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Daily Prompt: Those Dishes Won’t Do Themselves (Unfortunately)
What’s the household task you most dislike doing?
Why do you think that is – is it the task itself, or something more?
I am an “I hate to cook-er.” That means that in spite of being mysteriously regarded as a gourmet cook, I definitely hate the whole roasting, toasting, broiling, baking experience.
Maybe I have been cooking too long.
But the task I hate the most about it all is making salads!
There are no shortcuts to making salads are there? And we have one every night – every single night of our lives (except when we eat out of course).
What is it about making salads for decades that is so daunting?
It’s all the cutting up of the same old same old ingredients – you know – lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, onions, cucumbers, ad infinitum.
Sometimes I just slice cucumbers and tomatoes but Bill treats them like a salad anyway and has that look like he thinks something may be missing – namely, lettuce peppers, onions and the ad infinitum stuff.
Tonight I made a huge salad with everything in it so we can have it again tomorrow. Hurrah! Nothing to cut up!
But tomorrow I will have cooked for three days in a row.
On the third day the meals from our kitchen deteriorate into not-so-tasty-less-than-delicious-repasts. (Not on purpose, honest!)
But on the third day when burnt things appear along with less than perfect salads, Bill “gets it” – the cue.
It’s time to go out!
Saturday we will be dining with friends at a local restaurant where someone else will be doing the cutting up.
Maybe I will try a Honeymoon Salad next at home.
Have you ever heard of a Honeymoon Salad?
It’s “Lettuce (Let Us) Alone!”
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