Friday Winetime

16/10 FRIDAY WINETIME SALAD



Wine needs no accompaniment or excuse ever, especially Friday wine time. But the amount I force my friends to drink with me demands that I provide something to eat as well. Nothing too complicated, which can be made quickly between glasses. Yet with enough body and flavor to satisfy. Its something nice, different, unusual - yeah, no, not too unusual - but nice. Yeah it's different.

Thank God for Friday, cant lie it's midweek for me and this was made for my Friday equivalent. Let the wine, music and friends flow freely - excess in moderation. Life's too short to waste time holding back. Greatsch.


Ingredients (all approximate) -

Spinach (2 large bunches, cleaned)
2 Tomatoes (sliced Thin)
100ml Yoghurt
1 small Garlic clove
1 tsp Smoked Paprika
1 tbsp Nigella seeds
Oil
Salt + Pepper


What I did - Down a glass

Lets not beat about the bush - its a salad. Spinach in the bowl. Slice the tomatoes wafer thin and strew in the bowl, I like cutting them whole so that they become almost another leaf in the salad.

The dressing is the most strenuous part, and by that all you need is a Jar and a strong arm to shake, which trust me doesn't take much skill. Dollop the yoghurt into a clean jar, add the oil and paprika. Mince the garlic clove in, I tend to hold back with raw garlic for fear of offending. Now using that masterfully trained arm, shake the living daylights out of the jar until the mixture emulsifies to a thickened red flecked dressing.

Pour over the waiting salad and scatter over the jet black Nigella seeds (they do look like a swarm of Ants from a distance) and Salt-N-Pepa to taste. The Yoghurt and heady Nigella seeds should tame the heat from the Paprika and make a perfectly cool salad for any shade of wine.

JG