Tag: gherkin

Fish Main dish Salad
7th October 2013

Mad about Maatjes – a herring salad

In France you can buy and eat many things, but for foreigners there is always some speciality that is difficult to find. Like Maatjes herring (or Matjes herring); fresh young herring that has only been treated with a light saline solution shortly after it has been taken out of the nets. There are pots of herring in brine, sweet and sour, but that is not […]

Main dish Salad Vegetables
30th July 2013

Raw beetroot and cucumber salad

The other day I was on the market a bunch of raw beetroots. Normally they are sold individually in large bulbs, sometimes cooked. The bunch had nice leaves which the greengrocer cut off, but I later learned that those leaves are an excellent source of vitamin A, and you can eat them raw or cooked. The problem with beetroot is that it colours purple your […]