Rucola & Pecorino Salad 500 g Rucola salad 100 g Pecorino cheese Extr virgin olive oil, balsamico vinegar, freshly ground pepper (Serves 4 as appetizer, 2 as a maindish) Wash the rucola and cut the stalks a bit away. Cut the cheese in thin slices and sprinkle it over the salad. Sprinkle some oil, vinegar and pepper over the salad. You may pep this recipe up by adding some parma ham or fresh figs!

Spinach Salad with Honey Vinaigrette 500 g fresh young spinach-leaves (uncooked!) 250 g mushrooms (Champignons!) 2 avocados 250 g bacon, diced 1 Baguette or other white bread walnut oil, raspberry vinegar, salt, freshly ground pepper, honey Wash the spinach and cut away the stalks. Cut the mushrooms in thin slices, peel the avocados and cut them into slices, too. Decorate this nicely on plates. Give the diced bacon into a pan and fry it, but don't let it get too brown. Take the bacon out of the pan, cut the bread in dices and fry them in some oil, until they are slightly browned. Sprinkle the bacon and the croutons over the salad. Make a vinaigrette out of walnut oil, raspberry vinegar, salt, pepper and honey and sprinkle it over the salad. Serves 2 Popeyes or 4 normals I loved to eat this salad in the "Chicago Meatpackers Restaurant" in Frankfurt. But they took it from the card and so I tried to reinvent it.The salad-sauce is still the biggest problem...The vinaigrette they had at Meatpackers was surely with honey, but it was thicker and more syrupy like. The other original incrediences of this wonderful salad-sauce will forever remain a secret to me...

Popeye portion for me, please!

Me, too!

Only one person can have the popeye portion. �:-[

(I guess that is the reason she included the recipe...

Yes. For ME. ]:-[

Your little faces look so unhappy - I shall make one for each of us...'cause I'd like a big'un, too *grin*

IF my faces look unhappy, be assured that it has something to do with my salad-dressing! Actually, it's weird. I'm experiencing a hangover-like state of mind after the stressful few weeks of that last assignment and exams; it's great that the year went well, but now I just don't know what do do with myself. I paint mostly, and enjoy it immensely, but I miss the fact that no interesting knowledge comes into my head when I do it. So I read - but it's not the same; one doesn't read with the same kind of depth that one studies with. Hmm.

Research into something...that is what I do when I need something energizing for my mind - and I am a Gemini, so I get restless a lot. I recall after graduating from college and getting married not much later than that, the first day alone in our apartment. I was lost! I just sat there in dispair thinking THIS was what the rest of my life was going to be like. Brainless and mindless.