200 Words on this Salad I had Recently

The Strawberry Cookbook is where we keep the recipes we like. We go to a pot luck, and have a fantastic salsa, or the carrot bisque we had on the wine tour flips our lid and not only do we take the recipe card, but we have to go out and buy an immersion blender. Something in a magazine catches the fancy of one or both of us. That sort of thing gets taped into the pages of a spiral-bound blank book with a heavy plastic cover featuring a very large strawberry.

One time, we put in a recipe from a magazine for a salad into the Strawberry Cookbook. It sounded great; avocado, tomato, Romaine. Simple, easy, light for summer eating. Perfect, plus a splash of lime juice because lime juice makes perfect better.

Anyway. The lime juice did not save the salad.

Sometimes a recipe, even a simple one, brings the ingredients togther in a harmonious new food. Everything is still there, happy to be there, and happy to be contributing to this new thing.

The other night, though, the tomat, avo, and the rest of it just sat there, being themselves. It was like eating toddlers at parallel play.