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Catholic Recipe: Salata de Cartofi (Greek Potato and Olive Salad)

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 lb cold boiled potatoes
  • 1 bunch spring onions
  • 1/4 cup black olives
  • 1/4 cup green olives
  • 3 hard boiled eggs
  • 1 small washed lettuce, shredded 

    Dressing:

  • 2 Tbsp. water
  • 1 tsp. castor (table) sugar
  • 3 tsp. vinegar
  • olive oil

Details

Serves: 4

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Difficulty:  ★★☆☆

Cost:  ★★☆☆

For Ages: 11+

Origin: Romania

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This salad goes particularly well with lamb, which is a traditional dish in many places at Easter. It could be served with the Greek Easter Lamb dish, leaving out the sliced potatoes.

DIRECTIONS

1. Slice the potatoes. Chop the onions and cut the eggs into wedges. Mix together with the olives and lettuce.

2. Mix the water, sugar and vinegar together and toss the salad in it.

3. Sprinkle liberally with olive oil.

Recipe Source: Feasting for Festivals by Jan Wilson, Lion Publishing Corporation, Batavia, Illinois, 1990
Fri18 July
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Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Camillus de Lellis, Priest (USA)

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1641). Camillus suffered an incurable wound in his foot, experienced the horrors of the Roman hospitals in the sixteenth century in which the nursing and other staff were drawn from the dregs of the population. He effected a great…

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