Cycle "Simple recipes from the family of Barski" - Salad "Vitamin Bomb Winter - Summer"

Cycle "Simple recipes from the family of Barski" - Salad "Vitamin Bomb Winter - Summer"

Greetings to your friends from sunny Moldova!

Can a simple salad be a topic for a great conversation)) Let's look together.
Moldovan cuisine is very diverse, hundreds, can thousands of different dishes. Everything that grows and grows in Moldova is the main ingredient of the dishes.
But there are also a lot of imported food products in Moldova. At the moment, and this is the beginning of spring, the bulk imports, which significantly affects the cost of the products not for the better.
Moldova is a small country that is in the arms of Romania and Ukraine. The country does not have its own navigable routes ... it did not have any more, recently it was allocated a small coastal strip on the Danube River, where sea vessels can berth. But, for those who want to relax on the seashore, the only way is to go abroad.
Moldova is an agrarian country. Horticulture is represented by the following fruit crops: peach, apricot, cherry, cherry, quince, almond, apple, pear, plum, cherry plum, mulberry, walnut.

The main berry crops: strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, currants, gooseberries, thorns, watermelons and melons. Recently, people began to plant kiwi and persimmon. There were frost-resistant crops.
Vegetable growing is extensive: sugar beet, red beetroot, radish, potatoes, carrots, radish, cabbage of various varieties, horseradish, tomatoes, sweet pepper, bitter pepper, gogoshara, eggplant, zucchini, pumpkin, legumes, and this is beans, soybeans, beans, peas, once I planted sweet sweet potato and got a good result. I planted peanuts, but in Moldova there are not enough light days for a full vegetative cycle, the nuts are not ripe.
Viticulture and winemaking of Moldova are known all over the world. Huge areas are occupied by plantations of grapes of various grades. The length of the wine cellars reaches several hundred kilometers. They store huge, several thousand liters of oak barrels full of aged and young wine, cognacs and brandy. We do not use wine, but we use it when preparing meat dishes, cognac is added to pates and pastries.
It is impossible not to say about cereals, but it is wheat, oats, buckwheat, barley and other types of grain crops.

Livestock, cows, oxen, sheep, goats are developed, donkeys and horses are raised in the south.

Poultry farming does not lag behind, bred chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, quails, pheasants, cisars, there are even ostrich farms.

***For what is said so much, the fact is that such a simple thing as a salad, for some people the matter is elementary, but for others, this is an unacceptable luxury!
The geographical location and the cost of shipping to the country where you are the ingredients necessary to prepare such a simple dish as a salad can become an insurmountable obstacle.
Recently, I talked with our friend on Steemit @fitinfun from Thailand, was presented with an excellent salad of greens and cucumbers, as it turned out, add to this salad, say cheese, very expensive. And some conditions do not allow you to prepare complex meals. It hurt me to read it. And I was visited by the idea, to describe not only the recipe, but also its cost price. To ensure that people with different budgets could decide for themselves, they can afford this dish, or they need to exclude some ingredient from the list.
And so, go to the bazaar, we for a salad for 5 people, my wife and three children, it will be required:

1. Salad leaves -1 bush
2. Rucola leaves - 1 bundle
3. Spinach leaves -1 bundle
4. Feathers of green onions -1 bundle - 100 grams
5. Lemon -1 pieces (juice of one lobule)
6. Cherry tomatoes - 400 grams
7. Sheep cheese - brynza - 150 grams (I bought 1.5 kg, let it be)
8. Balsamic vinegar (we had it, the bottle serves for the second year) will require a tablespoon of vinegar.
9. Salt to taste (we did not salt, the cheese is salty enough)
10. We add seasoning for salads an ode to a pinch
    In order, the salad was weighed, it turned out 630 grams, the cost in Moldova today is 4.87 US dollars / per kilogram (All further calculations will be in US dollars) This I think is very expensive, in summer I will spend $ 0.36 / per kilogram.
    So: 4.87 x 0.630 = 3.07 cost of lettuce leaves
    Leaves of Rucola bought for 0.36 is 200 grams.
    So: 0.36 x 1 = 0.36 cost of the arkona
    The spinach leaves bought for 0.36 is 200 grams.
    So: 0.36 x 1 = 0.36 cost of spinach
    A green onion bought for 0.36 is 100 grams.
    So: 0.36 x 1 = 0.36 cost of green onions
    Lemon bought for 0.73 about 300 grams, but we do not use lemon completely, only one lobule. The rest goes to tea.
    So: 0,73 / 6 = 0,12 cost of a lemon in a salad
    Cherry tomatoes are bought at a price of $ 2.13 per kilogram
    So: 2,13 х 0,4 = 0,85 cost of tomatoes in salad
    Sheep cheese - brynza - 150 grams. The cost of one kilogram is equal to the cost of one kilogram of ...... lettuce leaves !!!!!!!
    So: 4.87 x 0.150 = 0.73 the cost of sheep cheese in a salad is less than the cost of lettuce leaves ... funny!
    A bottle of balsamic vinegar, 0.5 liters, I bought last year for 5.24 dollars, and one tablespoon ... let's not count it, and lemon juice may well replace balsamic vinegar.
    Salt and seasoning ... the value is too small to be considered. But, everything loves an account, so let's lay vinegar, salt and seasoning at a cost of 0.10 US dollars.
    So, consider 3.07 + 0.36 + 0.36 + 0.36 + 0.12 + 0.85 + 0.73 + 0.10 = 6.31 US dollar is expensive?
    Let's go back, we cook for 5 people !!!
    So 6,31 / 5 = 1,262 US dollars This is the cost of one serving. Cheap?!!! Cheaper than you thought, this salad we ate for dinner, for dinner and it remains the next day!
    Therefore, for ease of counting, we divide the cost of a portion by 2
    1,262 / 2 = 0,631 US dollar, so much you will need to spend money for one serving of salad!
    Even if the cheese costs a lot of money, it can be added less, or replaced with products that are available in your region, seafood, boiled eggs, canned fish, whatever.
    This salad has become an excellent addition to the main dish of mashed potatoes with a pork and veal cutlet. Some of our tricks on cooking simple dishes like mashed potatoes and cutlets we will publish in the next posts of the series "Simple recipes from the family of Barski."

Now about the very recipe of salad, which we called "Vitamin Bomb Winter - Summer"

1. Salad greens, arugula, spinach, onions, tomatoes thoroughly rinse.***
   

2. Shred (finely, or coarse, at your discretion), crumple your hand, let it take a little juice (before adding tomatoes)

3. Cheese - cut into cubes, or rub on grater, tasty and so, and so.

4. Connect all this.

5. Sprinkle with lemon

6. Sprinkle with balsamic vinegar


7. A couple drops of vegetable oil, we use sunflower oil, can be olive, or other oil

Your salad "Vitamin Bomb Winter - Summer" is ready !!!!!!!!!!!!
Bon Appetit!!! All? ))) No, wait friends! The fact that the vegetables that are contained in this salad contain a lot of vitamins, no one will argue. But, about one ingredient, I want to focus your attention, namely on sheep cheese, although it can be replaced with any other cheese, or cottage cheese. Its specific smell and taste, is amazingly suitable for vegetables. My beloved wife, did not bear this smell before, but when she tried, she asked me to buy only such cheese)). Sheep cheese is considered to be the most useful of cheeses .... all cheeses due to its vitamin composition. Sheep cheese in Moldova can be bought directly on a flock of sheep, where people give up their herd to graze. I buy in the market, from a trusted seller, where I can choose different varieties of this cheese for today.
Everything for today, friends !!!! Bon Appetit!!!
Further read in our blog The cycle "Simple recipes from the family of Barsky" - Mashed potatoes "The lightness of the clouds"