Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Dinner : Simple Salad



Made this quick and simple salad for myself since the ingredients are already there. Mark doesn't go for celery and tomatoes.. oh well, he just don't know what he is missing out.

Ingredients :
Chopped Celery
Chopped Cherry Tomatoes sprinkled with Basil leaves
Toasted Pine Nuts
Black Pepper to taste
Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1) Toss all together and serve.

Basils blends superb with tomatoes giving it an extra ommph. The toasted pine nuts will add a rich nutty fragrance to the olive oil.. similar to that of sesame.

If you are wondering why I used Virgin Olive Oil for this dish and stated Olive Oil for Baked Fish... it's becos they are different. Virgin Oil are purely from Olive and have a strong fragrance thus great as flavouring. However, they have a low tolerant for heat. So it is better to use Olive Oil, which is mixed with refined oil for stirfries.

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