Blog, I feel like we've become friends; that I can tell you things, and that you understand and are sympathetic. It's nice spending time with you. That's why I don't mind telling you that this afternoon I became nauseous after lunch. I don't think it was the ingredients of my lunch that made me sick, but rather it was an unclean container that I tried to re-use to store my carrots. STUPID IDEA. What else did I have? An apple. I used sanitizer before lunch. Had to have been the container for the carrots. I also had a few peanuts, but I never touched them. So I remained nauseous long after I arrived home this evening, and I did not feel like eating. Eventually I felt hungry, so into the kitchen I went scratching my head because I had no idea what I was going to eat. I am still giving up bread and pasta for a while, so throwing together something to eat is not as simple as it has been. Last week, a nice and easy pasta dish would have been my meal. Tonight my meal was based on Romaine lettuce.
I have several cans of tuna in the pantry, and so I thought what the hey? Tuna salad. Romaine leaves in the fridge have been storing nicely, but they need to be eaten. So far so good. Whereas I usually use a decent quality bottled dressing for my salads, KB inspired me to make my own dressing for the tuna salad this evening. It contained: apple cider vinegar, olive oil, about a tablespoon of Duke's mayonnaise, fresh lemon juice, a little bit of grated Parmigiano Reggiano, Salt and Pepper, and some of that dill that I had in the fridge. I whisked all of that together and then I added a few capers. I had to add a little bit of water to the dressing, but it absolutely needed it. I wondered if the dressing would be too thin after adding the water, but it was still thick enough to adhere to the Romaine lettuce, and that pleased me immensely.
So I spread the leaves around a plate, placed a bit of tuna on top of the lettuce, and drizzled some of that dressing all over it. As I finished plating my salad, I intended to get a picture, but the camera was in the other room and that salad looked so appetizing that I had to eat it straight away. But KB has me onto something new and improved now, blog. New and improved.
3 comments:
I was wrong about the nausea. As I was contemplating things today, I realized that carrots and apples are full of fiber, and I have been eating a lot of those two items lately trying to finish my 10-pound bag of carrots. Fiber is an industrious custodian.
Mmmmm that dressing sounds AWESOME!!! I also ate tuna salad yesterday, but mine was hurried, so it was just a bit of Duke's, some lemon juice, and salt and pepper... Not nearly as exciting!
Homemade dressing ARE such an improvement over the bottled!!! :) Yay!
The dressing is my new favorite thing. It's calorie-laden, though.
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