Autumn Salad Recipe

Brooke and I had this salad two dinners in a row - it was really pretty good. (This from someone who doesn't much care for lettuce!)

Ingredients:

1/2 cup - 1 cup hazelenuts (I bought already-chopped ones on sale)

3-4 Satsuma or any other tangerines

6 Medjool dates

1 tablespoon lemon juice, or about 1/2 a fresh-squeezed lemon

1 tablespoon olive oil

butter lettuce or any other type

radicchio ($5 a head...I had no idea Albertsons had any produce that expensive!)

Spread the hazelnuts on a baking sheeet and toast them in the oven for about 10 minutes on 350 until they're golden and some of the skins are coming off. Rub the loose skins off.

Grate 1/2 teaspoon of tangerine peel, if so desired. (I didn't.) And this to the juice of one of the tangerines, and then add the olive oil and lemon juice. Add salt and pepper to taste, too.

Mix lettuce and radicchio and top with sections (cut in half) of the rest of the tangerines, plus the dates, pitted and cut in pieces the long way. Put hazelnuts on top and then spoon the dressing generously over the whole thing.

Or, if you want to make it really fancy, arrange a bunch of radicchio on each person's plate and then layer the rest on top.

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After lookin up "radicchio" on the internet - uh, whatever I paid $5 for apparently wasn't radicchio. (Annie, you were right.) It had small leaves in a loose head, not tight like cabbage or radicchio apparently is. The leaves were light purple with a darker purple/green in the middle. Does anyone know what I've been eating?!

You can read the original from Sunset Foods if you want a recipe and no comments!

Revenge

"You barbarians!" he yelled. "I'll sue the council for every penny it's got. I'll have you hung, drawn, and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until you've had enough."
Ford was running after him very fast. Very very fast.
"And then I'll do it again!" yelled Arthur. "And when I've finished, I will take all the little bits, and I will jump on them!"

I think I would feel that way if someone was demolishing my house, too... :)

The worst...

...movie EVER. Right along with star wars phantom menace, only you, madagascar. and all the worst movies ever, Beowolf and Grendal is a horrible movie. Not to mention all the hilarious jokes about bestiallity(when keepin it real goes wrong), the lack of plot, and lame character development I think you will truely enjoy this movie Melodee. Do not waste your time or money renting this one. I wouldn't even check it out at the library. But I know your still gonna watch it. So if you do, don't forget "I TOLD YOU SO" said brooke. I do like the costumes, however much like LOTR costumes they are. I think Gerard Butler would have made a fabulous Aragorn, and he looks good with long hair. The "making of beowolf & grendal" was more interesting and i think GB should win an oscar for selling the film in this part. The enD

Meme

Ainsley tagged me for this one. (And I tag you, Brooke, whenever you get internet access.)

I AM: 24

I WANT: things to go my way

I WISH: sin wasn't so easy

I HOPE: I'll always enjoy cooking as much as I do now

I MISS: Melodee and Karamoja!

I HEAR: a very faint humming from my computer. It's quiet in the office today. (Snow always makes such a cool unnatural quiet.)

I WONDER: If the Twins will win the World Series next year?

I REGRET: "using my mother and father like a welcome mat" to quote the White Stripes

I HATE: liver

I AM NOT: stubborn (ha!)

I DANCE: sometimes

I SING: in the car, in church, actually a lot more places than I should, considering how I sing ;)

I CRY: when I'm very happy, which is rather ridiculous...

I AM NOT ALWAYS: very on top things

I MAKE WITH MY HANDS: dessert

I WRITE: blog posts, emails, stuff for work, occasionally stories that never get finished or get finished about five years later

I CONFUSE: myself

I NEED: a savior who forgives and cares for me, every day

I SHOULD: be less of a slacker

I START: ditto, Ains - lots of books

I FINISH: food, making it or eating it

I hope...

...Amanda didn't spill the beans but this is in America.

"The Most Futile Thing on Earth"

Or, 5- and 6-year-olds playing soccer. :) But it was fun watching them all crowd around the ball and frequently trip over each other. Ian's team got four goals in the last five minutes, after about an hour-long game...



Afterwards we went to the Farmer's Market to get green beans and pumpkins and gourds for the table - sometime when I'm not feeling so lazy, I'll upload them!

edit: lol...excuse me, I will upload photos, not the vegetables.