Friday Fun Food

"Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy."- Author unknown

Dinner!

Today is the Mundelein Farmer's Market.  Fortunately, Chris has summer hours and has Friday afternoons off from work.  This allows us to go to the farmer's market then grocery shopping to get our week's worth of groceries.  Since there is a lot of produce that is available now, I thought I would share one of our favorite salads- Tuna Nichoise.  It is easy to make and good for you!  Most of this salad came from produce we got at the farmer's market or from our neighbor.  Here are the ingredients:

Head of lettuce or mixed greens- we got ours from the neighbor

1Tomato- from farmer's market

1/2 lb- Green Beans- from farmer's market

5 small white potatoes- from farmer's market

1/2 c.- chopped pitted kalamata olives (grocery store)

6.4 oz of tuna (grocery store)

Reduced Fat Salad Dressing - according to your taste.

Lay your bed of greens down in the bowl.  Boil potatoes until almost done (about 15-minutes).  The last 5-minutes of the potato boil, add green beans.  Drain green beans and potatoes and cool.  Cut up potato into bite size pieces.  Arrange potatoes and green beans in the bowl on lettuce.  Dice tomato and chop the kalamata olives.  Arrange in bowl.  Finally, plop your tuna in the middle!  Add salad dressing according to your taste.  

It's a quick and easy weeknight dinner that looks visually pleasing (impress your friends or family).  It goes great with a glass of Sauvignon Blanc.

Things that are available at the market this week: Strawberries, red raspberries, cucumbers, green beans, sugar snap peas, onions, beets, turnips, radishes, swiss chard, kale, broccoli, arugula and PIE!  

Three things I am grateful for today:

1) Going to the doctor and getting antibiotics to finally nip this sinus infection in the bud!

2) Early morning bike ride with some buddies

3) Wine and dinner out on the deck.