Bachelor Recipe # 4: Salad

Get outta here! Bachelors and salad?

Yes and yes and let's get down to it.

First of all, raw vegetables generally taste better than the cooked version, barring a few exceptions. Try it. Eat a chunk of cabbage or a "flower" of cauliflower raw.

Nothing like boiled garbage, are they?

Secondly, and here's the killer, raw vegetables taste amazing with dressing. No, that doesn't mean you gotta put French Maid uniforms on the little blighters. It means you mix 'em up with a liquid that makes 'em taste amazing.

Thanks to Dalip Daswani, a fellow bachelor, here's a dressing that'll make any salad worthy of being a meal in itself:

First of all, you need a salad, so get as many green thingies as you can and cut them up into slices or chunks. Recommended: Cabbage, Cauliflower, Capsicum, Cucumber (of course!), Onion (of course! again), Lettuce, Beetroot (not green, but okay, let's not get technical.. okay?), Coriander.

Next, make the dressing. Ingredients:
Vinegar - 1 tablespoon
Honey - 1 teaspoon
Salt - a pinch
Pepper - a dash
Butter / cooking oil - half a teaspoon. Personally, I skip this ingredient because oil and honey in combo always give me terrible stomach cramps. So use with caution.

Put the dressing ingredients into a bowl and mix them up in total attack mode. That means you should appear to be wrestling with a pig to anyone who casually observes you. Why they should observe you, casually or deliberately, I leave to your personal magnetism.

Pour the dressing over the sliced / chunked vegetables. Mix thoroughly with a tablespoon or take the bachelor's shortcut and do the following:

• Dump everything into something with a lid and shut the lid
• Shake it all about
• Do the Boogie-Woogie

Now that we have dispensed with the silly jokes, taste the salad.

And say "thank you" to Dalip Daswani.

Deepak