Elle's Kitchen: A Week of Salads ~ Greek Salad

 

This is day 2 of A Week of Salads.

Tonight is Greek Salad, a favorite

around our house.

 

 

The best Greek Salad I ever had was,

fittingly, in Athens.

 

 

We had spent the morning at the

Acropolis and were hungry and

exhausted by lunchtime.

 

 

Ingredients:

 

For the dressing:

2 tabl. white balsamic vinegar

salt & pepper to taste

a few pinches of oregano

1/8 cup olive oil

a pinch or two of sugar

 

Combine ingredients in a small

jar and shake well.

 

For the salad:

romaine lettuce, chopped

1/2 cucumber, quartered and sliced

tomatoes, diced

1/2 red onion, sliced

feta, crumbled

kalamata olives

thinly sliced feta, drizzle with dressing

 

 

Drizzle some of the dressing on the

lettuce and toss, arrange on plates.

 

In a bowl, combine tomatoes, cucumbers,

onions, crumbled feta and olives.  Drizzle

with the remaining dressing, toss.

 

Arrange tomato/cucumber mixture

on top of the lettuce and place the sliced

feta in the center.

 

 

When I eat this salad, it takes me

right back to Greece.  Don't you

love this man with his flowers?

 

 

As I would walk the streets of Athens,

I kept seeing these heads on the edges

of the rooflines.

 

 

On my way from Santorini to Istanbul

I had a long layover in Athens and hopped

on the subway and went back into town.

In the flea market in Monastiraki I spied

a few of the terra cotta heads and grabbed

one.  It now is in my living room, my own

little antique treasure from Greece.  I

always imagine all the life that little head

witnessed overlooking the streets of Athens.