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MissMillie

(39,458 posts)
8. "salad bowls"
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:24 AM
Sep 23

In our house a "salad bowl" is a big bowl that is 1/2 pasta salad and 1/2 garden salad. to make it hearty, we throw protein (usually hard-boiled egg, shaved parmesan and whatever meat we have leftover in the fridge) on top.

The pasta salad in last night's meal was a pesto pasta salad, employing a pesto I made from basil in the garden. It was my first attempt at homemade pesto. I was happy with it.

Here's what dinner looked like:

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