{"id":3233,"date":"2018-04-30T21:28:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T02:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2018-04-30T21:29:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T02:29:40","slug":"it-all-came-together-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/30\/it-all-came-together-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"It all came together OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having trouble figuring out dinner.<\/p>\n<p>I had some mung bean sprouts and some pea shoots and some radish shoots in the fridge that I wanted to use up. All local, all good, I just wasn&#8217;t sure our exchange student would like them. I had bought some cauliflower and some tofu and some cabbage, thinking possibilities like mac &amp; cheese with roasted cauliflower tossed in and a sprouty salad on the side, or maybe a stir fry, with sprouts and cabbage and I want to make these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/magazine\/leftovers-new-parents-vegetables-grain-bowls.html\">egg ribbons<\/a> that Francis Lam describes so nicely. I also have leftover cooked bacon and lots of cheese and a few nice little hydroponic cherry tomatoes, also from the market. For part of the ride home I flirted with the notion of grilled cheese sandwiches with bacon, or maybe this Rachael Ray <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rachaelraymag.com\/recipe\/blt-pea-shoot-stir-fry\">BLT type stirfry<\/a>, with shoots and bacon and little tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>But none of it was feeling quite right.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered <a href=\"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/2010\/07\/20\/summer-suppers-continue\/\">salads I&#8217;d made in summers<\/a> &#8211; and springs &#8211; past, with roasted vegetables on a bed of lettuce or other greens, with maybe a little extra dressing, or maybe just lemon juice to go with the oil the vegetables were roasted in.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s what we had &#8211; the sprouts were tossed with a lemon vinaigrette &#8211; lemon juice, mustard, honey, olive oil &#8211; and the last of some grated Parmesan from a container lurking in the fridge. I roasted the cauliflower and a couple of carrots and half a shallot, sliced, in not too much oil. I topped the dressed sprouts with a big, chopped, hard boiled egg &#8211; somehow the box I got from Pecatonica week before last seems to have been jumbo rather than large eggs &#8211; and a handful of the cherry tomatoes sliced in half.<\/p>\n<p>I made a few crostini that we topped with goat cheese and sun-dried tomato pesto, and it was a delightful dinner. The kid had seconds of the salad and finished it off before I could even worry much about how wilty it might get overnight.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3235\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3235\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/saladsuperMay3117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/saladsuperMay3117.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/saladsuperMay3117-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/saladsuperMay3117-338x450.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Wednesday salad supper from the last day of May or early June of 2017, or so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BU1t0kDjbRY\/\">Instagram<\/a> tells me.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having trouble figuring out dinner. I had some mung bean sprouts and some pea shoots and some radish shoots in the fridge that I wanted to use up. All local, all good, I just wasn&#8217;t sure our exchange student would like them. I had bought some cauliflower and some tofu and some cabbage, &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/30\/it-all-came-together-ok\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,5],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-ds83473gmail-com","4":"post-3233","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blogpost","9":"post_tag-salads","10":"post_tag-week-night-cooking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}