Tonight I got to be dishwashing royalty.
Okay, maybe I over-glorified my role just a tad.
Regardless, I had an awesome time suds-ing up the dishes at the Taste of Home Cooking School event that premiered in Morgantown tonight.
Where did I get such a sweet gig, you ask? My mom is undoubtedly the #1 Fan of Taste of Home’s Simple and Delicious Magazine. So, when the local food panel I sit on was asked to volunteer backstage at Taste of Home’s event, I jumped at the chance to bring mom along for some behind-the-scenes fun.
And fun we had.
They cooked up a storm at the event, and raffled off every dish they created for audience members to take home (backstage volunteers excluded unfortunately!). This event was not for the faint-of-heart: For instance, "Upside Down Banana Pecan French Toast" was first on the menu, complete with 2 cups of half and half (even my eyes widened at this one!).
Prior to all the dish-washing mania though, I chowed down on a dinner salad that I knew would power me through the next three hours on my feet, elbow-deep in Palmolive.
This baby was loaded with plenty of stick-to-your ribs fixins.' Let’s be honest: there’s really no other way to eat a dinner salad.
This dish-washing chick is exhausted. Fortunately it's dress-down Friday at work tomorrow.... If only dress-down day meant sweatpants and a hoodie :)
Stick-To-Your-Ribs Dinner Salad
(a very simple Hungry Spoon original)
This salad was quick and easy to throw together, and filled me up with all kinds of happiness. I don't have amounts for anything, because I just threw it all into the mix!
Ingredients:
- Fresh spinach, stemmed and chopped
- chopped avocado
- Chickpeas, rinsed and drained
- chopped broccoli
- chopped fresh tomato
- toasted pumpkin seeds
- Gorgonzola cheese
- Roasted garlic hummus
- Black bean salsa
- A little drizzle of balsamic vinaigrette
