Randy and I had shopping to do this afternoon, so we started with a Pollo Loco lunch. My favorite fast food place. Mid-afternoon we had lattes and devoured, between us, an entire package of Trader Joe's Pecan Pralines. Soooo, I adjusted our dinner plans. I made a composed salad (see pg. 52 in TAOSF) of greens and leftovers. We can now see the back wall of the inside of the refrigerator. Red-leaf lettuce and flat-leaf parsley tossed with a bit of mandarin orange salad dressing. On the lettuce I put vegetables on 1/3 of the serving dish, 1/3 meat, and 1/3 fruit. The veggie segment was the last of the celery root remoulade. The meat was the last of the roast beef, sliced into thin strips. The fruit segment was celery sliced diagonally, a sliced persimmon, and the seeds of 1/2 of a pomegranate. Alice's example of a composed salad is a Greek salad, but that's a summer dish in our area. You really want the best possible tomatoes. So, I won't count my composed salad as an official "recipe completed," but I did make this salad differently with great success.
The house sale gets weirder and weirder. The other half of the mortgage crisis is lenders' unwillingness to make loans now. Our buyer is suddenly having difficulty getting his loan, in part because he is insisting on using a mortgage lender on the other end of the state rather than a local institution. Oh sigh. Meanwhile, we have learned that there is another party interested in the house, but that they didn't express serious interest until we were in escrow with the first buyer. So now we are feeling out the second buyer's current level of interest in case the first escrow falls through. All of this wouldn't be quite so interesting if it weren't for the fact that we are leaving the country for 3 weeks in 1 week. It wouldn't be impossible to start a new escrow from Europe, but it would be another adventure. Well, we're always up for an adventure.
Carry on!
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