Slinger’s Fantasy Summer Salad

When I first spotted this salad recipe

on a site called

The Picky Cook,

I knew it fit my slinging style of cooking

because it said

‘no measuring needed’.

It is full of my favorite food groups:

three cheese tortellini, romaine lettuce, toasted pecans, feta cheese, and craisens.

First I prepared the tortellini according to the package instructions.

And then, I amazed myself.

(almost as much as thinking of the term flea marketeer)

I drizzled olive oil onto a sheet pan and cooled the tortellini , spread out on the pan.

They didn’t stick together like little concrete rocks because of the olive oil , and they weren’t touching each other.

Who knew???

(you all did, right?)

I then toasted the pecans in a dry copper skillet

and amazed myself even more.

It worked, and I didn’t walk off, even once,

to start a new project,

or dig in a drawer.

Phenergen cough medicine with codeine (I am into my second week of bronchitis)

has my mental/fantasy synapses clicking.


I used my purple nesting bowl Daughter #1 gave me from

Sur le Table

and the fantasy tripled.


At that point, I was a French chef.

After dumping  carefully layering the above ingredients,

(chilled tortellini, feta cheese, romaine lettuce, toasted pecans, and craisens)

I brought out my boyfriend Paul Newman’s

Balsamic Vinaigrette.

Way to go Picky Cook!

www.pickycook.com