midday meal

I went yesterday to the farmer's market and got inspired to make plum cake, lemon basil panna cotta, apple galette, ricotta raspberry crumble cake, salad, crunchy colorful salad for lunch at home. But today's sunshine matches just perfectly with easy, almost no cooking required meal. So, summer salad on today's menu. Yellow, orange, green, red, purple on the plate. It takes only 15 minutes to prepare everything. 

Treat yourself and others with fresh and easy summer meals.

Recipe ::

+ 2 avocados, chopped 

+ 2 carrots, peeled and thinly sliced

+ one apple, thinly chopped  (I used local apple called Petrovača but Granny Smith will work just fine)

+ 2 purple spring onions, thinly sliced

+ one ear of corn, cleaned 

+ + cook for ten minutes in a boiling water, cool slightly and cut kernels off the cob

+ handful of fresh parsley, ruffly chopped 

yogurt-mayonnaise dressing 

+ sea salt and cracked white pepper

+ one tablespoon mayonnaise

+ two tablespoons Greek yogurt  

Place the avocado, carrots, apple, cooked corn kernels, spring onions and parsley in a large bowl and toss to combine. Place the mayonnaise, yogurt, salt and pepper in a small bowl and whisk to combine. Drizzle over the salad and toss well to combine. Serves 2.

heat

No words or explanation needed. It just happened out of rage, sadness or despair. I missed Popsicle Week party hosted by fantastic Billy from Wit & Vinegar again! What a disappointment, huge, big one. I thought, now when I finally have molds, I missed it, again!

Then we had 'without air' summer week party hosted by weather. And I was double hot or double boiled. I felt like in hell. I caught some virus and my body temperature decided to sympathize with the one from the outside. Can it get worse? Probably. Camus's Meursault could tell.

I had a pack of fresh raspberries in the fridge and chopped bananas in freezer. Simple baby smoothie on my mind. To calm me and cool me. 'I must cool my head. I need vitamins and I can't chew.' I added raspberries in a blender and blended for few seconds until smooth. And then I did something that I do so rarely. I passed raspberry mixture through a sieve to remove the pips with the help of the back of the spoon. It's faster like that. Blend no-seeds-raspberry-puree with frozen bananas and eat your no-churn-ice-cream. Grab a spoon and dig in or leave it to room temperature for few minutes and drink it. But I was exhausted from all this exercise and decided to spoon the mixture into frozen pop molds and leave it overnight in freezer where I also planned to be until heat party is over. 

Next day my beautiful and gentle pops and me continued to party but on instagram! Just look how they all dressed up, I mean sprinkled up for photo shooting.

for 4 to 5 molds
250 to 300g fresh raspberries

2 frozen bananas  

sprinkles for photo shooting and after party sweet pleasures