We Ate It Before It Wilted: Chicken Fried Bacon Salad and Beet Hummus!

KELLY * DINNER * July 9

Finally making it around to the blog. The last couple days have been plain hectic -- finished editing my book yesterday and had a lovely day out with Michael D (and the Joan Rivers doc). So, here are the Sunday delicacies. The good news is that I finally found a way to enjoy a beet: beet hummus (click for recipe). What is beet hummus you ask? Well, it's exactly what you think it is. Just switch out the chickpeas for boiled beets. (I also discovered that if you boil beets the peels just come right off. Cool. Who knew?) Anyway, our box-mates were coming over to pick up their veg so we had a beet hummus and cheese extravaganza. One bag of crackers, much hummus, and hunk of cheese...GONE! We had a couple beers. No one was very motivated toward moving or cooking. Conversations about Papa Johns were flying about. Liz and box-mate Brian decided that life would be easier and tastier if we just made a salad together. Jaimie and I were largely useless in this process, but Liz and Brian ultimately presented a lovely salad. True, there was a minor bacon burning debacle and they improvised by frying some of the leftover 4th of July chicken with the bacon pieces to make a lovely chicken fried bacon event. So, in the end, we had 2 kinds of fresh lettuce, kohlrabi, sweet onions, cucumber, and zucchini (all from the CSA box) spiced up with red pepper, blue cheese, chicken fried bacon (and chicken), and Liz's homemade honey-Dijon dressing. In short, I call it a win! (a bacon-y win.) My only regret was that we were totally starch-less (and I do NOT believe in a starch-less meal).