A 'hot' salad

So what to cook when you don't want to cook?

What about a hot smoked trout salad.

This is some of my 'lazy' cooking, a bit of an assembly job really but done with a balanced, kick your taste buds into gear flavours. A just can't bear to eat dull, boring food. Life's too short.

Whole foods are an important part of what I eat day to day but like all other normal people I have a soft spot (visible at bad angles! ;)) for dark chocolate Tim tams or those kettle potato chips.

Note to self: must find a smart way to convince Mr Run Half Marathons, aka PDC, that we don't need them in the pantry, especially since I have been making a concerted effort for our 'Fancy Party' in a couple of months.

Any way we are actually here for the hot salad, and god Melbourne was hot today and this salad made it feel a whole lot saner!

Hot smoked trout salad with taramasalata, baby pink eyes and fennel

About 100g smoked trout, flake straight off the fish skeleton

1 tbsp taramasalata

1/4 avocado, chunky bits

1/3 lebanese cucumber, sliced

1/3 baby fennel, shaved with your vegie peeler, tips reserved for the salad

A bit of spanish onion, sliced as fine as possible

1/2 a baby cos, rough shred

splash of sherry vinegar

larger splash of EVOO

S+P

A squeeze of lemon

Extras

A soft boiled egg

Baby potatoes (baby pink eyes rock), steamed

sugar snaps, steamed

Smear the taramasalata on your plate

Toss the salad together with the dressing ingredients and season

Serve over half the smeared taramasalata, add the other seasoned bits

Eat with a glass of 'far-too-cold-to-be-kosher' Beaujolais

Bring on tomorrow, 43C again!