Iranian Salad

this was tasty. then I died of too much garlic.

This was the only thing I made for the Iranian dinner. It was probably the worst thing there and that was because of my overeager use of garlic. I forgot that garlic is incredibly potent and sometimes lethal. It was painful. Never again. Before I added the garlic the salad was actually amazing, so just don’t add too much garlic.

This kind of salad actually is very good so I recommend trying it. Just learn from my mistakes. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

• two alarmingly large cucumbers
• two rather large tomatoes
• one red onion (blanched)
• 1 clove of garlic (BUT NOT TOO MUCH use your good judgement)
• about 2 tablespoons olive oil
• salt and pepper
• a couple sprigs of parsley (if you have it)
• cheese (it would be best if it were Bulgarian, but Feta is good too because I don’t think there is a difference)

Directions:

1. Cut the cucumbers into tiny pieces
   
2. Cut the tomatoes into tiny pieces
   
3. Cut the onion into tiny pieces
4. Cut the garlic into tiny pieces
5. Add the cucumbers and tomatoes to a bowl
   
6. To make the onions taste less strong/red onion-y you can pour boiled water over them and the flavor will be less intrusive and horrible, but if you like that then do what you want.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. Put the onions in the bowl, too. And the garlic
8. Add olive oil
9. Add salt and pepper
10. If you like parsley you can cut it up and put it in there, if not then don’t.
11. Now add a lot of crumbled cheese.
12. Now you can eat it.