Salads are an all-year-round affair, and their flavour and appearance is limited only by your imagination and taste preferences. They can be the perfect summer lunch, too, with a nice crisp white wine or one of the increasing range of refreshing rosé wines available. Once, salad was defined by a combination based on lettuce, tomato, egg and spring onion, but nowadays there are amazing salad combinations of fruits and vegetables that may not include any of those traditional ingredients.