Here’s a tasty, balanced lunchtime dish combining seasonal purple sprouting broccoli – catch it in its short growing season! – or you can use ordinary summer broccoli instead. …
salad
Noodle Salad
At Cuddly Carrot, we are colour addicts. We live in bright warm colourful houses and wear multi coloured clothes and our food is no different! Food without colour is just not worth eating, so we try and pack in as much colour and variety into our dishes as possible. This noodle salad is packed with bright hues of orange and red and purple as well as a brilliant combination of tastes to make you forget it’s grey and dull outside! Keep this sunshine inside with this great lunch dish. …
Cucumber Salad
This is not quite afternoon tea cucumber sandwiches for ladies who lunch! It’s a bit more like real food… but easier, quicker and yummier! We’ve got tonnes of gorgeous organic cucumbers growing in the green house so we’re leaving our skins on – also this is where most of the goodness of the cucumber is to be found. The dressing for this is a lovely sharp and sweet combo and topped with edible flowers, the salad is definitely fit for a lady!…
pea and bean salad
We feel that nothing beats fresh peas and beans from the garden, lightly steamed and straight onto your plate! Here we combine their naturally sweet flavour with the sharpness of lemon and mustard as well as black basil, lemon basil and fresh tarragon. A great salad for lunch time with some bread or another salad dish, or you could serve it as an accompaniment to a main dish at dinner time. …
broad bean salad
Summer is really here now and we are starting to enjoy more veg from the garden at the Steading. We have just enough broad beans to make this salad so we thought we would share it with you too! Very simple, just a celebration of fresh healthy green stuff – serve along with our lemony zingy pesto dressing. …
Orange radish kiwi salad
There’s really nothing to this salad other than a delightful combination of unusual ingredients. We put this together for a lunch to compliment another salad and it did jus that! Freshness and a great colour burst to lift your table. …
Spinach, pea shoots, radish and orange salad
Baby spinach is abundant at this time of year – easy to buy and growing fast – so make the most of this vibrant salad leaf with this fresh combination of citrus zing, radish crunch and tasty leaves. Pair with our Almond, purple sprouting and pepper tart or any an abundance of other salads for a great mid-week dinner. …
Quinoa Tabbouleh
In a gluten free diet, couscous is not an option, but as tabbouleh is such a tasty salad, we don’t want it to disappear from our menu – quinoa to the rescue! Its nutty flavour really adds to this dish and its texture compliments the other ingredients nicely. The first radishes are up in the garden at the Steading so this is a little homage to the humble radish! Excellent as part of a spring or summer lunch or an interesting accompaniment to a main dish. Fresh, clean and healthy. …
Potato asparagus egg
With asparagus season in full swing we have really been enjoying roasting this veg for a simple but delicious meal. This serves 2 as a lunch so increase the quantities for more people or a more filling meal. It works well as an accompanying side dish, possibly without the egg. 
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Flageolet Bean Salad
Delicate pale green beans continue our green theme for Spring in a tangy simple bean salad. Lovely for lunch or dinner….