Toss the cut
endives, pine nuts, strawberries, and Roquefort and arrange them in the
endive shell, Drizzle the dressing over the salad, and serve.
Other common mesclun ingredients include chicory, an
endive relative, and mustards,,as well as watercress, kale, and arugula (roquette).
Place dressed
endive leaves neatly on the plate with three slices of black pudding around.
Madame Gabillet loved Belgian
endive (and luckily, as I discovered, so did I).
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Pile a little of the mixture into some
endive and little gem lettuce leaves.
Leafy veg, such as
endive, watercress, collard and dandelion leaves, also keep the liver healthy by encouraging the bile to flow.
Cook for 30 minutes and eat straight away with a salad - for example spinach, walnut and
endive salad with a tart lemon dressing Note to self - remember to brush hair.
Endive or chicory is one those grown up salads that can be treated as a vegetable.
MAKE a final sowing of spring cabbage, Chinese cabbage,
endive, winter spinach and turnips, which are grown for their green tops.
Divide the
endive leaves between four plates and arrange the grapefruit segments, sugar snap peas and prawns over the salad.