Super Salad


The FA joined me on Saturday when GASP had chosen GAA over an evening in with woty....imagine ! Mond you he had just spent a week with me on holidays so deserved a break. The cupboard was well and truly bare, having not got around to the post hols shop so I was under pressure to produce a meal for someone who is a gourmet foodie. Thank God for GASP, as I strolled out to the garden to find large dew covered lettuces, vibrant green spinach and some scallions. I had managed to pick up a cooked chicken that lunchtime so I raided the bottom drawers of the fridge and the larder cupboard and managed to bring together the best salad I have ever made. I washed the lettuce and spinach and tore them roughly into the huge Nicholas Mosse bowl we got as a wedding present. I added the chopped scallions, some halved cherry tomatoes, the last 3 inches of cucumber and some sunflower seeds. I found a jar of artichoke hearts in oil, which I had bought some time ago in Aldi, drained them and added them on top of the salad leaves. I topped this with roughly torn pieces of chicken and shavings of Parmesan and some olives I found in the fridge door topped off this salad wonder.Finally,I chopped up a stale bread roll, bought in Dunmore East the day before, and tossed it in olive oil on a pan until crisp, to make scrumptious home made croutons.If I may say so myself it made a pretty good impression and when served with some Parmesan shavings, Dijon dressing and a glass of Chilean Sauvignon Blanc made the perfect summer evening girlie supper. I would like to point out that we did not in fact consume the entire bowl...I finished it off for lunch on Monday and Tuesday !
Now there isn't a salad on Earth which can single handedly satisfy two women on a Saturday evening without a side helping of gossip, innuendo and man talk, so the FA and I enjoyed our portion of that for dessert.She filled me in on the great evening at The Bakers, which I had to miss due to the boys being poorly. The food as expected was "to die for" with an antipasti platter, home made pizzas and an 85% chocolate cake with frsh raspberries for dessert. I was gutted I had missed it but not the hangovers experienced by the guests the following day!At no stage in the evening did the FA mention that Sage and Stone would fill a corner of my,much loved ,Food and Wine magasine !I will forgive her and look forward to their summer fete on July 24th....an event I am not planning to miss !

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