The main reason is I hate salad. I also suspect that women who say they like it are liars. To me it was an 80's invention engineered to make women feel bad about themselves. Indeed it is a conspiracy used to fill them with false hope that they might end up with a body like Cindy Crawford's after a couple of tomatoes and lettuce leaf.
But this salad is different. Its incredibly moreish if you like sweet, salty, spicy, crunchy things. And let's face it who doesn't?
Also I've been reliably informed by my vegetarian flatmate, who when she's not giving out interesting bits of information, can be found scouring the shelves at Holland and Barratt, that carrots contain Vitamin A and Beta-Carotene. Good news for the eyes and the skin!
So here we go, this is my attempt at a Japanese Carrot Salad.
The recipe is by Allegra McEvedy and it can be found in The Guardian, here - http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2007/apr/18/foodanddrink.recipe
(I didn't bother to toast the cashew nuts. You can if you want. I was just too busy reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex)
Image by Dora Petherbridge
And here's the obligatory flash-photography shot. No food blog post should be without one ...
Image by Dora Petherbridge
