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This is what's left of a quick n easy salad on the side that I ate for lunch today. :-) I had some leftover curry from yesterday. I didn't want to eat no salad at all but also didn't feel like making a big deal of a salad on the side. So this is what I made. -the leaves of half a red leaf lettuce, cut into pieces with scissors -the juice of 1 fresh lemon -extra vergine olive oil -fresh ground pepper -mediterreanan herb mix (dried) mix everything together and voila: a very fresh, tasty salad with a bite. you can add more ingredients, ofcourse. I could have added avocado (thought about that later), but I was pressed for time and really wanted something healthy and tasty quickly. btw: you can add toasted seeds but as I already had pumpkinseeds on my leftover curry, I didn't bother and it tasted great anyway.

This curry is a different version from the red curry with ginger tofu. I felt like eating curry with fresh ginger and fresh kurkuma yesterday. I often cook with what's available at home and/or based on a recipe that I adapted to my taste. Last time I used the spice mix of Jonnie Boer (curry madras mix) and that's really fine; it has kurkuma, ginger, cumin, pepper, onion and garlic in it. This time I wanted to make the curry with fresh herbs, also so I could see if and how the taste is different from using dried herbs and spices. You often read that, especially about kurkuma, for your health it doesn't make a difference between using fresh or dried herbs. Kurkuma is very healthy; it's full of anti oxidants. It is being used a lot in the Indian cuisine and I love indian food. We travelled in India in 2016/2017 and the food was delicious. It was an incredible journey. in India the food is great everywhere Kurkuma also gives your food a beautiful yellow (curry) co...