On Thu 18 Aug 2005 03:40:01p, Dave Smith wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Marge wrote:
>
>> We've been eating lots of already roasted chicken and salad in order to
>> cut out the cooking because of the heat this summer.
>>
>> I'd love some suggestions for dishes that don't take a lot of cooking.
>> We live in the city and don't have a grill. We do have a microwave.
>
> One of the things I miss from my childhood days is the cottage cheese
> fruit salads my mother used to serve on hot days, a good dollop of
> cottage cheese on a leaf of lettuce, a marchino cherry on the top and
> some sliced canned pears on the side, along with a hard boiled egg or
> deviled egg, some sweet pickles or gherkins, maybe some salmon salad or
> tuna salad.
>
> I suppose I could whip one up for myself but we never seem to have
> cottage cheese around the house because m wife doesn't like it much, and
> because she is a carnivore and doesn't consider anything a proper dinner
> unless there is meat on the plate.

Dave, you owe it to yourself to make that salad once in a while, despite
what other food is in the house or being served. Life is much too short to
deny ourselves the pleasure of memories and things we enjoyed in the past.


--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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