Recipe: Strawberry Olive Salad

                      

Often the best recipes are the ones with the simplest of ingredients and the fewest steps.

These are the kind that you can whip up out of thin air in mere minutes, yet they taste like you spent hours calibrated every tantalizing morsel that offers a perfectly choreographed taste explosion within every bite.

Sweet And Crisp With A Touch Of Salty Tang

This recipe has 4 ingredients.

Yeah, 4 and it will serve 4 people.

Ok, here's what'll you'll need:

                      

• 1 lb or 454 g of fresh strawberries (cleaned of their leaves and quartered)
• 1/2 an English Cucumber (peeled and chopped into small pieces)
• 24 black Kalamata olives (sliced)
• 8 tsp of white balsamic vinegar (Any balsamic vinegar will work but you may have to adjust to suit your personal tastes, as some vinegar is stronger than others. With that said, start with 4 tsp and add more as needed.)

Directions:

Cut all the ingredients into bit size pieces and toss together in a decorative serving bowl. Drizzle with the Balsamic vinegar.

                       

No, seriously that's all you do...then you put a smile on your face and sit down and enjoy your meal and the company that you are sharing it with.

(You're welcome. I love giving people permission to enjoy their own life every once in a while.)

                       

You'll just have to trust me...I mean who eats black olives and strawberries together?

                      

I took all the photos (above) with an Apple 8+ cell phone and I make a concert effort to use appropriate tags.

I welcome your comments and I invite you to follow me on my journey...we will be experimenting with different flavour combinations along the way. ;)

~ Rebecca Ryan