Friday, April 11, 2008

Salads on the patio

Lentil salad, green salad, egg salad


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I DON'T GET THESE GUYS on the television news: they crow about how wonderful the weather is, but it's unseasonably hot. Not mid-April yet, and it's almost too hot to eat lunch outside. But at the last minute a breeze came up, and it was almost comfortable. We had a couple of friends over, and Lindsey made lentil salad: the lentils, chicken stock, cilantro, a little butter, a little garlic, a little ginger, lemon juice and rind, salt and pepper. She made egg salad for sandwiches: eggs, mayonnaise, grated onion, tarragon, salt, dry mustard, capers. She made green salad, with my usual vinaigrette. Much talk, for we have things to discuss, we four, even apart from the food, which came in for its share of compliments.

Hinano beer, Pinot grigio, water with Meyer lemon slices

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