Spinach Salad with Salmon, Dried Bing Cherries and Cheddar Cheese
I like my food colorful :)
~Greens (spinach; kale; romaine)
~Reds (beets; dried cherries; dried cranberries)
~Orange (carrots or sweet potatoes, gently roasted for texture)
~Yellows (roasted potatoes; yellow bell pepper)
The first time I made the salad with Romaine, roasted beets and carrots, we put a vegan raspberry vinaigrette on it which was delicious and I said "it needs something yellow." The next time I made it, I put the yellow bell pepper on top. It added this watery, summery freshness that I didn't really want, but everyone else liked it.
For whatever reasons, I really enjoy doing plates half salad and half starchy potatoes; small red potatoes roasted with thyme and rosemary are delicious, and spicy sweet potato fries with tons of crushed red pepper are a good go-to every day--I love sweet potato fries more than life itself.
The salmon was an impulse buy from Whole Foods. I don't ordinarily shop at Whole Foods, but I'd been reading about these Spectrum Fish Oil Tabs that are derived from non-threatened fishies and I wanted some. I get plenty of omega-3s from flax seeds, but I go in and out of phases with flax seeds, so I wanted to check these out. Of course, the ones I wanted were twice the price of all the others, but I had fish on the brain so I figured I'd check out the fillets.
I know that buying Salmon is really bad. I know that buying pretty much any kind of fish is a bad bad idea, and I probably shouldn't have. But I did. It was $10 for two lovely looking fillets (they were on sale, of course) and I took them home and immediately cooked some up for my lunch. It was sinfully delicious, and the kittens loved the skins and bits I tossed them while I was prepping. I froze the rest and snacked on it for the next few days, but I think that was my allotment of fish for the next few months; I have to do my penance for buying it.
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