SALAD IDEAS PLEASE????

[Dublin Girl in Oz]

Hi All  - we will be celebrating next my son's Communion next Sunday and hosting lunch afterwards.  I'm looking for some ideas to serve (cold)  with roast chickens that I can prepare maybe on Saturday afternoon.  Expecting about 20 for lunch.

Thanks,

Sylvia

[Zan]

no links to recipes I'm afraid but I'd do a rice salad and potato salad the day before. In the morning whip up a big coleslaw'y type salad (we chuck in kind of whatever in the way of red/white cabbage, carrot, beans, apple, any hardish veg)  and a green salad (no tmx).

[quirkycooking]

Another great one is a carrot and grape salad - make your homemade mayo in the tmx, remove to a bowl; grate up a bunch of carrots & some celery in the tmx, and and roughly chop up some walnuts or pecans, then stir in the mayo and a few handfuls of seedless green grapes.  It's yummy!!    (Probably would do it Sunday morning though, except the mayo, so it's fresh.)

[judydawn]

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2000.0

Check this one out Sylvia - it makes heaps and always goes down well at parties.  There are 2 recipes here and with my version I have made it well ahead of time and only add the peanuts, fried noodles and dressing at the last minute to prevent it going soggy. I usually do the chopping by hand though and haven't used the TMX.

[faffa_70]

I can highly recommend the curried pasta salad - AND it is even better if you make it the day before. My family love it and it also makes heaps  

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2081.0

[whisks]

well, there are the tmx staples - beetroot salad and coleslaw. then there's also the morrocan carrot salad from the vegetarian cookbook...in fact, there's a whole pile of different salads in the vegetarian cookbook. for a vegetable something, you could also do the vegetable curry from the varoma cookbook or the warm chicken salad (without the chicken - there is a vegetarian version) from the varoma demo. you don't have to serve them warm - just toss before serving.

if you plan things well, you could one salad after another without the need to do them on saturday. they'd only take 4 seconds each it chop up.

[Cornish Cream]

I like these, both from the U.K. recipe website.
http://www.ukthermomix.com/recshow.php?rec_id=27
http://www.ukthermomix.com/recshow.php?rec_id=65
There is also this one.
http://www.ukthermomix.com/recshow.php?rec_id=66  Got a good review on here.

[Dublin Girl in Oz]

Thank you all for the ideas - I'll certainly use a few and what I don't try on Sunday will be used over the Summer months.

Thanks again,

Sylvia

[Very Happy Jan]

With summer fast approaching this is a great thread as I'm always chasing salad ideas to keep things interesting. Thanks everyone.