Monday, February 14, 2005
A Valentine's Day Salad
The beauty of a blood orange cannot be easily captured in a photograph (especially when orange after orange refuse to be overly juicy), but I do think they are so amazingly gorgeous, I had to take a try. Below is the result. I was fully intending on making a blood-orange vinaigrette for my avocado and red onion salad last night, but was only able to use the segments themselves due to the aforementioned lack of juice. I am using these oranges not only because they are in season (and for some reason or another there are $.50 avocados in the market. Lusciously creamy and ripe ones.) but they sort of have a Valentines day feel to them. Enjoy and Happy Valentines Day!
3 large, ripe avocados cut into chunks (my goodness, I do not like the word chunk…)
2 small red onions, sliced thin and soaked in ice water until use
Segments of four medium blood oranges
¼ cup pistachio nuts (shelled, obviously)
juice from a blood orange or one large lemon
4 tablespoons best quality olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
On a platter, arrange to avocado, the drained onion and orange segments. Scatter the pistachios over that, then sprinkle the juice and oil over everything, season with salt and pepper and serve.
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