I’m a Rainbow Too – Poetic Salad for an Uncertain Beginning

What you need to have… 2 black radishes, 50 g pumpkin seeds, 1 red grapefruit, 1 big orange, 1 spoon olive oil, 50 g baked walnuts, salt, beginning of the year enthusiasm, some Mircea Dinescu inspiration

What you need to do… grate the radishes. Peel the pumpkin seeds, throw the shells in the thrash bin (doh!), throw the kernels in the salad bowl (doh doh!). In case you start to feel hungry and wanna throw the kernels in your mouth instead, have a sip of some sweet&strong liquor (e.g. sour cherry liquor – vishinata). It will cut down (for a while…) your desire for salty hunger-cuts. So… back to grating the radishes. Peel the grapefruit and orange. Make sure you remove all the bitter peel of the grapefruit. Do the peeling on top of the salad bowl, so that you keep all the yummy&healthy juices. Chop the walnuts and throw them in the bowl. Add salt and olive oil; stir well. It may well be that the radishes call for some extra oil. It all depends on you if you wanna give in or not to the call The Squirrel can testify that not giving in does not in any way diminish the pleasure of the ingesting the final Rainbow.

There! Happy new year! Many thanks Mr. Mircea Dinescu and his “Lacrimi si sfinti” (Tears and saints) new restaurant for providing inspiration on December 31st, that is put to a practical good use on January 5th (as you may well see for yourselves in a couple of minutes, and as the Squirrel & Collaborator already have)

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