I usually find salads to be boring. Flavorless lettuce and tomatoes in plastic packaging does not inspire me in any way. However, when I have access to interesting fresh vegetables, I find a way to make exciting salads. Lunch the other day is a good example. Because of the long list of unusual ingredients, I am calling it my “Off-the-Wall Salad”.

One of the keys to this dish is that the raw beets and kohlrabi were sliced in fine julienne style with this mandolin device, an extremely useful piece of kitchen equipment.

To complete the “Off-the-Wall-ness” of the meal, I selected a delicious Georgian wine with 30% skin contact, Tsolikouri. The antithesis of “boring”.