Monday Mayhem

 

It might be a coincidence or maybe it was the false spring we had last week, but once it gets sunny for more than one day in a row this time of year, all I want to eat is salad.  My preferred combination is lettuce, cheddar cheese, grape tomatoes, cucumber (English so I don't have to peel it), croutons, sunflower seeds and ranch.  

During the fall and winter, I make soup once a week and during spring and summer it's some kind of salad every week.  When it's back and forth weather (like this week) I have Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck competing in my head:  "It's soup season!" "No, it's salad season!" and try to have both and then we have some extra warm day where we're eating soup for dinner and that's just wrong.  

Last week, the soup was tortellini and kale.  I forgot to take a picutre but here's the recipe.  Three things I do differently, one add the sausage at the end so my vegetarian child can eat, and I don't have to make two separate pots.  I almost always use vegetable stock, not chicken for the same reason, and I use dried tortellini and put it in the soup earlier than the recipe says to.  

While NCR (not craft related) this post is part of my take a photo everyday in March personal challenge.  

Happy soup salad season.