Ham, Asparagus and Mozzarella Salad; it’s organic!

 A cold salad can be just the thing for a hot summer evening. 

The eggs are hard-boiled and the asparagus blanched. As to the rest, it’s just a matter of assembling and serving.  

The small mozzarella balls are great for tossing with a salad; if you can’t find them, just roughly chop half of a larger, whole mozzarella. 

Serve some crusty, country bread on the side, if you like.

I had every intention of spending hours writing another witty and entertaining post.

Really, I did.

Then I had to fix mon mari’s printer (tech is my job; killing creepy-crawlies is his).

And I talked to my sister in the U.S. (always important, and not often enough).

I was just getting back to it when my computer mysteriously crashed.

Then the WiFi quit working and had to be attended to (it’s fixed)

I noticed that the sun was setting so I ran out to pick the lettuce for dinner.

There was a fine mist outside so I grabbed a jacket.

I should have grabbed a trowel…..

The lettuce was full of huge slugs.  Apparently they liked the nice, soft mist.

I didn’t notice right off.

Until I touched one.

Might I just say “EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW”

I always take a cutters with me when I pick lettuce, to trim and cut off the root ends to leave in the compost.

No, I didn’t cut the slugs – how could you think that? That would be just, just, just….. Icky!

I knocked them off the lettuce, picked them up on the flat blade and tossed them into the sunflower field.

Yes, it took rather a lot longer than if I had just picked them off but my method didn’t actually involve any finger-to-slug contact.

I also could have gone back to the house to get the person in charge of creepy-crawlies but that would have involved an argument discussion on the definition of creepy-crawly. I think slugs qualify, but the argument could be made that they are slitherers….. (spell check didn’t like that) rather than crawlers.

Regardless, I manged to get all the lettuce for dinner. When I went to the compost to do the trimming I noticed that the compost pile was covered in snails. I decided that was acceptable.

I also decided that I don’t think I will ever be as enthusiastic over escargot again.

Now I have to make dinner.

And have a glass of wine.

Before I wash the lettuce – in case I missed any creepy-slitherers I need fortification.

You do know that if you find slugs in the lettuce it’s organic, right?

You’ll just have to wait for the witty and entertaining post.