One Room Restaurants: A Salad (no I'm not kidding)

Hi, I'm Zeke and I have an addiction.

This is a picture of my kitchen at its cleanest. It's cluttered at the best of times.

Isn't she lovely? Isn't she beautiful?

I love my kitchen right now. It's bigger than some of my apartments here in Korea have been. That being said, that's all of it. Not a lot of counter space. Only two burners. Colder than a witches teat. The other day I threw out half a dozen eggs because they had frozen and cracked open while sitting on the counter. True story. Today, I'm going to make a salad. Anyone who knows me will think I've been hacked, but no this really happened.

Current mood: Confused? Scared? Afraid of wolves?
Sounds: My neighbors' baby and a yipping dog
Drink: Either Merlot or Cab. Sav.
Time: Probably much less than 2 hours

I decided to make a salad. I eat salads ALL THE TIME, easily every other time there's a lunar eclipse or so. When I eat a salad I want it to be tasty and kinda non-salady. I knew I had some olives and salami in my fridge so I decided to make a sweet vinaigrette.

These are the things I used (plus the wine {yes, I'm drinking it out of a Starbucks mug with boobs because I'm classy}that made me feel better about making salad)

3/8 cup extra virgin olive oil

1/8 cup balsamic vinegar

2 table spoons raspberry jam

eyeballed amount of thyme, oregano, salt, pepper

I threw everything in my measuring cup and mixed it up with a fork. Fancy stuff.


This is the finished result.

After that, I got all of my salad stuff together.

Various greens
Green olives
Tomato
Red and yellow peppers
Walnuts
Genoa Salami
Aged Coastal English Cheddar

Honestly I don't know what the greens are, partially due to my amateur green eating status and partially because I didn't bother to look up the Korean words. The salami, cheese, and olives all came from my favorite store: Costco. The cheese is really great for salads for two reasons. One, it's super salty. To me all my salty ingredients taste super good with the vinegar and sugar from the jam. B, it crumbles really easily. If you cut it kinda thin, it just falls apart beautifully. I love nuts in salad, especially walnuts. They have a texture that's really unique to me, almost pleasantly chalky.

Who cares about when there were just greens in the bowl?

I rinsed the greens and threw them in. I took all the slicing-required veggies, sliced them, and threw them on top. Probably you know how to make a salad or can figure out the rest anyway.