A Salad

At first glance this salad may not seem too exciting; however, the lettuce that you see was cut from my garden hours before going onto the plate.  I'm moving in 13 days and even though I'm going to have a small container garden, I know I will miss the variety and abundance of what I have now.  My pantries are not as cleaned out as I would like, so I'm going to try not to grocery shop (except for some mangoes that are on an exceptional sale this week) until after I move.  It may make for some interesting dishes.

The salad below contains lettuce, grape tomatoes, cucumber, more ranch roasted chickpeas, and some ranch dressing I mixed up.  Really, when I move I need to remind myself not to buy bottled salad dressing.  It looks so tempting in the store, but I can't even use half a bottle before I'm tired of it.  Homemade dressing is so much tastier and very easy.  If you can buy ranch seasoning in bulk, I highly recommend doing so.  You won't regret it.

Salad Confessional

I have a few weird confession to make about salads: I crave them in the winter and I crave them when I want something creamy and fatty.  It was the first day back to work in almost two weeks, so I think that's why I was wanting something comforting.  Trust me, I am under absolutely no delusions that the salads I make are healthy.  I made some ranch dressing with ranch seasoning, mayonnaise, and almond milk.  I slathered this on top of romaine lettuce, carrots, celery, cucumbers, hard-boiled eggs, and a Boca Chik'n patty.  I wanted to top this with olives, cheese, and avocado, but I didn't think it would fit on my plate.  This salad was fantastic and really hit the spot.

What I ate today:


8:00 am: 16oz coffee with cream and sugar.  I really need to get up early enough to make breakfast. I was starving by the time lunch came around.

12:00 pm: Leftover pork loin with mashed potatoes, gravy, and green beans

6:00 pm: lovely, comforting, fatty salad.