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by Melanie Cheeks on 18 Apr 2013, 10:26
I'd hoped to have Thursday as my second fast day, but darling daughter is over from her London college this week, and was keen to go out to dinner on Thusrday night. That left Wednesday - but that was the day I was taking off work to drive daughter and friends up to the North Coast to visit my parents. Ah well, great excuse to avoid my mother's cooking!
I made sure I had plenty of water for the drive, even though daughter purloined my emergency orange! Lunch was homemade vegetable soup - I passed on the wheaten bread and cheese, as well as the smoked salmon and crisps nibbles, but did allow myselef one small traybake. And one fudge Heroes. And a quality street toffee stick on the journey home.
For dinner I rustled up a rather fabulous gourmet salad. I've been experiementing with quark ever since reading a discussion about it and fromage frais on MFP. I've previously used a Jamie 15 minute recipe for a lighter ceasar salad dressing using yoghurt, so I decided to adapt that for quark.
In a bowl, mash 2 anchovies. Stir in 2 good blobs of quark, and season with black pepper.
Arrange quartered artichoke hearts and thick slices of cucumber on the dressing. Sprinkle with cress.
The contrast of textures is lovely - the solid earthiness of the artichokes against the crisp cool crunch of the cucumber, in the velvety creaminess of the dressing, with a slight tang, and a hum provided by the anchovies. All for under 100 calories.