3 Top Tomato recipes...
by H Jeffers

Tomatoes are a great vegetable, and available all year around. We have some great ways to spice up the humble vegetable into a tasty snack or meal. These recipes are bought to you by www.helensrecipes.com.

by Manivan Larprom

The most popular salad of Thailand and Laos is the Green Papaya salad. On the first bite, your tongue should taste extreme heat, salt, and sour all at once. The taste is invigorating!

by Justine van Zyl

Chickpeas, beans, olives, onions, tomatoes - you'll find numerous combinations of these vegetables in many of the countries that fringe the Mediterranean Sea.

And anyone looking for great vegetarian recipes could do a lot worse than to look these countries where vegetarianism was often forced on the populace by the high cost and relative scarcity of meat, rather than by dietary conviction.

by Susan Ely

I lived in central Florida for fifteen long, hot years. This northern girl literally wilted on the vine there. I just could not adapt to the heat. My biggest complaint was that for some reason Florida was no longer regarded as a tropical climate, at least not when it came to business clothing. Whereas previously, a loose cotton or linen guayabera was the obvious and acceptable choice for the blistering weather, nowadays it could be a hundred degrees outside and yet everyone swelters in a suit. I don’t get it. Who is making these rules?

This is a contemporary salad which has actually been around for quite a while now and we regularly prepare it as part of our cooking holiday in France. I think it has achieved classic status.

The only thing that needs any preparation to speak of is the dressing, but the pears do need to be ripe and juicy – comice are perfect for this – and the parmesan needs to be shaved from a fresh block (if you haven’t got any to hand, a good strong cheese like stilton or feta will do very nicely indeed, but completely forget about using that dirty sock-flavoured sawdust sold in pots, laughingly labelled ‘Freshly Grated Parmesan’).