kitchen update: caesar salads are easy to make

so i made a caesar salad this past weekend

and it was pretty darn tasty.

as you know, i'm

teaching myself how to cook

as i finally came to the realization that i didn't actually know how.

turns out,

it's not so hard,

and maybe i'm actually pretty okay at it.

(aaron had a big surprised face on when he bit into a week-old piece of quiche

and then said, man! it's actually pretty tasty!)

he's a picky eater. :D

ANyway, in the conquering of my quest for nutrition and good health,

i've been making lots of vegetarian dishes.

and by "lots," i mean

i made a quiche one night

and then ate lots of yummy veggies that i had never known i loved.

and this weekend,

after aaron mentioned craving one,

and i remembered how much i loved them, as well,

i decided to make a fresh caesar salad.

so i went to the source of all delicious, wholesome, healthy things,

and copied the vegetarian caesar salad recipe directly from smitten kitchen.

i almost had a meltdown in the grocery store trying to locate worcestire sauce

(THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY CONDIMENTS IN THE CONDIMENT AISLE,)

but it was a meltdown kind of day,

and i figured it out eventually, so no big deal.

i accidentally ran into a display of croutons

but, of course, was immediately repulsed by the idea of croutons from a bag

so i bought an over-baked loaf of bread and chopped it up at home and put parmesan on it and baked up some crouton deliciousness.

probably if i had ANY seasonings, i would have used some there, too.

i had the MOST FUN shopping for lettuce

seeing as my family grew up on iceberg lettuce heads

and there is A LOT to be said for a big, plentiful chunk of romaine lettuce.

i washed it so lovingly

ripped it up in big chunks

and tossed them all together.

i picked up some yummy parmesan,

whisked up SK recipe

and man! it worked!

so we almost had an entirely delicious and healthy, nutritious meal

ALMOST

because

i was able to accurately identify that i was craving ice cream....

so

.........

yeah.

aaron walked

across the street

and bought some

and it was delicious

and i was a very happy woman.

yay!