Summer is the time for BBQ and salads. When the sun is shining outside and the temperatures are not dropping below 30°C, a light salad is pretty much the only option. Salad is perfect on a hot day. This delicious Mediterranean Orzo Pasta Salad may not be the »lightest« candidate in the world of salads, but we haven’t reached 30°C in our apartment under the roof yet… we can still manage a few carbs I guess ;P
A few additional vitamins can never hurt, right? No matter if it’s summer or winter. The easiest way to get them into your diet is, of course, with some salad. To avoid eating the same boring green salad all the time, I recommend roasting veggies and use them in your salad. The best example is this Roasted Broccoli, Chickpea & Beet Salad with Feta here. Delicious and easy to prepare.
My family was never very adventurous when it comes to salad. Back in the day we basically switched from plain lettuce to tomato salad, and tomato salad… then back to lettuce, and so on. Quite monotonous, right? There is so much more you can do and enjoy. Today I am much more experimental and throw pretty much everything into a bowl and call it a salad ;P This Vegan Vermicelli Rice Noodle Salad is not really an experiment, because I basically recreated a salad I had in a restaurant… but you get what I mean, right? ;)
Summer is the time for barbecue! Right? However, even in summer, you can have rainy days too. That means you might not always be able to grill something outside in your backyard. If you got an electric grill that’s actually not a problem – just move your BBQ party into the house. These delicious Kofta Skewers with Tomato Salad can be grilled outside or inside – it does not really matter. They will turn out great no matter what type of grill you are going to use… a frying pan is actually also fine here ;)
Give me a colorful and delicious salad, and I am happy. There is nothing better in summer. Salads are healthy and normally not too complicated to prepare. The latter does not quite apply to this Summer Salad with Roasted Quinoa & Chickpeas, to be honest. Well, at least not fully. Compared to a simple tomato salad you have to do several steps more to get this salad on the table… but it’s definitely worth the extra work. Roasting the quinoa and chickpeas before adding to the salad makes a great difference ;)
There are not many dishes that are considered »classics«. In Germany, you can definitely put the well-known Wiener Schnitzel on the list (even though it’s from Austria). The US has a lot of these dishes that are known all over the world – the famous Waldorf Salad is just one of them. You probably guessed it already there is a connection to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel ;) Have you ever had one? The salad had its heyday in the last century, so if you are younger than 30 the chances are quite slim… ;P
I love my job, but in between I love to bake and try new things in the kitchen. A lot of my friends and colleagues encourage me to bake - for a very simple reason: they get the leftovers - and it seems they like it most of the time ;) 
