Two summer dishes

Two summer dishes, both of which tasted good and were well-received by the boy (especially the salad, which he loooooooooooved).

The salad was made of:

• Butter lettuce
• Romaine lettuce
• Halved cherry tomatoes
• Quartered red cherries
• Lightly pickled spring onions
• Radishes
• Smoked chicken
• Toasted walnuts
• Grilled asparagus, chilled
• Lemon-based vinaigrette (lemongrette?)

(Prepared like a salad: everything cut or torn into bite-sized pieces and washed well, dried well so that the dressing would stick, then tossed with the vinaigrette and served immediately to prevent it getting soggy.)

The soup was made of:

• Homemade vegetable broth (chicken broth would also work)
• A medium onion
• A celery stalk
• A couple of cloves of garlic
• Salt
• Pepper
• A white potato
• A head of kale
• A can of diced tomatoes
• Two baby zucchini
• A handful of cherry tomatoes
• Juice of a lemon
• Fresh thyme

(Prepared in fairly standard soup fashion: sautee the aromatics with the salt and pepper until the onion is soft; add the liquid; add the kale, potato, and tomatoes; when the potatoes are almost soft, add the zucchini and cherry tomatoes; when the zucchini is palatably soft, add the lemon juice and thyme and serve.)

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Per madam_silvertip's recommendation, I'm watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show, disc 1.

More later, but: is it bad that I think the cuts of the clothes are super cute? I mean, there's way too much brown and yellow for my palette, and I'm not a big fan of paisley or big flower patterns, but the kicky little skirts, the tunics, the knee boots, the dresses with belts and swishy skirts? I ♥.

I'm not sure whether this is a sign of fledgling fashion taste, or merely confirmation that I have no taste.