If you would like to make a salad like this, I'll tell you what I put in it, but I didn't measure, so you'll have to decide the specifics for yourself.
(I am completely aware that I drive some of my friends and family crazy with my lack of specifics in my recipes. My kitchen craft is more art than science, so please bear with me.)
Ingredients:
Chopped up sweet peppers (green, yellow, orange, red)
diced tomatoes
chopped red onion
kalamata olives (pitted)
feta cheese
Dressing:
about 2 parts olive oil to 1 part vinegar (raw apple cider, balsamic, or red wine) (I used 1/4 cup olive oil and 2 Tbsp. raw apple cider vinegar on this salad. Then I sprinkled it with balsamic vinegar, because it tasted like it needed more.)
a generous amount of fresh or dried oregano. I also added some basil leaves to this one.
salt and pepper
If I'm using fresh herbs, I blend them into the oil and vinegar in my Vitamix. A blender would work too.This salad is better after it has set in the refrigerator overnight and had time to soak in the flavors. We have trouble with this step, as it tends to disappear rather quickly at our house.
Lisa
Lisa - that's a great idea for using peppers! My refrigerator drawer is filled with peppers and I was going to freeze and lacto ferment them - but a salad is brilliant! My family will love the excuse to eat some feta.
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