Recipe War Week #2: Fucking Salad

OK. PhysioProf got his sorry ass handed to him on a fucking platter by vicious competitor Isis in the first battle of the Recipe War. Well, PhysioProf learns from his fuck-ups, and this week he is back with a vengeance. For the salad course, PhysioProf has prepared a duo of salads: seafood salad and arugula, watermelon, pine nuts, and goat cheese salad. Photographs and recipes are inside the crack. (YES! PhysioProf cooked the motherfucking shit!!)

Voting site is here, and my worthy competitor’s recipe is here.

Seafood Salad

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Ingredients

shrimp (large in shell)
calamari (cleaned)
octopus (good-sized leg, cleaned)
pimento-stuffed green olives
purple onion
parsley
capers
celery
lemon
extra virgin olive oil
salt
fresh ground black pepper

How to make the shit

(1) Boil the shrimp until done, just a minute or two, and then shell and clean. Slice the squid into rings and legs, and then boil until done, also just a couple minutes. (If you fuck up and overcook the squid and it turns to rubber, then you can just simmer it for at least 30 minutes, and it’ll get tender again.) Throw the octopus leg into boiling water, and then reduce to a simmer and cook until the octopus is tender. It’ll take at least an hour. Slice the leg perpendicular to the long axis.

(2) Mix in with the cooked seafood some pimento-stuffed green olives, thin slices of raw celery, capers, and chopped parsley and purple onion.

(3) Squeeze lemon through a cheese cloth onto the mixture, and pour on some extra virgin olive oil. Add salt and fresh-ground black pepper to taste, and then gently toss.

(4) Serve in a radicchio leaf, arranging the shrimp nicely around the outside. The radicchio will absorb the flavors, and must be eaten as well.

Arugula, Watermelon, Pine Nuts, and Goat Cheese Salad

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Ingredients

arugula
watermelon
pine nuts
goat cheese
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
fresh-ground black pepper

How to make the shit

(1) Rinse and dry the arugula. Slice the watermelon into little squares. Crumble the goat cheese.

(2) Mix the vinegar and salt with a whisk. Add the oil and whisk. Add ground black pepper to taste, and more salt if needed. This is now balsamic vinaigrette.

(3) Place some arugula leaves inside the bottom of a radicchio cup. Put in watermelon squares, pine nuts, and crumbled goat cheese.

(4) Drizzle balsamic vinaigrette on top. As above, eat the radicchio, too.

Final Presentation

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Put the two salads in their respective radicchio cups side-by-side on a plate, and garnish with pomegranate seeds. EAT!!

Voting site is here, and my worthy competitor’s recipe is here.