So, I never had a green thumb. But, my grandfather, a strapping strawberry blond Spaniard, was the kind of guy that could grow, build, or breed anything. Someone, please tell me where those men are these days? I’ve been spending far too much time at Home Depot.
As the youngest of three girls, I don’t take kindly to failing, so after a few bouts of very pathetic herbs and ruffages, I decided to recommit to the idea. I won a plot in my neighborhoods community garden (yes, it’s perhaps the most charming thing about me) and got to work.
Overwhelmed with information and loaded up with seedlings and plants the community members and my dad had given me, I decided to take a more fate be damned approach and just see what happened.
Oscar, who runs the garden, helped me till the plot and add amendments. I planted the seedlings and within a month, shit was happening.
Within 3 months it was on! I was lousy with zucchini, tomatoes, and mint (although the latter is almost like saying your lousy with dandruff – it’s easy to get, hard to get rid of). My sister Jenn, was over to co-work and I decided to make us a fresh salad. I mean, how stinking romantic is it to put tomatoes warmed from the vine straight in to a salad?
Here’s how I did it:
Green leaf lettuce from my neighborhood market, Fresco
Lemon – from my tree no less! – to taste
2 cups Rotisserie chicken breast
1 ½ teaspoon olive oil
½ teaspoon mayonnaise
1 teaspoon brown mustard
Salt and pepper to taste
As many cherry tomatoes as you got from the garden
That’s it baby. Fresh. Easy. About 220 calories per serving (makes about 3 servings)
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