Summer Herb Salad with Lavender, Nectarine and Caerphilly

Name: Summer Herb Salad with Lavender, Nectarine and Caerphilly
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 fat nectarines (or peach, mango, or plum), pitted; 2 fat nectarines (or peach, mango, or plum), pitted; 12 cherry tomatoes, halved; 2 fat nectarines (or peach, mango, or plum), pitted; 1 small courgette (zucchini); 1 red onion, finely sliced; 2 fat nectarines (or peach, mango, or plum), pitted; 1 small courgette (zucchini); 3–4 sprigs of fresh lemon verbena, crushed; 1 big handful of edible flowers; 100 g/3½ oz/½ cup plump black olives; 125 g/4½ oz Caerphilly cheese, roughly cubed; 1 big handful of mixed aromatic summer herbs: red amaranth, chickweed, dill, fennel leaf, nasturtium leaves, anise hyssop, purple basil, tarragon, oregano, summer purslane...; 1 big handful of mixed aromatic summer herbs: red amaranth, chickweed, dill, fennel leaf, nasturtium leaves, anise hyssop, purple basil, tarragon, oregano, summer purslane...; 1 big handful of mixed aromatic summer herbs: red amaranth, chickweed, dill, fennel leaf, nasturtium leaves, anise hyssop, purple basil, tarragon, oregano, summer purslane...; 1 big handful of mixed aromatic summer herbs: red amaranth, chickweed, dill, fennel leaf, nasturtium leaves, anise hyssop, purple basil, tarragon, oregano, summer purslane...; 1 big handful of mixed aromatic summer herbs: red amaranth, chickweed, dill, fennel leaf, nasturtium leaves, anise hyssop, purple basil, tarragon, oregano, summer purslane...; 1 big handful of mixed aromatic summer herbs: red amaranth, chickweed, dill, fennel leaf, nasturtium leaves, anise hyssop, purple basil, tarragon, oregano, summer purslane...; 1 big handful of mixed aromatic summer herbs: red amaranth, chickweed, dill, fennel leaf, nasturtium leaves, anise hyssop, purple basil, tarragon, oregano, summer purslane...; 1 big handful of mixed aromatic summer herbs: red amaranth, chickweed, dill, fennel leaf, nasturtium leaves, anise hyssop, purple basil, tarragon, oregano, summer purslane...; 1 big handful of mixed aromatic summer herbs: red amaranth, chickweed, dill, fennel leaf, nasturtium leaves, anise hyssop, purple basil, tarragon, oregano, summer purslane...; 1 big handful of mixed aromatic summer herbs: red amaranth, chickweed, dill, fennel leaf, nasturtium leaves, anise hyssop, purple basil, tarragon, oregano, summer purslane...; 1 big handful of mixed aromatic summer herbs: red amaranth, chickweed, dill, fennel leaf, nasturtium leaves, anise hyssop, purple basil, tarragon, oregano, summer purslane...; 1heaped tsp dried organic lavender; 1–2tbsp red wine vinegar; 4tbsp extra-virgin olive oil; 2–3 garlic cloves, minced; 1heaped tsp creamed horseradish; salt and freshly ground black pepper; salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Salmagundi

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

About

Gee this is a bling recipe, a ditsy young girl of a salad, guaranteed to skip across your taste buds and transport you to those halcyon days of long picnics and overhead larks and sand between the toes and the plop of water against the dock and the sigh of wind in the reeds, and poppies peeping out of the hedgerows, and the far-away cry of plaintive gulls, and the knowledge of the whole summer yawning ahead. Of course, the truth is that this poncy-but-delectable salad is full of new-fangled

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Raw
Vegetarian
Summer
Gluten-free

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