Cold Plates

Day 162

Most people will think "lunch meat" at the mention of a cold plate, but our cold plates are salads and pickles and stuff.

Cold Plates

Cold Plates

• Potato Salad
• Broccoli Salad
• Lentil Salad
• Gherkins Pickles
• Stuffed Manzilla Olives
• Homemade Dills aka. Cian's Garlic Dills
• Kühne Pickled Beets
• Cheddar Cheese
• Soft White Rolls

Potato Salad

Ingredients

7 potatoes
5 eggs
1/2 white onion
1 1/2 cup salad dressing
1/3 cup coffee cream
1 tbsp dijon mustard
2 tbsp white sugar
1 tbsp white vinegar
Salt & pepper
Paprika

Boil eggs and potatoes (separately), then chop them and let cool completely.

Boiled eggs

Boiled potatoes

Chop onion fine and mix with the potatoes and eggs.

Chopped onion (red for lentil salad & white for potato salad

Mix  salad dressing, mustard, sugar and vinegar to make the sauce, and fold into the potato mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle the top of the salad liberally with paprika.

Potato salad

Broccoli Salad

We got this broccoli salad recipe from our friend, Marianne, many years ago.

Ingredients

1 package broccoli crowns
1 small red onion
1/2 cup walnut pieces
1/2 cup Thompson's raisins
1 cup red grapes, halved
1/2 cup salad dressing
3 tbsp white sugar
2 tbsp white vinegar

Broccoli, red onions, walnuts, grapes, raisins

Blanch the broccoli. Let cool in a bowl and then add the walnuts, onion, grapes and raisins.

Broccoli salad, sans dressing

Mix the salad dressing, cream, sugar and vinegar until smooth and then mix into the broccoli mixture.

Broccoli salad

Lentil Salad

This tastes better than you would think.

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup green lentils
3 cups water
4 or 5 green onions
1 lemon
6 tbsp olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp dried thyme
sea salt

 Garlic, scallions, lentils, lemon

Cook lentils in the water about 20 minutes, then drain. Set aside to cool. Add the green onions and garlic and stir.

Cooked lentils with chopped scallion & garlic

Squeeze the lemon. Mix the lemon, oil and thyme and add to lentil mixture. Salt with the sea salt to taste.

Lentil salad

Other Cold Plate Stuff

Some of our favorite pickles, including the garlic dills we made last fall using some of our little cucumbers, as well as rolls to have with butter.

Pickles & rolls

Cold plates

Reviews/Comments

Like a summer picnic. Let's review separately (Molly will love this):

Potato salad:
Me: 10
Laura: 8

Broccoli salad:
Me:10
Laura:10
Missy: 9

Lentil salad: 
Me: 9
Laura: 8
Missy: 9

Overall rating: 
Me: 9
Laura: 9