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Cooking up something light and fresh always brings out the sunshine. Last night, I repeated a salad that was made for the tropical bridal shower on the weekend. This amazing salad of papaya, avocado and romaine lettuce topped with a papaya seed dressing brought some sunshine into our gloomy kitchen.
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I found the recipe on the Mennonite Girls Can Cook blog. It reminds me of a recipe we used to make back in the 90's at our "gourmet cooking dinner club" parties. Don't know where the original recipe got to (after too many moves around the province). But this one is a great fascimile. It's back on the list of one of our favoruite salads. I served it with some panko crusted tilapia. Summer sunshine for a January night.
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The writers over at Folk Magazine and Blog have been keeping me inspired lately. Every day there is something new and wonderful to read about. Today they spoke about forcing narcissus bulbs as a love token for Valentine's Day. Sweet. And then I remembered that I still had a box of these little bulbs in my closet from before Christmas and ran to plant them up in a square glass jar filled with pebbles like this photo:
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As I look around the house I see that the last of the amaryllis plants from Christmas is about to send up another shoot, the Costco orchids are still blooming and that my Christmas cactus has decided to send out new flowers on it's own schedule.
Plus I'm getting my hair cut and coloured today in preparation for our trip to the Dominican next week for my niece's wedding. (update - the salon just called and my hairstylist is off sick today - guess I'm cutting my own bangs and heading to the drug store for a box of hair colour).
It may be gloomy outside, but the sun is shining in our house!
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Bad news, freeze/thaw will be very hard on my plants,good news, the salad sounds delicious, and perfect for Barbados, and new news, Folk sounds very interesting, I shall have to check it out. Have fun on your trip to the sunny south.
Oh your post has brighten my day Heather!
I've started forcing some of the bulbs, I do it at different times so I have a succession of blooms. Lots of thunder & heavy rain here today, I'm sad the snow is melting, too. And with that comes the worry of flooding...
Have a great time in the Caribbean at the wedding! Perfect time of year to be heading there. Have a safe trip.
Debbie :)
It's dark and rainy here today and I'm slogging through deep puddles to get to the chicken coop. I won't complain, though, as my well needs the water!
Great post Heather, that salad looks so fantastic.
Cynthia
Your lovely snow photo reminds me of the movie..."you'll shoot your eye out!"...so nostalgic that neighborhood. I love the forced bulbs too...brings in such a fresh hopeful element during the gray days! The salad looks delicious!
Nice post!! Love the snow picture so beautiful even if it gets slushy... here it is in the mid 80s and I have my air-con running.. oh yes its hot!!!
The salad is so pretty! I always forget to save a a few paperwhite bulbs for February. Even the roots and bulbs of those above are pretty.
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