Be forewarned: today I’m going to be one of those people who
shares pictures of her dinner.
Today I conquered a Pinterest recipe. I went to Jewel after yoga, and, of course, my phone only had 2% battery left when I got there, and I didn’t have my car charger. Therefore, I had to guess at the ingredients
for the avocado chicken salad with cilantro and lime that I wanted to
make. I figured if I got those four
ingredients, I’d be pretty much set. I
was right. I loaded up my basket with
fresh cilantro, lime, and avocado, and cheated with canned chicken (hey – give
me a break ok?) Then I even bought fresh
bread at the bakery counter to toast and make open faced sandwiches, and I
topped my basket off with the fixings for a goat cheese, cranberry, walnut salad
(I know they don’t go together. I don’t care.)
I apologize if I’m sounding defensive about my dinner. It’s wholly unnecessary.
As I checked out, I decided to recommit to going green at
the grocery store, and bought two new re-usable bags in my favorite color. Turns out I only needed one, because the
contents of my basket- that would normally be bagged in three or more
plastic bags - fit in just one re-usable bag.
So genius! So environmentally sound! So much easier to carry up to my
apartment! I took a picture of the
before:
And the after (look how much stuff fits in there!):
Now the challenge is to make sure the bags make it back into
the trunk of my car and into Jewel the next time I shop. For some reason, that is a very real and
serious challenge for me.
When I got everything unpacked from my sweet, magical,
bottomless bag, I started on the making of my chicken salad. I will not bore you with all the details - just some of them. I chopped up fresh cilantro and green onion I had left over in my fridge (it was a bit dodgy). Then I diced the avocado which, despite Jewel’s claim that
it was “RIPE NOW!” – was not, indeed, ripe.
I figured I could tolerate about half of it, so I cut it up really small
and tossed it together with the chicken, onion, and a mixture of lime juice and
mayo. In case you were wondering, lime juice does amazing things to mayonnaise,
and the dressing was delish (Yes, I just said "delish"):
I toasted my bread, made my salad, and fixed it up nice and
tidy on a plate. I cracked open my
bottle of Cupcake Pinot, and sat down to my very Pinterest-y dinner.
I have an aversion to monochromatic meals, and the chicken
salad runs dangerously close to being “too many green things on a plate,” but the
salad and bread shook up the color palate just enough. I think I liked the salad better than the
sandwich (of course – it was infinitely
easier to make), but all in all it was a good meal. While I ate, I watched videos of Jennifer Lawrence being adorable - which made the experience even better. One recipe down, fifty-some to go before I
make everything on my "Recipes to Try" board.
Maybe I’ll go for those soft, chewy, delicious cookies next. Here’s to Monday friends.
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