March 1, 2007: Grape and haloumi salad
Fried haloumi is a much-loved and semi-regular treat in this house. We sometimes make sandwiches with it, but just as often grab whatever salad ingredients we can find and plonk the haloumi on top, dousing the lot with lemon juice and black pepper. However this week, in one of the cookbooks bequeathed to us by Krusty and Jason, I discovered an actual recipe for a haloumi salad, with grapes no less! While this is a combination I'd never considered before, something about it just fit - I could imagine the juicy flesh of the grapes and the sour/bitter skin holding its own against the salty, oily cheese. Unfortunately I decided that this would be Thursday night's dinner only after I got to work, so I devised a shopping list without the recipe at hand. Haloumi, two kinds of grapes and a bunch of green leaves were all I recalled from the picture and the text was a complete blank. Although I knew they weren't part of the recipe, I thought some garlicky croutons would add anot...