Sweet summer peach, nutty walnut and silky tofu it doesn’t get any better than that.

Summer peach, winter walnut and silky tofu it doesn’t get any better than that.

This summer peach salad is hearty enough to keep you bicycling and sweet enough to keep you happy.

Peaches, especially golden cling-stone peaches, are one of summer’s best offerings and they are amazing for your skin, either eaten or used directly on the face.

Salad Ingredients: (serves one or two)

– One cling-stone/golden peach

– 15 Walnuts

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Pomegranate is magic in your mouth if you know the secret salad ingredients.

I have no idea how this salad ended up so good, but believe me it’s amazing!

The inspiration was a Pomegranate that my boyfriend insisted on buying, but which I knew he’d never get around to actually using, and some very old tomatoes that needed to be eaten or thrown out!

New and unusual ingredients, like Pomegranates, can just be a pain in a bicycle-babe’s butt to deal with when you don’t have any recipes for them, or you aren’t familiar with the flavour.

I make my best salads when I’m rushed, nothing has been planned and the fridge is empty save for a bunch of ridiculously random ingredients.

This salad starts with a basic red and green lettuce base and gets more interesting,  and utterly tasty, with each addition.

The strong sweet of the Fuyu persimmon with the garlic makes for a zingy mix, and the coconut oil and nuts give the whole dish a soft nutty flavour.

Salad:
Red Lettuce chopped fine (4 leaves)Green lettuce chopped fine (4 leaves)
Corriander chopped fine (hand full)
Lebanese Cucumber diced (1/2)
Fuyu Persimmon (x 1 firm &