The weekend, aka two days where meal times are not as strict and we eat what we like when we like. Shortbread for breakfast anyone?

How weekend salads differ to weekday salads

It is perfectly acceptable to add a good quantity of bacon and/or chorizo to a weekend salad.  It is perfectly acceptable to add an excessive amount of feta to a weekend salad.  It is also perfectly acceptable to spend over 15 minutes assembling a weekend salad and arrange on a plate in a way that is aesthetically pleasing. 

Weekday salads are healthy, quick and intended to make your colleagues feel guilty about their Subways and MaccyDs.  For shame.

 

Weekend salads are just pretending to be healthy. Yes, with those copious amounts of bacony goodness we aren't fooling anyone but at least there's no one around to judge us. Then I  eat cake as well.  Because I just ate a salad, so surely I've earned it?

Weekend salad for two

• 1/2 bag of mixed leaves - ideally rocket, spinach and watercress. Maybe leave out the watercress because it's like eating a small shrubbery and life's far too short.
• 200g bacon lardons, grilled until very crispy.
• 100g sliced chorizo, grilled until fairly crispy.
• 100g feta, chopped into cubes. Cubes of halloumi would be ace too, grill with a splash of lemon juice until golden.
• 4x tomatoes, sliced.
• 2x avocados, cut into rough chunks.
• 1/2 cucumber, sliced then quartered.
• 1x handful of pine nuts, toasted.
• Optional dressing - 3x tablespoons of honey with 1x of balsamic vinegar, heat in a pan until bubbling then pour over salad.  Careful, this stuff is like napalm if you get it on your skin.

Follow up with homemade in Banoffee pie
(using a pre-made sweet shortcrusy pastry, because the weekends are far too short and no one will ever know you didn't make it cos you'll gobble it all yourself).

Banoffee pie, because you just ate a salad 
and you deserve it.

After all this scoffing I set to work making our wedding guest book and RSVP cards.  

For the RSVP cards I've used parcel tags from the kraft paper range of paperchase and printed on one side where people tick to say if they are coming or not, and on the other side they tick to tell us what dinnre they've chosen - the hog roast or chicken.  The ribbon is from Cox and Cox and will be appearing all over the wedding stationery and decorations.

 

More to be revealed in due course...