Macadamia Nut Salad
by Cynthia Sin-Yi Cheng
April 29th, 2008
Clara Confections
Neiman Marcus
Ala Moana Center
1450 Ala Moana Blvd
Honolulu, Hawaii
808-951-8887
Dean & Deluca
560 B’way
@ Prince St
212-226-6800
Union Square Greenmarket
14th St & B’way
Mon, Wed, Fri & Sat: 8 am to 6 pm (hours vary seasonally)
While Celia brought back an ample supply of Portuguese sausage from Hawaii last week, I brought back just a box of plump macadamia nuts from Clara Confections for my cocktail-hour snack. But yesterday, while looking for walnut oil at Dean & Deluca, I found some macadamia nut oil (Brookfarm; $13) from Australia instead. This inspired me to whip up a fresh salad from the superb mesclun greens I had picked up at Union Square that morning. I dressed my simple salad with the nut oil and fresh squeezed lemon juice, seasoned with a dash of salt and pepper. Then I crushed some macadamia nuts and tossed them with the salad. The nuts have a sweetness to them that I can only express in Hawaiian terms, onolicious!
P.S. I did end up getting some of Celia’s Portuguese sausage, and it inspired my own interpretation of a fried rice with broccoli rabe and P. sausage — equally satisfying my nostalgia for the foods we grew up on in Hawaii.
