How was your weekend? It was pretty slow-going around here although I stared with a lovely girls dinner at Malt Dining on Friday night. We had a 6.30 booking and it was nearly 10.30 before we even looked at the time – the sign of a good night with the girls.
I think the next few weekends will be pretty quiet as we eagerly await Bubba’s arrival. It’s the strangest feeling knowing it could happen today or not for four weeks. The heat is slowing my pace too although I had a nesting attack yesterday and decided to declutter every space in the house. Good thing we’ve only lived here 6 months so it didn’t take long but I do have 2 garbage bags full of stuff to donate.
The hot weather has made me crave cold food for lunch and for most people the first thought is salad. You probably know that I’m not a salad lover and by that I mean salad in the traditional sense with lots of lettuce and cucumber (I still can’t stand cucumber) but I do love an alternate salad.
I can’t get enough of zucchinis lately so this marinated zucchini salad recipe went straight to the top of my ‘to try’ list when I saw it at the end of last year. As Sheldon Cooper would say ‘it’s zingy.’ It’s a very fresh and light salad perfect with grilled meat fresh off the barbecue.
Ok so serving it with a barbecue sort of defeats the purpose of it being cold but it still provides a refreshing element to your plate and for me, it’s token greens – nice and healthy with no leaves in sight.
What about you? Do you crave cold food in the heat? What’s your favourite summer lunch?
Fresh zucchini salad
Ingredients
Instructions
I used to think I wasn’t a salad lover too, but I think that’s because I was brought up on salads that were pretty bland and were unexciting. I’ve definitely been converted over recent years though, and I have to say I love the look of your zucchini salad.
I’m yet to make the conversion Jennifer! I was the most boring eater as a child so I can’t even blame that!
I love Zucchinis too. This is such a nice way to eat them and certainly fills the salad niche. How very exciting Claire. No time to go at all
Could be any day Tanya!
I could eat this kind of salad till the cows come home, with our without anything else. It looks fantastic Claire.
I’m excited for you as you wait for the little one!
It is very you Chris. Thank you!
This looks like a great salad, I’ve just started using more veg in my salad because like you, I’ve just got a little bored with lettuce and all the regular stuff. Things must be getting so exciting for you now. GG
Sure are GG!
Salads are all I want. I’m going through tomatoes (and cucumbers) like crazy. I haven’t made this zucchini salad but I want to!
Stay well, sweet thing.
Do you still have heaps growing? I’d be eating lots of tomatoes if the stupid possums hadn’t gotten to them.
I do like a chilled lunch when it’s hot. My fav is a cold tomato gazpacho – I just serve it in a big glass like a smoothie and sip on it while running around after the kids :)
Sounds wonderful Christie but I had an awful introduction to gazpacho and have never been able to stomach it!
Hehe so you’re still not really a salad lover? I can’t eat anything else in this heat. This salad looks lovely!
Nope!
I’m having a zucchini/courgette and griddling phase at the moment so this would be perfect, although I’m not sure I could wait for it to chill! Having trouble remembering what summer is at the moment in wet and windy London, but I think my favourite summer lunch would involve a bit of this salad, the potato salad you posted the other day and some BBQ chicken…yum!
You could have it warm Danielle. I think it would still be good! Ooh yes potato salad and chicken. Yum!
Did you use a speed peeler to get your lovely ribbons or cut slices by hand??
I just used a regular potato peeler.
What’s a speed peeler? GG
GG it’s really just a potato peeler :-)