The air conditioner at work was broken today. Actually, it was broken last week, but last week it was still sping (i.e., cool and damp). Today it is summer, and it was already a balmy 86 degrees at 10 a.m.
Actually, I don't mind it warm. Normal office AC settings make me reach for a sweater. But a muggy day at 86 degrees, with no air moving, was a bit unpleasant. More unpleasant was the fact that the resolution I've been hoping for is not on the table anymore, at least not right now. It gave me a case of the Mondays, so in my disgruntledness, I wasted time today trying to find a recipe for a salad.
I'm not sure where this came from, but yesterday I got hit with this craving for a salad that I used to see at summer pot lucks all the time. It's made in a glass bowl, with layers of shredded cabbage or lettuce, peas, diced tomato, other stuff that doesn't stick in my mind, and it's covered with dressing and left overnight for the dressing to seep down. I think the dressing is usually Miracle Whip-y, but I am remembering one with ranch instead.
(Actually, all I really want is ranch dressing and peas. I supposed I could just go up to the salad bar...it wouldn't be any weirder than some of the "salads" I used to make for the iguana.)
Still, now that I found the salad (not by Goggling "peas+ranch dressing"...that just got me a bunch of school lunch menus...I asked around the office, and it's popularly known as "seven layer salad") I want to make it. I just need an invitation to a pot luck.
Posted by Nic at June 6, 2005 04:49 PM