two) Nigel Slater cookbooks I have (The Kitchen Diaries) - does anyone else find these hard to navigate? - but I got enough of the gist of it to cook it for supper.  Basically it's slices of juicy orange, green salad leaves and then warm, roast duck on top.  Added chopped chilli, spring onions and made an asian style citrus dressing.  It was seriously good.  Warm salads are so good in the depths of winter when you really don't want cold food but it still feels light and healthy. Mmmmm.

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