Warm feta and grilled vegetable salad

This is an incredibly tasty and surprisingly filling warm salad. It doesn't sound much , but it's fine for a main meal. I've served it at small dinner parties but it's best for just a couple of people--good date-type food (but swap the asparagus if that's your plan...!).

• Depends on your taste--feel free to swap the veg around. But typically:
• A swig of olive oil
• A clove or three of garlic
• An aubergine
• A red or yellow pepper
• Some asparagus
• A block of feta cheese
• Crispyish leaves--maybe romaine lettuce
• Some balsamic vinegar
• Salt and pepper
• Something to serve it with: pitta bread's good; salty roast new potatoes are too, and more substantial. Depends what you're up for.

Slice the aubergine. Cut the pepper into 8ths.
Rinse and put in a salad bowl.

In a glass, mix a swig of olive oil with a couple of cloves of crushed garlic (to taste). Pour the whole lot over the veg and stir well.

Put all the veg under the grill. You'll want the asparagus in the cooler part of the grill, and just generally watch to make sure everything gets a bit brown and not (too) burned. Turn stuff over as you see fit.

Place the feta on some tin foil before putting under the grill about 3-5 mins before everything's going to be done.

While stuff's grilling, take leaves and green stuff of your choice and stir round in the salad bowl. Slosh the balsamic vinegar over it, and add some salt and pepper. Add more oil if the bowl's very dry, but bear in mind that the veg will be oily.

When everything's done, bung it in the bowl and stir it round. Let the feta crumble and disperse.

Serve immediately, perhaps with some pitta bread.

Yum.

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