Fresh Green Salad

Fresh Green Salad
Originally uploaded by thegreatplotnik.

The Great Plotnik is flying to Guatemala this afternoon, so, naturally, yesterday afternoon he did the most important thing: he made himself an enormous green salad. Romaine, spinach, carrots, radishes, leftover pilaf, leftover roast chicken, feta cheese and kalamata olives, with a vinaigrette heavy with dill and dijon. He made enough for eight people, but ate half of it himself yesterday and will down the last half right before he leaves for the airport. That'll be it for any greens or raw vegetables for the next 12 days.

Plotnik loves everything about traveling except for the part about missing healthy food. He never realizes just how Northern California he has become until his insides begin complaining about the boiled root vegetables and excess grease. The answer, of course, is to travel places where the water is safe to drink, so you can safely eat vegetables grown and washed in it, brush your teeth with it, drink ice made from it. But that's no fun.

Plus, travelers get to come back home. We shouldn't ever forget how lucky we are.

So, regardless of how good trucha (Peru), Mozambique prawns (South Africa), pancakes (Poland), the Imam's Eggplant (Turkey) and almond croissants (Rue Mouffetard) always are, by the time Plotnik and Ducknik get back they will be obsessing about quesadillas from La Palma and a fresh, green, tasty, huge, yummy, green, crunchy, enormous green salad, like this one over here.

El Gran Plotniko y la Doña Quackabella will keep blogging. Adios, amigos, hasta catorce dias.