Monday, June 25, 2012

Lunches by Todd

What's the biggest difference between my wife and I? I'll eat ANYTHING, literally anything. I don't care what's mixed with what or what it is. I'll eat it.

So keep that in mind when you're reading my posts about meals I made for myself with little to no help from my more culinarily realistic wife.

I had a 150 mile bike ride this weekend, so I knew I had to eat healthy. Two salads in two days...

Day 1:
  • Red Leaf Lettuce (Farm Share)
  • Organic Hard Boiled Egg (Farm Share)
  • Bacon
  • Blue Cheese Crumble
  • Organic Avocado
  • Olive Oil
  • Balsamic Vinaigrette
  • Organic Chopped Walnuts
Washed the lettuce, cut it up into bite sized pieces and threw them in a bowl. I did try a piece of the red leaf lettuce on it's own and it was AMAZING! Very sweet and crispy! There is something to say for fresh and local. I ate the whole salad and wasn't even hungry till dinner. I think the protein from the egg and walnuts helped!



Day 2:
  • Leafy Green Leafs (Farm Share)
    • Okay, so I don't really know these were but if I had to guess I might say Chinese Cabbage. If anyone else has any ideas please feel free to comment.
  • Green Onions (Farm Share)
  • Scapes (Extra from our neighbors Farm Share) 
  • Small Can of Tuna
  • Organic German Mustard
  • Sweet Relish
  • Balsamic Vinaigrette
I mixed the Green Onions, Scapes, Tuna, Mustard and Relish together to create the tuna salad.



I washed the green mystery leaves and spread them on the plate. I put the tuna salad on top and drizzled the balsamic and olive oil over everything as a dressing.  It was amazing. The only issue I had... those mystery leaves had small prickly hairs on the back of them. 


It was down the hatch and I was full and healthy!

3 comments:

  1. prickly hairs=poisonous cabbage...

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    1. Well I'm still alive, but I have more left want to try it?

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  2. Since you said prickly my guess is turnip greens... any chance you got a shot of the stalks? Swiss chard is another option but those aren't usually prickly..

    We did a share last year with moderate success. We have so many farms nearby we decided to skip it this year and just hit the farmstands.

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