Why is it that some of the best meals look awful? Sometimes, by the time I stir my salads up they look pretty weird. Then I say, “that was the best salad ever!” Well, with a bit of a bloggers block, looking through recent photos to make a semi-decent post this morning, I noticed that some of my best eats weren’t so pretty. I am that person who takes tons and tons of photos and then ends up deleting all but a few. Sometimes, what looked good at the time, ends up looking terrible in my photo. What better idea than to even share the odd stuff. Not all post, can be my favorites right…?
When I sat down to eat this, I told Jason, the name of this salad is, “The Shit!” He told me not to post that. Oops, I am sorry Jason. Really though, this salad was truely, the shit! Sometimes when you are putting ingredient together you don’t really have any expectation, then you eat it and are amazed at how good it turned out. Well yes, my friends, that is what happened to me with this. Salad: red leaf lettuce, kidney beans, grilled zucchini and yellow squash, fresh tomato, cooked millet with fresh salsa and taco seasoning, crumbled up corn chips and quacamole for dressing. All stirred up; not so pretty, tasty though!
Tuesday night we made burgers. Mine consisted of a grilled portabello mushroom and zucchini, tomato, mustard and lettuce with beet chips. Beets would have been better, had I not over charred them!
Eggplant Bruschetta and Beets
Not wanting to overcook the beets again, I grilled them in the Forman grill with some yellow squash. More exciting than that, was the eggplant bruschetta of course! I liberally salted the eggplant in a colander and let is sweat for 30 minutes, then rinsed thoughly. Cooked in the oven on parchment paper at 375 for 40 minutes, flipping once. After it cooled a bit, I cut it up into chunks and combined with tomato, half a juiced lemon, 1 jalapeno (it wasn’t hot), some dried basil and sea salt. It would have been better with fresh basil, I admit. This was one of those meals that is so good that you keep saying so, after it’s gone. For some reason, I kept wanting more, even though I was full. That is the beauty of making just enough for your plate sometimes. If there aren’t leftovers, you can’t go back for seconds!
In more exciting news, I am going to the VegFest today! I am even toting Jason along. Can’t wait!
