Sylvia's Scenario

I am continuing my quest for more summer salads.  One salad that I eat a lot for lunch is this  Green Goddess Salad with Tuna .  I've changed it up recently now with the addition of beans and this recipe has an easier salad dressing of just olive oil and lemon juice so it's super easy.  I love a tuna salad for lunch or any salad with chicken breast which can be easily substituted in both these recipes.  This tuna chickpea salad is another recipe from  Hannah Freese, RD   and Bruce loves it as much as I do.   I like adding it to a bed of lettuce because the salad dressing tastes good with lettuce, too.  I generally don't drain the can of tuna so I get lots of juice in the mixture.  That allows extra liquid for the salad dressing so there is plenty for the lettuce, too.  Hannah's recipes are all part of my "anti-inflammatory diet".  I really got to test it out these past few weeks because I had my second total knee replacement on May 11th.  I didn't really t

Tomorrow is Mother's Day and I get to have a restful day while, at the same time, I get to eat good food.  What could be better than that?  Bruce got a salmon that we plan to barbecue and since Nick has been requesting teriyaki salmon, we'll marinate this salmon with my family favorite  teriyaki sauce .  I plan to make my last posted recipe  Persian Chopped Salad  because I didn't get enough of it last time.  Mother's Day is a lot like Easter when it comes to the menu.   So, Bruce suggested we have another popular dish,  Orzo with Mushrooms and Walnuts , that we haven't had in a long time.  The final item we're going to make is this Crispy Prosciutto-Wrapped Asparagus that we had on Easter.  We got a free bunch of asparagus at our local grocery store since this is asparagus season and the prosciutto turns it into a special occasion dish like Mother's Day.  I think for dessert, we'll do strawberry short cake which is something simple and the grandkids lov