Fruit Salad

Ever had an evening when all you had is fruit for dessert and you have to make the best use of it? Well, I keep having the days like that all time, considering both hubby and I decided that we are getting old (ha ha, not quite) and that we have to eat healthy. Below is not exactly a recipe but just to give you an idea of a different way to present boring fruits.

Just scoop the water melon with a melon-ball tool or a regular steel round measuring spoon. It would be better if your melon is seedless. Arrange a martini (or any) glass and drop the scooped melons in it. Throw in a few raspberries and garnish with fresh Parsley. You could also drop a few tbsp of watermelon juice in the glass. Serve chilled. 

Tips:
1. You could replace watermelon with cantaloupe and raspberries with strawberries.
2. You could put a scoop of ice cream on top.
3. You could drizzle chocolate on top.
4. You could pour in Baileys.

Tossed Italian Salad

I absolutely love this salad for its refreshing and simple taste. A must for every Italian dinner evening.
I am aso sending this entry to Salads Only event hosted by Prathibha and Pari. 

Ingredients:
Spinach leaves: 1/2 cup
Lettuce: 1/2 cup, broker with hand
Small radishes: 3, thinly sliced
Peppers: thinly sliced, as much as you want.
Red Onion: 1/4, thinly sliced

Dressing:
Balsamic vinegar: 2 tbsp
Extra virgin olive oil: 2 tbsp
Sea Salt: 1/4 tsp

After you serve on plate:
Freshly ground pepper: As desired
Parmesan cheese: As desired.

Method:
Tear the spinach leaves, lettuce and add to thinly sliced radishes, onion and peppers. Toss a bit.
Add the dressing before you serve. After you serve on a plate, garnish with Parmesan cheese and ask if the guest/family want any pepper.

Bok Choy Soup

Dear all, I hope you all had a fantastic Dassera! Mine was good too; relaxing pretty much through out the weekend. I still need to write recipe for 'murukulu' which I made. But for now, some healthy soup. 

I love Chinese food. Contrary to the popular belief that Indian food is the most difficult to make, I find that Chinese is more difficult than Indian. Perhaps its because I am not really familiar with Chinese recipes. One of my favorite and easy-to-make Chinese appetizers is Bok Choy Soup. Below measurements serves two.For someone like me who is forever struggling for time, this soup is a blessing!

Ingredients:
Bok Choy: 10 leaves, chopped
Vegetable stock: 2 and half cups
Soy sauce: 1 tsp
Butter: 1 small cube (Optional)

Method:
Boil the stock for 5 minutes. Add the chopped Bok Choy, simmer and boil for another 10 minutes. By this time Bok Choy would have turned dark green. Add soy sauce and boil for another minute. Switch off and serve piping hot with a small butter cube.

Note:
You can add almost anything to this soup to make it more interesting. Example: cooked chicken, cooked shrimp, cooked veggies...literally anything! Add anything after 5 minutes of boiling bok choy. You might have to reduce the quantity of bok choy if you are adding other veggies.

I am sending the above recipe to Chaitralis soup event. Here is the link for the rules and the event itself.