Leeks Vinaigrette

This is my favourite salad. It’s calming to prepare and eat, a kind of cooking meditation. It is one of the few things I eat very slowly. It is so elegant and pretty in its colours, a feminine dish.

Leeks need so little doing to them before becoming delicious. I will never go AWOL (absent without leeks), as I always have some in the kitchen. Choose medium leeks for this recipe, not the club-sized things you would expect to see a Welshman banging against his shield as he taunts the e