It’s been a lovely weekend in my household. We are buzzed with excitement! We are going to adopt a rescued cat whom we’ve decided to name Gene Hunt after my husband Laurie’s TV hero. He still has to stay at the animal shelter for another week to clear his health bill before he can go to his forever home with us. Many may say he is not the best looking cat out there but boy, do I tell you, he’s one cool tough kitty. More on this later.
We spent the afternoon visiting Gene at the cat shelter then watching Marvel’s The Avengers which I totally loved. Even though the weather has been a bit gross Laurie and I still had such a good time. On days like this I always think of one of my favourite songs – Lou Reed’s Perfect Day. It’s a slow & sweet melody that tastes like its words, “sangria in the park”. Lou Reed wrote a few songs that I could listen to any time, any day, no matter how many times; songs whose every lines I feel I could understand completely his under meaning.
Sometimes I like to imagine if we interpret a song into food (because I can be silly like that), which dish a song would be. And since I thought of Perfect Day today, I made a sweet & heart-warming salad with so subtle a hint of melancholy. Or not. Maybe there is no dish that could be as beautiful as the song, but there you go – I’ve tried.
1 lemon
1 table spoon of olive oil
1 tea spoon of honey
Salt & pepper
For the salad:
Some halloumi cheese, cut into thick slices
1/2 Granny Smith apple
Mixed leaves (ideally with some rocket)
1/3 cucumber
1 tomato
1 shallot
Slice the shallot very thinly then put in the dressing to marinade while you prepare the salad.
Cut cucumber, tomato & apple into thin slices then put on a bed of leaves.
Grill halloumi cheese slices on a griddle and put on top of your salad, finish with honey lemon dressing on top.











