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RE: Grandpa Gotta Cook—Salad Buffet
Oh yeah, the salad king strikes again. Sometimes we just need a good dose of heavy greens. That doesn’t mean we can’t add in the reds, yellows, purples, blues, and pinks, it just means we need to eat some plants. Of course @glenalbrethsen makes the king of salads at his house… I mean come over and set up a salad station here anytime.
Everything looks truly scrumptious and it’s good to hav enough back on the Friday wagon my friend! I’m glad salad was able to take the blah out of you :)
Hey, @puravidaville.
It's good to be back. Now that my wife is home from her vacation while recovering from hernia surgery, and the hard fork is over, I'm hoping to get back into the groove here. Need more posts other than this one on Friday, though, in order to pull that off.
King of salads is a bit much, but I did like having everyone create their own. Made it a lot easier on me. Chopping up vegetables and some fruit isn't that tough. And the steak didn't take more than 10-ish minutes, so that was easy, too. All in all I think I was able to wrap it up in under an hour, which is good for me. :)
What really made me lean to the salads was I didn't know if I was preparing something for everyone or not, because the youngin's were threatening to head off to Red Lobster. They didn't end up going. I'm not sure what my wife and I would have done had they gone—she's not so keen on eating out—so we probably would have had more salad fixings leftover is all. :)
Well I personally love the idea of a home salad bar… you chop and set out all of fixings and the clan feeds themselves. It’s brilliant! Believe it or not we don’t make a ton of salads in my house but these “do it yourself” greens are welcome on our TV trays (dinner table) anytime :).
I’m hoping your wife has a speedy recovery and it sounds to me like you killed this dinner challenge.
Well, thanks for that.
My wife, according to the surgeon, is fully recovered. She went back to work for the first time this week and seemed to make it through, so that's good.
We generally end up with the prepackaged salads that I'm not that fond of. The lettuce always looks like it's been sitting around too long. However, that's what we used for the base. My wife had just bought it that day, so that worked out okay. It didn't have to sit in the refrigerator very long.
That’s good to hear! Why do prepackaged salad lettuce always look that way… I find I have the same complaint so I just stopped buying them. It’s probably better I cut the lettuce myself anyway… it’s always impressive to me that cutting up a salad still takes about 20-30 minutes… 🤷🏼♀️ Maybe I’m just a slow chopper. :)