Recipe of the Week: Everything Salad

What if these words were the first thing you saw every time you walk into the hallway: “My roommate caught me peeing on my girlfriend.” I’m pretty sure your reaction would look a little something like this:

 

The RA’s on my floor did something a little different this semester. Instead of posting news and events on the main bulletin board you see every time you walk out of the elevator, they created something they call “The Wall of Weird.” Everyone is allowed to “anonymously” post strange and unsettling things that happened to them at the Summit.

I’ve been in la-la land for the past month so I never noticed it. Until today.

Picture this: I was innocently walking out of the elevator into the hallway. It was early and I was exhausted. I was carrying heavy bags with me (as usual). While I was dragging my feet against the now faded carpet of the Summit, my eyes began to wander. A checkered red and black bulletin board caught my eye. I had nothing else to do, so I began to read what was written there. I really wish I hadn’t.

What did they think would happen? If you leave a bulletin board open to write on, do you think college students are going to write interesting stories about their experiences? Of course not. It’s like the doodlings on high school desks all over again. Profanity galore. I’m not going to repeat what’s written there, mostly because I can’t make sense of most of it. There’s something about a hobbit, and a lot of strange “I walked in on my roommate doing…” something or another.

Now let me remind you that when I first truly discovered “The Wall of Weird” I was delirious. I could have walked past it, I could have. But the marker was right there, and an empty spot was calling my name. Just as I was about to write something, a hoard of people came running down the hall. I quickly dropped the marker and walked away nonchalantly like “no I was definitely not about to write on the board of ridiculousness.” Oh well. Now no one will ever know what I was going to say. Not even me because quite frankly I forgot.

Now on to more important things!

I’ve undergone a diet change. I no longer eat dinner, in the traditional sense. For the past few weeks, my parents and I decided it would be best to cut out fatty dinners entirely. Because we eat dinner at night, and go to sleep soon after, the food never gets burned off, or used as energy. It’s not an entirely new concept, but it’s still an interesting one. It’s definitely made it more difficult for me to cook new recipes. Nevertheless, I’ve decided to post a weird salad I tried the other night for dinner. There’s surprisingly a lot of flavor in it and I couldn’t even finish half of my bowl because it was so filling.

Ingredients:

-Lettuce

-Spinach

-Parsley leaves (whole)

-Kale, chopped

-Avocado

-Crushed almonds

-Chia seeds

-Apples sliced

-Feta cheese

-Walnuts

-Balsamic Vinegar

-Olive Oil

-Salt

-Pepper

 

Step One: Wash and chop all lettuce and kale. Wash parsley and spinach and detach leaves from stems but do not chop.

Step Two: Wash all other ingredients and add to salad. Add some balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt, and pepper for dressing to taste.

I know it looks really strange, but it tasted surprisingly good. I hope you try it! Enjoy the week!