So one of my husband's, well, quirkier habits is that he likes to brew weird things like kombucha or homemade vinegar in our fridge. Generally, I don't love it - ok, I flat-out hate kombucha, it's like drinking rancid mold - but I live with it, because it makes him happy and the vinegar sometimes makes awesome salad dressings. Which it got to do this evening in Round 2 of the Salad Wars.
My husband got another chance at making the awesomest salad ever this evening. Here's his creation:
It's sort of a regular mixed-green salad underneath with a diner-style smothered chicken dish on top (chicken, mushrooms, cheese). My husband loves this type of combination, though I'm a wee bit more set in my ways about what constitutes a salad, so I ate the two parts separately. What I will say is that each of the individual parts was excellent. And it was super-awesome that one of his salads was made using the vinegar he's been brewing (or whatever it is that you do with vinegar - let it sit in a cool, dark place, from what I can tell).
With it, I had a Woodchuck hard cider, which I personally believe is about the most delicious alcoholic beverage around:
It's quite tasty, and seems to be taking off, which is awesome to see. I have been a fan of cider ever since studying abroad in Brittany, the region of France where they have... and I don't want to oversell this here... the BEST cider on the PLANET. I'm psyched to see Americans jumping on the cider wagon more than we have in the past. It's good stuff.
So tomorrow's episode of the Salad Wars will likely be a chicken/strawberry/sugared pecan/mixed veggie/cucumber/feta salad with a light raspberry dressing. Or a chicken Waldorf salad. I haven't decided yet. In the immortal words of Basil Fawlty, "Sorry, I think we're fresh out of Waldorfs..."
After Round 2 of the Salad Wars, his Burmese salad is in the lead. I have two nights in a row to defeat it before his next salad creation.
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