Nigel Slater’s easygoing ready-when-you-are salad recipes

Flexible dishes, delicious as soon as they’re prepared, equally good after a restful pauseThe most useful of recipes are those that do not demand our punctuality at the table. They carry with them a sense of ease, allowing them to be eaten at our pace rather than theirs. So you can pounce on them the moment they are made (that spirit of urgency to tuck in), but they are also happy to sit for a little while without losing anything in terms of flavour or, perhaps more essentially, texture.Th