Monkey Monday: happy salad season! 30 June 2008 1:03 pm
Posted by Tracy in : salad, nutrition, seasonality, news, eating, cooking , trackbackSo a New York Times health blog headline caught my eye this morning: The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating, and when I clicked through, the images at the top of the post made me laugh. Why? Well, they had pictures of beets and cabbage, and this is what I had for dinner on Saturday night:
Yep, that’s coleslaw, beet salad, and my favorite lentil salad (that last on a bed of spinach). Healthy, schmealthy: I say NOM, I was eating them before the Times said they were cool, and will continue to eat them whenever I want, regardless of what the next food trends may be.
But, um, enough with the self-righteousness, back to the focus on that which is most delicious. All I really want to say is: summer is really here now, so it’s good to eat cold or at best room-temperature foods. Eugene went from June-uary to “hot damn! is that you, August?” in the span of a week, and only our random impulses to make big piles of salad and slaws saved us from more or less not eating this whole weekend. (The coleslaw is Peter’s creation, the beet and lentil salads mine.) So. Even though the weather has mellowed to the point where I was willing to risk eating warm food last night, this week’s TracyFoods will mostly be salads: recipes and pictures, so we can all be prepared in case the weather tries to melt us.
Stay cool, everybody!
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Beeeeeeeets.
I think I’ve told you about this beet salad — it’s the one that goes with a monkey story, which I have been meaning to write up here for at least a year.
I’m not sure. You should post the recipe, or send it to me because I am currently trying to eat my weight in beets.