Apple, brie and cobnut salad

I'm on a diet.

Well, sort of.  I've cut down on carbohydrates - particularly at lunchtimes, and I've stopped drinking (Monday to Thursday only!).  And it seems to be working - I've lost about 6lbs so far.  I don't know how long it will last,  but the belly is disappearing.

The problem with cutting lunchtime carbs is in knowing what to replace them with - particularly during the working week.  I've been eating a lot of salads and I was quite pleased with this one in particular.

Perhaps I should have found an alternative cheese to the brie, as everything else came from the UK.  In particular, the cobnuts come from Kent and the Egremont Russet apple from a village just up the road.  I love Russets - I love the crunch, the toughness of the skin and that unique nutty aroma they have.
Interestingly, I just learned from Wikipedia (so it may be untrue) that 'russeting' refers to that roughness of skin rather than anything else.

So to my salad - just a mix of torn cos lettuce, chopped tomato, sliced celery, diced cucumber, chopped Egremont Russet apple, a handful of shelled and halved cobnuts and a few slices of ripe brie sort of cut/torn/smeared into pieces. The salad was dressed with a mix of cider vinegar, olive oil and a whiff of hazlenut oil.  It beats a soggy egg-mayo sandwich from the supermarket any day!

tags: cheese  apple  salad  cobnuts  

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