"The garden of Adone": erotic
seduction salad.
("Il giardino di Adone": insalata della seduzione erotica)
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Ingredients, their properties and
characteristics:
- A) The dressing:
flavoured vinegar of red wine (the colour of "eros")
extra virgin (what's more exciting than virginity?) olive oil (you can
prepare one bottle of vinegar and one bottle of oil and use them any
time you need them); table salt.
Vinegar: remove some vinegar from the bottle and put inside, to marinate
at least one week and shaking twice a day, 10 leaves of basil, two small
branches of rosemary, 10 leaves of sage.
Oil: remove some oil from the bottle and put inside, to marinate at
least one week and shaking twice a day, 3 peeled and beaten garlic cloves,
3 crumbled hot chilli peppers (diavolicchi). These maceration of aromatic
herbs in dressings have the aim to render them tasty and to integrate
their natural qualities as to transform them in a whole which results:
intestinal antiseptic; cardiotonic; "corticosurrenale" stimulant.
The perfect whole for this salad!
- B) The salads:
lettuce, white "grumolo" cut into very thin strips (sweet,
milky/frigid, damp)
lattughino" - the entire small leaves (sweet, sour, milky/frigid,
temperate damp)
curly endive - the white leaves finely cut (bitter, milky/cold, damp)
'smerlato" - the cut leaves (bitter/cold, dry)
chicory - the new leaves cut, but just a little bit (bitter/frigid,
dry).
- C) The herbs:
"spinacina" - the entire leaves (fat herb, prickly/cold, dry)
"acetosa" - the cut leaves (persuasive/frigid, dry)
"borragine" - the cut leaves (particular, cucumber - like/hot,
damp)
"carciofina" - the cut leaves (bitter, sour/hot, dry)
"ruchetta" - the entire leaves (spicy, aromatic, sour/warm,
dry).
- D) The seasoning:
"dragoncello" - the entire leaves (characteristic, strong,
prickly/hot, dry)
"aneto" - the leaves of soft small branches (characteristic,
sweet-sour, anise-like/hot, dry)
"salvastrella" - the small leave and the tender small branches
(sour, hot, dry)
lemon balm - the entire leaves (lavender-like, sweet, prickly, intense/hot,
dry)
mint - the entire leaves (characteristic, intense/hot, dry).
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Take
some appropriate salad bowls, one for each table companions, and put inside
them, layer on layer, in the order they have been mentioned (starting, of
course, from point A) on the bottom of the salad bowl), the salads, herbs
and seasoning, positioning them with care and softly, in order to have each
layer redundant and with the borders not perfectly defined. Then take a
small bowl and put inside 2 small spoons of salt, 8-9 spoons of aromatic
vinegar and, with a fork, beat very well until all the salt will be completely
melted. Then with a spoon, sprinkle uniformly with this stuff the various
salad bowls. Let marinate these salad compositions for about 4-5 minutes
and then dress each salad bowl with a reasonable amount of aromatic oil
and serve. This kind of salad should not be turned, it must be eaten in
a vertical sequence, starting from the mint (seasoning) to the lettuce,
following the vegetable itinerary of Adone (the ancient, mythical Greek
god) in the passing by his myth. The myth of the erotic seduction. |
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