Recently I’ve had relatively little time to dedicate to blogging or cooking – I’ve been working and writing my CV. In fact all I’ve managed to prepare in the past couple of days has been an extremely simple yet fantastically tasty egg and rocket salad. I think simple food is sometimes the best – meals which really show off individual flavours well. The important thing to remember is that you want to showcase the taste of every individual ingredient, so you don’t want to use a flavour which is going to overpower the others. So when making this salad it’s probably best only to use a small squeeze of lemon juice because otherwise you’ll find that it’ll dominate the dish rather than improve it. From a cooking perspective make sure the poached egg is runny inside as it forms an integral part of the salad dressing.

This will be my last post for a few days as I’m going to visit my lovely girlfriend. However, although I won’t be able to blog I’ll be taking my trusty camera with me in order to snap any frugal dishes which may be created on my travels. To be honest this will probably happen every night because I’ve been told that her family are sick of cooking – they want their resident chef back!

Anyway I hope you enjoy this delightful and extremely simple and healthy salad as much as I did – it was simply delicious.

Egg and Rocket Salad {recipe}

Serves 1

Ingredients:

• 1 egg
• A handful of rocket
• A few cherry tomatoes
• Squeeze of lemon juice
• Olive oil

Method:

1. In order to poach your egg heat some water in a pan until just boiling, crack the egg in and a cook for a few minutes. As I said above try not to overcook it so the yolk becomes hard. Place a handful of rocket in a bowl, drizzle some oil over the top and add a squeeze of lemon juice. Add some tomatoes chopped in half to the salad and place the cooked egg on top. Finish off by seasoning.

Cost: This whole salad will cost no more than 70p to make, and even less if you keep your own chickens like we do! Never has 70p tasted so good!