AVOCADO SALAD WITH RED GRAPEFRUIT AND SHRIMP

I love this salad is easy to make and very tasty.

4 Servings

2 avocados
2 red grapefruits
1/2 pound cooked and peeled shrimps
Lettuce leaves

Peel and cut the avocado in small pieces, arrange on lettuce leaves, alternately with grapefruit sections from which the membrane has been removed and with the shrimps.
Serve with  the following dressing:

1/4 cup Modena vinegar or grapefruit juice

3/4 cup olive oil

salt, pepper

Combine  in a small bowl, if desired the bowl may be rubbed with a cut clove of garlic, or a clove of garlic may be soaked in the dressing until it is use.

Beat these ingredients with a wire whisk until they are well mixed and smooth.

I hope you like it.

ZUCCHINI AND HAM BREAD

I apologize for being  away from the blog for almost a month. I was very busy, but now I am back with a delicious recipe.

This is a savory bread ideal to serve as appetizer. 

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 cup sifted flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 cup olive oil

1/2 cup water at room temperature

3 eggs

2 tbsp finely chopped onion

1 1/2 cup shredded zucchini (only the green part)

2 slices of ham, chopped

2/3 cup shredded Gruyere cheese

1 sprig of each: oregano, thyme, parsley finely chopped, if you don`t have fresh herbs, then use dried. A pinch of each one.

Salt and pepper to taste

Sift the flour with the baking powder.

Beat the eggs for 5 minutes and add the oil.

Add the flour alternating with the water.

Add the remaining ingredients.

Pour into a greased and floured pan.

Bake in moderate oven (350F) for 40 minutes.

Enjoy.