Lunch today. . .

You know, what I love about watching food network is that it makes me think more creatively about my food and meals -- I actually think I eat and cook healthier when I'm in food network mode. So today we had some salad we needed to eat -- lunch was set except that I wanted to make the salad a little more interesting -- didn't really want to grill chicken, had no sandwich meat in the frig. . . did have some leftover chili, but not very much, and a piece of cornbread. . . .so. . . .I filled 2 platters with a beautiful tossed salad, served a small ramekin of chili alongisde, split the cornbread, drizzled butter over it and toasted it, served the salad with a sun-dried tomato dressing, and can I just say YUMMO?!?!?!?!? It really was quite delicious -- our very own soup and salad lunch -- all leftovers, all scrumptious, and beautiful to boot!!!!!!!!! Rock on food network -- thanks for enriching my life

BTW, if you've never tried freshly grated nutmeg, you're missing out on one of the simple pleasures of life -- another food network (Rachael Ray) inspiration -- 99 cents at World Market will get you a pouch of several nutmeg nuts(?). You can use a little hand grater. . .awesome!

So, go get cooking! what are you waiting for????