Recipe: Ada’s Coconut Salad
She’s getting better. The last time she made a salad, I helped her by giving her my formula for salad: greens, a nut, a fruit, a cheese (except for hers) and a vinaigrette.
She made dinner tonight–a salad, she exclaimed! She said she wanted to make a coconut salad. Fine with me. She remembered my formula when she assembled it, although leaving out cheese. Her salad was mixed baby greens, slivered almonds, dried cherries and coconut. It was actually not bad at all. Here is Ada’s review:
This salad is so yummy! I never want to stop eating it! Do you think someday we’ll go into a restaurant and they will be making this salad?
She’s not lacking confidence about her salad skills at least.
Mac was in the kitchen to help her reach bowls and only guided her what to not put in it. He talked her out of slices almonds, which doesn’t surprise me she wanted those because that’s the nut we choose last time. He talked her out of hazelnuts, which is too bad because they would have been good, but they also needed to be chopped. He also talked her out of vinaigrette, which was too bad because it needed some. A little moisture and some vinegar to tame the bitterness of the greens just a tad. If it had a little of that and the nuts would have been toasted, the salad would have been very good. However, I do understand Mac’s reasoning. He couldn’t think what vinaigrette would go good with this and thought that it needed something sweet, and since we don’t have vinaigrette in a bottle because I make it every time I make salad, he just didn’t know what would work.
For her next salad, I’m going to have her write out a recipe. We will decide together what type of vinaigrette would go good with it ahead of time.
