Last night I drove home craving salad. I’d asked my pop to pick up a head of lettuce at the store and I had a jar of homemade russian dressing on the counter. I’m still craving that salad, pop can’t remember more than one thing at a time without a list. Of course, it’s not like I have room to talk, I’ve needed a new shower curtain for months and keep forgetting it. I’m also the same person who forgot pretzels from one end of WalMart to the other.<\/p>\n
So, I get home and there’s no lettuce. Yesterday was every single bit a Monday, so I didn’t feel like going back out into the world once I’d finally escaped. So, I started throwing things together from the cabinet.<\/p>\n
I started off boiling some whole wheat noodles. While those were cooking I looked in the fridge and found the asparagus I’d already forgotten about buying 2 days ago. I grilled the aspargus and chopped it into small pieces. Added a package of garlic & herb tuna, a can of black olives, a roasted red pepper, and some chopped green olives. Topped the whole thing with a little red wine vinegar and olive oil and tossed. <\/p>\n
Verdict? Not bad. Not great, but not bad. It fulfilled all of the requirements of a monday night dinner – it wasn’t terribly difficult, it was something different, it filled me up, and it didn’t make the tummy hurt. <\/p>\n
Partly, it was too many different flavors. Maybe next time I will leave out the green olives. <\/p>\n
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We have GOT to clean out the chest freezer. It’s got such big gobs of ice near the top that I can’t move the hanging baskets around to really look beneath them. So, this weekend, I am planning to cook that turkey breast that I bought a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Maybe I can master Nana’s dressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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