Pink Dawn Salad

Hello friends!  Today we are talking Thai.  I love Thai food in general but I absolutely love Thai salads – my favourite is green papaya or green mango salad but a Thai beef salad or a banana blossom salad are also fine by me. I love their freshness and zing!  So I had high hopes for a Thai inspired salad with a lovely name –  Pink Dawn Salad. This comes from Good Housekeepings World Cookery (1972). Imagine this as a salad –  the perfect mix of colours becoming the perfect Thai mix of sweet, salt, hot and sour!

Gorgeous huh?  And now that I’ve set your expectations….let’s take a look at the salad.  I mean, I knew from the ingredients that it was not going to be a typical Thai salad but it was definitely touted as such by the press back in the 1970’s.  I found an article from back in 1978 in the Vancouver Sun that contains this same recipe which certainly implies if not downright states that this is an authentic Thai Salad.  Anyway, here it is…

Hmm…not great is it?

There was nothing wrong with the Pink Dawn Salad.  I like eggs, tomatoes and prawns.  I’m not that keen on bananas but Holy likes them…

Between the two of us, we ate it all. It was just…meh.  Boring…bland…not really cohesive. Not a bit Thai. And only marginally pink.

I’m calling a fail on the Pink Dawn Salad – the great name did not equate to great flavour.  And I had to skin tomatoes which is something I find weirdly repulsive.

Pink Dawn Salad – The Recipe

Here it is…although I  can’t recommend that you give it a try.

If you are looking for a good Thai salad, I made a Crisp Chilli Whitebait and Green Mango Salad from Australian Gourmet Traveller a few days ago and it was heaven!!!!  It was actually this on a plate! Recipe here:  https://www.gourmettraveller.com.au/recipe/mains/crisp-chilli-whitebait-and-green-mango-salad-10838/

Have a great week!