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A Simple Spring Salmon Dinner Menu

From a crisp artichoke starter, to a healthy salmon salad and a gorgeous rhubarb cake, dinner is alive with the colours and tastes of the season.
Crunch artichokes with creamy lemon dip recipe and minty gin and tonic cocktail

(Photo: Michael Alberstat)

In anticipation of the fresh, local produce that will soon be gracing the market tables, we're putting together a menu starring a few seasonal favourites! From a crisp artichoke starter, to a healthy salmon salad and a gorgeous rhubarb tea cake, tonight dinner is alive with the colours and tastes of the season.

Crunch artichokes with creamy lemon dip recipe and minty gin and tonic cocktailCrunchy artichokes with a minty gin and tonic.
Photo, Roberto Caruso.

Appetizer and cocktail
Gin and tonic  

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crispy artichokes
Crisply coated artichokes meet a zesty lemon and sour cream dip in this simple starter. Add a little springtime fizz, and mix up a few minty G&Ts.

Main
Seared-salmon salad with ruby red grapefruit
Loaded with healthy and colourful ingredients, this filling salad gets an extra pop of flavour from a light grapefruit and dill vinaigrette.

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An overhead shot of a Rhubarb-buttermilk tea cake loaf, with white glazing, with two slices cut off it, on a white cutting board on a light blue background with a bowl of vanilla ice cream above it and two forks to one side(Photo: Roberto Caruso)
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Dessert 
Rhubarb-buttermilk tea cake
Crunchy pecans and tangy rhubarb make this moist banana-bread alternative addictively good.

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