Pink Grapefruit Avocado Endive Salad

This stunning Pink Grapefruit Avocado Endive Salad is the perfect combination of winter seasonal ingredients and flavours.

I call this salad the ‘anti-salad’ because it’s so refreshing and tasty. Creating salads that taste as good as they looks is one of my passions. Check out this Smoked Cherry Grilled Radicchio Salad or Grilled Peach Burrata Salad for something completely different.

Pink Grapefruit Avocado Endive Salad

I couldn’t believe how long it took me to choke down my last salad. As I chewed those greasy greens…my mouth was basically masticating of it’s own volition with the rest of my body slumped in joyless determination; I felt my mind take over, willing me to just…stop. Sitting there munching mechanically on my less-than-stellar lettuce, grape tomato, and cucumber salad combo that I had topped with one of the nastiest bottled salad dressings, I made a promise to myself: no more quickly thrown together, boring, revolting salads!

A Seasonal Salad in Winter

It’s been a week or two and the pain is still real. That olive oil lime dressing hit the garbage and tried to move on but it’s not that easy. That lettuce is still sitting in the fridge taunting me for a ‘quickie’. Luckily my fridge also contains some brighter, more attractive winter salad ingredients such as pink grapefruit, Belgian endive and always…the unctuous avocado. I know for a fact that this seductive threesome get on really well together and all they would really need is a touch of sweetness and a smidgen of salt to let those flavours really shine.

To Leave it Veg, or to not Leave it Veg

So yeah, I could have totally made this a vegetarian/vegan salad by adding some salty (and visually appealing pistachios) but a girl’s got to have some fun, am I right? Bring on the crispy prosciutto is what I say!

Build Yourself a Pretty Salad, You’re Worth It!

The irony was not lost on me when I realized that it probably took me longer to think about and build this salad today, than it took me to photograph it and eat it. I didn’t mind because eating such a pretty salad, that also tastes wonderful was well worth it. I’m worth it. I am worth more than a ‘quickie’ salad and you are too.

That Flavour Appeal

I know what you’re thinking….that you don’t have time to make this salad, but it’s really not that difficult and you don’t even have to make it as pretty as these ‘food blogger quality’ photos above. In fact I served the leftover ‘odds and ends’ to my family later for dinner; all the loose bits of endive, slightly brown avocado and broken grapefruit. As long as I topped it with the crispy prosciutto and that light and easy dressing…no one said ‘boo’ while they were shovelling it down their throats.

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