Thinking of you's working up an appetite

I don’t know if it was the fact that I was swimming at noon or the fact that my husband was swimming in the next lane over, but for some reason I was building the most elaborate salade nicoise in my head for our lunch as I swam lap after lap today.

I had gone to the farmers’ market earlier this morning, so I had beautiful ripe tomatoes and fragrant basil, as well as baby new potatoes.

Here’s what went into the salad we ate for lunch:

Baby lettuces
Dark red tomatoes sliced
Small orange tomatoes
Marinated roasted beets and carrots
Shaved raw carrots
Snipped basil
Cubed roasted potatoes
Sliced hard-boiled egg sprinkled with paprika
Olives
Vinaigrette dressing made with fresh dill

Slice of cantaloupe melon on the side

It looked like a lot of salad, but salad never leaves you with that feeling of being overly full.

“Thinking of you’s working up an appetite,
Gonna have a little afternoon delight.”