mediterranean halloumi salad

Kay's birthday (and summer) dawns grey and grim. Just think, this time last year it was baking and we had the barbie out, and even April was better than this.

Still we had five excellent reasons to ignore the perma-mist today:
1. Milo went directly from his room to the front room to 'entertain' grandma and grandad;
2. June's Delicious is stuffed with inspirational recipes, so we have a whole week of experimental, 'healthy' dinners to look forward to;
3. Ana exclusively reveals she's lost 4Lbs this week (as opposed to the £80 I lost at Ocado ho ho!);
4. We've got a table booked at the Brown Dog for Kay's birthday lunch later, and finally
5. Ocado have delivered a fridge full of cheese:


There's six (count them), six different cheeses in there - Leerdamer, Emmental, Cheddar, goat's cheese, cottage cheese and some Port Salut. Bring it on!

Before we can get stuck into the fromage, we have a birthday lunch to deal with, and very good it is too. Ana has courgette risotto, Mike and Kay have roast lamb with yorkshire puddings, I have Dorset Crab and milo splits his time between playing with a beagle puppy called 'Mirabelle' behind us, and fish and chips. It's all very well done, but massively over-priced. Lucky the diets preclude pudding...

Dinner is an infinitely low-key affair with the first of this week's experimental dishes, but it ticks a lot of boxes in anaworld: Halloumi and salad.



It definitely needs crusty bread, or pitta bread as ana thinks, but the combination of basil, olives, capers and roasted peppers scream summer, and it's surprisingly hearty. Deffo a keeper.

Food of the Milos
Not an awful lot for breakfast - toast, grapes and cheese - but for lunch he eats all of his fish (non-battered), and chips at the pub, with gallons of water and juice. More sausages for dinner, this time with broccoli and a left-over white bean polpettine to at least give the illusion of a healthy, balanced diet.

sources
mediterranean halloumi salad - Delicious, June 2010, p24