Study Party Salad

Party for one?
So it's the end of uni and I'm studying for exams. Here's the latest salad I whipped up during the period. Apart from this, sadly Subway has been my only source of fuel this exam period.

Hey you have serious hayfever and try studying. There's waayyy too much tension. WHEN WILL I JUST SNEEZE?

Anyway....

Ingredients:

Capsicum
Lettuce
Sesame seeds
Sunflower seeds
Carrots
Avocado
Cucumber
Fig Dressing

How quick can you:

1. Cut up
2. Drizzle a bit of fig dressing on top. I used Collitali which my sister demanded my mother buy while in Italy because it is so amazing. But yeah, it's pretty amazing and the perfect flavour to lift the dull salad up....like a lot.
3. Chuck it. Mix it. Shake it.

'Shake it up. Shake it up.'
                    -Taylor Swift when making the salad up in the kitchen after we were baking it up.

How quick did I do?
Too quick. Like woaaahhhh. What was that?

Ok let's be honest. Was it good?
I ate it pretty quick so I don't know. Like yeah. Exactly what I need and almost way to refreshing.

Aren't You Tarra-gonna Teach Me How to Make That Salad?

Ingredients:

Cheese Scone
Tarragon Mustard Mayonnaise
Celery
Peppadew
Fusilli Pasta
Cheese (Feta is perff but any smooth and not too flavourful is good)
Capsicum
Red Onion
Lettuce

How quick can you:

1. Cut scone into crouton sized pieces. Or use croutons. I don't really care.
2. Dice vegetables to whatever you like. Again, I don't care. But small is good. 
3. Boil pasta and add sauce and what not but I actually bought the tarragon mustard mayonnaise pasta half price from Wishbone. Whoops. Home-made fail. (I also took the cheese scone from work, Sue me.)
4. Stuff peppadews with feta and chuck it in (Unless you're like me and eat it all before you finish making the salad and force it down your parent's gobs too so they can share in the joy)

'Mix it all together and you know that it's the best of both worlds'
                                                                             -Miley Cyrus in regards to my salad.

How quick did I do?
I genuinely got home, chucked it in and was done. But I didn't boil the pasta because I am lazy so like whatever.

Ok let's be honest. Was it good?
I'll let Tessa be the judge of that. 

(It was good. Very good. Peppadews were 5 stars.
Tessa loved it.)

Sweet Treat

Ingredients:

Banana
Nutella
Margarine
Berries
Rye Bread

How quick can you:

1. It's a sandwich!
2. Toast bread
3. Spread on the spreads
4. Cut up the fruits and chuck it in.
5. Done,

Simple.

How quick did I do?
Almost too quickly.

Ok let's be honest. Was it good?
Simpy delicious. But sweet so if you want something savoury, don't eat Nutella you genius.

Get studying or die trying.

Morrocan or Mexican? Or How About A Weird Fusion?

Ingredients:

Soy and Lindseed Bread
Avocado
Capsicum
Cheese
Onions
Sesame Seeds
Almonds
Fajita mix spices

How quick can you:

1. Heat oil on stove with around a tablespoon of fajita spices. Slice onions into large pieces and when oil is reasonably hot, chuck into pan and leave to go soft. Or crunchy, I don't know how you like your onions. But remember that the onions will shrink in size when cooking so cook a little bit more than you actually want. Add capsicum a bit later (But I wanted a bit of a crunch. If you like yours soft, do it earlier)
2. Then add the sliced almonds and sesame seeds near the very end of the cooking, just to marinade a bit in the leftover flavour but not to kill it's nutty taste.
3. Toast soy and lindseed bread then cut into bit size pieces
4. Cut a hard avocado into squares

Layer the stuff to make sure all delicious elements are visible so you can fool your friends into thinking the toast bread is chicken. I don't understand how they see it. Have you seen chicken? DOES IT HAVE SEEDS IN IT?

How quick did I do?
Everything was reasonably quick but I paused for like 20 minutes to wait for my phone to charge so I could take pictures and also cater to my finger which I sliced while cutting capsicum. And I was distracted by 60 minutes....again....

Ok let's be honest. Was it good?
I'm a very modest person, so yeah it was good. I ate it pretty quickly. But it isn't a super fresh salad, It's more like a really good dissected sandwich.

Green, green, green. The world is green.
Grass.

D.O.A

Not wanted Dead or Alive but Dark Olive Avocado.

Ingredients:
Carrot
Wholemeal Pita Bread
Cheese
Avocado
Sesame seeds
Sunflower seeds
Walnuts
Black Olives
Dark Chocolate
Apple

How quick can you:

1. Toast Pita bread with cheese and sliced olives inside to get it all nice and melted.
2. Chunky chunky cut avocado.
3. Finely slice the apples
4. Sprinkle seeds and nuts that a chopped small on top like love.

Layer the stuff and work it bcoz u r u & u r fab-u-lous.

How quick did I do?
Like quick. Or maybe I'm getting faster. Money. $

Ok let's be honest. Was it good?
Yes but no olives. Ever. What was I thinking. Am I dumb? Are you dumb? What is dumb?
Ok I'll stop now... But you could replace it with orange but I may be pushing it....

I know what you're thinking, the pictures got worse. I WILL FIX THIS!

The Nutty Projuicer

Ingredients:
Carrot
Wholemeal Pita Bread
Cheese
Avocado
Apples
Oranges
Sunflower seeds
Walnuts
(I didn't have pine nuts but I reckon they'd work a charm and finely sliced almond)

How quick can you:

1. Toast Pita bread with cheese inside to get it all nice and melted.
2. Cut zee avocado into chunks
3. Cut oranges into bit sized pieces and finely slice apples.
4. Cut walnuts into small pieces.
5. Shower the seeds on top like fairy dust in the salad.

Layer the stuff to make sure all delicious elements are visible so you can see what you're eating when you peer into the side of your container. But always make sure the bread is at the top as it can absorb juices and prevent juice leakage.

That tungsten lighting though

How quick did I do?
Dem apples are hard to finely slice with skin so slippery. But I was in bed soon enough.

Ok let's be honest. Was it good?
YUMMMOO. Definitely the freshest tasting out of all, so definitely one for when you need a burst of flavour but do not want to feel guilty at all. And if you feel guilty way too easily, ditch the cheese -but seriously hun, this is a health dream come true.

Mighty fine, all the time (My pictures improved!)
Look at how fresh it looks!
I do not deal!

Oh You Sweet Savoury Thang

Ingredients:

Carrot
Wholemeal Tortilla
Avocado
Tomato
Salt and Pepper
Onions
Brown Sugar

How quick can you:

1. Heat oil on stove with around a teaspoon of raw sugar. Slice onions into large pieces and when oil is reasonably hot, chuck into the pan and leave to soften. Or crunchy, I don't know how you like your onions. But remember that the onions will shrink in size when cooking so cook a little bit more than you actually want.
2. Toast Tortilla bread then cut into bite size pieces
3. Make the Guacamole.
   Use: soft avocado, hard tomato with none of the watery parts, finely chopped onions and salt and pepper to season to liking.
4. Finely slice some carrots so you don't sound as loud as a cow when you eat and so you don't have awkward chunks of carrots that hide all the other flavours.

Layer the stuff to make all delicious elements visible so you can rub how delicious your food is to your friends. This was definitely a winner.

How quick did I do?
Everything was reasonably quick but the onions did take a while to cook. And I was distracted by 60 minutes. Jimmy Barnes is interesting.

Ok let's be honest. Was it good?
Oh it was.

Still not instagram quality. Don't worry, we'll get there.

The Mediterranean Bunch

Ingredients:
Carrot
Wholemeal Pita Bread
Cheese
Avocado
Tomato
Salt and Pepper
Onion
Sundried Tomatoes
Olives

How quick can you:

1. Toast Pita bread with cheese inside to get it all nice and melted.
2. Make the Guacamole.
   Use: soft avocado, hard tomato with none of the watery parts, finely chopped onions and salt and pepper to season to liking.
3. Slice carrots into fine strips
4. Chop sundried tomatoes and olives and chuck on top.

Layer the stuff to make sure all delicious elements are visible so salt is visible in different forms for everyone!

How quick did I do?
Depends how quick you can chop. Are you a 5 yr old or a Japanese chef?

Ok let's be honest. Was it good?
For me, it was good at first but I can handle too much salt and get chest pains easily, so it got a bit too much after a while. If I were to do this recipe again, I'd definitely choose to have only the sun-dried tomatoes or the olives and would not have salt in the guacamole. And it didn't mix well with my soy latte.

Oh yeah...photos will improve..

Its midnight

and you remember you have work/uni tomorrow. Oh great. I really don't want to buy something and I'll try to keep it healthy-ok maybe not healthy but I'd like to control what's in my lunch.

WELL I'm here to say 'yo, I know the feels.'

So here's what I whip up, chuck in the fridge and grab in the morning right before I run after my bus.
Why yes, I am a delicate, angelic morning bird.

Enjoy x