Salad Survival

Color. We all want color in our lives. At least I do! Waiting makes everything so dull and gray that after a while everything becomes boring and uninteresting. Until something brings back the color of course :) (This is whatever you're waiting for!) And invariably with color comes a feeling of freshness, so you'll be as good as new after that long wait!

Making this salad made me feel so much better :) So I guess I'll share the recipe.

Cucumber slices, Broccoli, Celery (chopped fine), Tomato slices, Lettuce, Jalapenos, Black olives (sliced), Hot pepper stuffed green olives, Gherkin slices, Sweet melon chunks, Pineapple chunks, Cottage cheese cubes, Lettuce, Ground cabbage, French salad dressing, Pesto alla genovese sauce.

Just toss everything around lightly and drain BEFORE adding the sauces. Put away in the refrigerator for ~3 hours.

This stuff tastes good with Penne. Prepare the pasta as usual but after straining it wash in cold/ running water and then set aside in the fridge till it gets cold. This removes the starch and makes the pasta less sticky and more salad-friendly :)

Then just chomp-crunch chomp-crunch munch-munch.

PS : This salad came into existence as a result of one of my many random kitchen experiments.

DISCLAIMER: I am in no way responsible for anything that occurs as a consequence of ingesting the above mentioned culinary creation.