As the English say: "A woman can create three things out of nothing: a hat, a salad and a scandal." You yourself know everything about hats and scandals. But I would like to dwell on salads.
Autumn has come - it's time for vegetables. How to make a salad correctly so that vegetables do not lose their healing properties and vitamins?
So, whatever recipes for fresh vegetable salads you find, you need to cook them just before serving, otherwise the vegetables will juice up and the salad will drain. It will not only look unpresentable, but vegetables will also lose most of their vitamins. It is for the same reason that it is necessary to season with mayonnaise or sour cream before serving.
If you decide to make a salad with cooked vegetables (such as a vinaigrette), keep the vegetables unpeeled. You will only clean and cut them during cooking. Vegetables cooked in their skins (potatoes, carrots, beets) are better cleaned warm, respectively, and there will be less waste. And you should only cut vegetables when they are completely cool. If you cut warm boiled vegetables into a salad, it will deteriorate very quickly, and it will look inappropriate. Also, the salad will quickly turn sour if during cooking you mix cold ingredients with warm ones.
If you are afraid that boiled beets will color other vegetables, after cutting, season it with sunflower oil - it will restrain the release of beet coloring juice.
If you have guests at your home and you want to impress them, be sure to decorate the salad. Not enough of your imagination - find salads with photos on the Internet. If the composition includes pieces of fish and meat, vegetables or fruits, as well as greens, then they directly can serve as a decoration for the salad itself. The mayonnaise mesh looks very nice on salads, and if you know how, you can cut beautiful flowers and figures from vegetables or fruits, the main thing is not to overdo it, after all, it should be visible what the salad is made of.
Salads - cocktails also look spectacular on the festive table. If you have never heard of this, be sure to look on the Internet for recipes with photos, you will like it. In principle, these are the same salads, only all the ingredients are laid out in layers in glasses. And they prepare quickly and look beautiful. If the salad is a cocktail with fish or seafood, then you can hang a lemon on the glass. Lettuce leaves or sprigs of fresh herbs will serve as a wonderful decoration.
On the Internet, there are also salads of various bizarre shapes. If you are planning a party in some style, then you can prepare a kind of beautiful salad for it. In addition, even the usual and well-known "Olivier" can be laid out and decorated depending on the theme of the event. Here, everything is your imagination!
