I'm always trying to come up with exciting new ideas for my lovely April's packed lunch. I stumbled across a couple of recipes for "chopped salad." The light bulb went on and I realized this style of salad was the perfect vehicle for using up vegetables that might shortly hit the compost. I started with some romaine lettuce, celery, carrots, cucumber, green onions and cherry tomatoes all chopped in bite size pieces. I rolled turkey, salami and provolone in a cigar like shape and sliced it chiffonade style into ribbons. In a separate jar I packed a vinaigrette of olive oil, balsamic, dried oregano, granulated garlic, salt and pepper. All she has to do at lunch is shake the jar of vinaigrette, add it to the salad and mix. Easy money! Vary the veg or dressing and you can have a different salad every day. Enjoy!
Life's a Picnic Chopped Salad
7 comments:
Nice for her to have such an easy and delicious lunch.
Zoomie- She loves em! I saw a similar salad on a famous L.A. restaurant take out menu for $16...can you imagine?
I'm still looking for the salad part! Oh, yeah, down there. What a treat. Greg, did you get one too?
cookiecrumb- It is a bit of an optical illusion. The meat was really a small part of the salad. I am a bit hooked on extreme close ups. Boys and toys...you know how that is. :)
cookiecrumb- Oh and I had left over pot stickers.
I wish Ms.Goofy would make me this packed lunch for work. It sure looks yummy. If she did it would only be for a couple of months anyway.
Chilebrown- Thanks-It takes a bit of time but the money saved goes into our cruise fund. You getting ready to pull the pin?
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