New Recipe – Last-Vegetables-from-the-Garden-Salad

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Last year there was a gardening project on the roof of the Palazzo Vecchio* in Florence recalling the “orticini” (“gardens”), wall paintings in Cosimo´s I residence with gardens and pergolas. It is always a good idea to put more fresh greens on roofs and walls as it helps to get a better climate in a house. In summer it cools, in winter it keeps the warmth in. In France you have to plant fresh and natural green on the roof when you are building a new house in industrial and enterprise zones. Why isn´t there anything similar in our country?

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What today´s salad concerns – I took the last carrots, beet roots, radishes, onions and herbs from our high bed gardens. I am often preparing it for guests and serving with this bread or with these crackers. It is most important to cut and to slice the vegetables as fine as possible as it tastes better. One can only believe this after having tried.

  • Ingredients (serves 2 – 4)

  • 1 medium size beet root
  • 2 medium size carrots
  • 10-16 small radishes
  • 1 small blue onion
  • 1 ripe avocado
  • 5-6 broccoli florets
  • cherry tomatoes
  • ½ of a cucumber
  • basil, parsley
  • salt, pepper
  • mustard, oil, vinegar, salt and pepper for the vinaigrette

Wash and peel beet root and carrots. If the vegetables come from the fridge let them sit for ½ hour in the kitchen. Slice and cut everything as fine as possible and arrange on a plate as if you would paint a still life. Add vinaigrette shortly before serving.

When offering this salad with bread and/or crackers say to your guests that it tastes special when taking every piece separately and always changing the vegetables. Start for example eating a piece of beetroot, take then a broccoli floret, afterwards a carrot, a cucumber and so on. There will be a kind of flavour explosion in your mouth. One cannot imagine if one has never tried. Enjoy it as if you and your guests would be sitting in a Loggia of a Medici Palace.

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*A Garden in the Palace – The Landscaped Roof Garden in the Medici Residence, May to September 2016. There is a booklet too: “The Palace´s Orticini” by Elisabetta Stumpo and Valentina Zucchi.

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