The idea of me presenting this salad to you like this is to give you the general philosophy behind creating a great, great salad so you can start making your own. There are no rules, just start picking and mixing. Even using just 3 or 4 ingredients will give you a salad that rocks.

Ingredients

• • a soft ingredient
• • a crunchy ingredient
• • a herby ingredient
• • a veg
• • a cheese
• • a topping
• • your favourite dressing
• • sea salt and black pepper

To make your pick-and-mix salad

• Choose an ingredient from each
• Wash and spin dry the soft and crunchy leaves
• Pick the herby leaves off their stalks, discarding the stalks
• Finely slice or peel the veg and shave, tear or crumble up the cheese
• Toss everything together in a large bowl
• Dress simply with your favourite salad dressing and season with a good pinch of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, if needed
• Divide the salad between your serving bowls and sprinkle over your chosen topping

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