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 Reviews, recipes and news from the grapevine Cooking for Kids - Healthy and fun food for all the family. Tasty potato salad Ingredients • 5 potatoes • 5 very thin slices of good quality bacon • 1 cucumber • The juice of 1/2 a lemon • Small green salad leaves such as lamb’s tails, rocket or water cress • 1 fully skimmed natural yoghurt • 2 tablespoons of olive oil • A sprig of fresh mint • A pinch of ground white pepper • Salt  1. Boil the potatoes in their skins in lightly salted water. 2. Wash and drain the salad greens and place to one side covered by a damp cloth. 3. Wash the cucumber and cut into chunks before lightly liquidising. Sprinkle with the lemon juice and put to one side. 4. When the potatoes are cooked and warm but not hot, peel them and cut into slices approximately one centimetre thick. 5. Flash grill the bacon. 6. Place the potatoes on top of the salad greens, interspersing them with pieces of the bacon. 7. Beat the cucumber and lemon mix, adding the oil, the yoghurt, the mint, pepper and a pinch of salt. 8. Pour over the potatoes and serve slightly warm. Nutritional values Vitamin C: 27.73mg/100g RDA: 55-80mg/day Calcium: 70.61mg/100g RDA: 800-1,000mg/day Vitamin B1: 0.22mg/100g RDA: 0.8-1mg/day In the Spanish version, this series of books combines healthy, fun recipes with original short stories to feed the body and the mind. They are highly recommended for anyone who can understand the Spanish language. This is a simple and tasty salad with a mixture of flavours, textures and even temperatures to awaken the palate. As a healthy alternative to the bacon you could use smoked tofu. Peppercorns were the most expensive spice during the Roman Empire and in the 17th century were used as money. Our recipes are translated with the generous permission of the author, Teresa Pérez Hernández, from the superb series of books, La Cocina Encuentada. * Information and images from La Cocina Encuentada – Las cuatro estaciones (in Spanish) by Teresa Pérez Hernández. ISBN 978-84-96509-84-9 (around 12 euros). This article appears in the print edition 610 of Island Connections
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