Wild rice is a nutty, chewy and absolutely delicious grain that is very much worth your time and attention. As is this tasty summer salad!

If you’ve got slowed roast tomatoes, grilled zucchinis and squash the culinary world is your oyster.

This salad is light, zingy and very summery. I’d serve it alongside some grilled haloumi or a piece of fish, with plenty of heavily buttered bread to mop up the dressing.

This salad was really an exercise in ‘Casey doesn’t know what to cook so she’s going to chop and fry everything in the garden and see what works’. Fortunately everything worked, and it all worked especially well in combination! So I chucked it in a big bowl and here we have the Italian Warm Bean Salad!