We celebrated my birthday this week. Yep. 39 again.
Our friend Joe Tingen offers this reminder. We were all young once. Remember your "salad days"? Remember those times of "youthful indiscretion"? "The good old days" or our "heydays"? Joe says youth, like a good salad, is fresh and green.
I certainly was fresh. Got me in a lot of trouble. It also made life more interesting.
As spring heads to summer, here's a salad for you. Fresh and green, like our misspent youth.
Tri-Color Rotini Salad (for 4)
1 pkg tri-color rotini pasta
6 oz feta cheese crumbled
8 cherry tomatoes halved
1 red pepper seeded & chopped
1 green pepper seeded & chopped
3 large cloves garlic crushed
8 sliced stuffed olives
8 sliced ripe olives
4 cups mixed salad greens
1 loaf hot, sliced Italian bread
1 bottle of your favorite white wine
Dressing
3 tbs balsamic vinegar
6 tbs olive oil
2 tsp dried Italian herbs
1/4 tsp each salt & pepper
Chill white wine. Cook pasta by package directions and drain. Mix dressing thoroughly and in a large bowl toss all ingredients with dressing except salad greens. Cover and refrigerate two hours.
To serve, nest greens on serving platters and top with marinated ingredients. Serve with hot bread. Open chilled white wine. Enjoy.
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Happy Birthday Jerry!
Happy Birthday Jerry!
I've tried to speak a foreign language! It's not easy. And with French I still have no success at all. And I am relying on your book about leadership a lot these days. As an editor-in-chief I have to work with bright people who can't be controlled. I have to inspire them and trust them if I want the job to be done. It's impossible to ask them to create a piece of journalistic art today and to behave like they are in the army tomorrow. Ilona Fanta
(Ilona edits a newspaper in Poltava, Ukraine, speaks three languages and has been our interpreter four times.)
Our friend Ilona Fana writes: "I've tried to speak a foreign language! It's not easy. And with French I still have no success at all. And I am relying on your book about leadership a lot these days. As an editor-in-chief I have to work with bright people who can't be controlled. I have to inspire them and trust them if I want the job to be done. It's impossible to ask them to create a piece of journalistic art today and to behave like they are in the army tomorrow."
(Ilona edits a newspaper in Poltava, Ukraine, speaks three languages and has been our interpreter four times.)
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