Sum Sum Summertime Salad

 We needed something to go with leftovers tonight.

 He's having leftover sloppy jo, and I'll be having tilapia because I am still cutting way back on red meat.

Pasta salad was a no brainer. Tri colored spiral pasta, red onion, bell pepper, green olives, broccoli florets, all doused in Zesty Italian dressing and then topped with cherry tomatoes and a good sprinkling of black pepper.

No cooking involved other than boiling the pasta.

Such an easy and delicious summer salad that goes with the meat of your choosing.  

Or eat it alone.

Can't go wrong with this dish!

Been A While

I'm not sure I have ever gone this long without a blog post, and there's no good excuse for it except that I really had no desire to post.

Maybe it's a sign of a change in the season.

(shrugs shoulders)

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Here are a few photos fro the past week.

 Our boxers seem to have morphed into one very long eight legged pup.

We had a heavy rain last week as you can see in this photo I snapped just after coming out of the mall  of the clouds hanging low over the mountains.

 Last night my husband grilled some super thick, yummy chops on the grill and requested some of my tri-colored pasta salad topped with artisan tomatoes.  

I obliged and made him a HUGE bowl of it of which we will be eating a bit more of this evening.

 Springtime and warmer temperatures as we had the past couple of days always lends itself to more grilling and more salads.

 Not a fabulous shot, but again... rainy photo from last week as I drove home.

 I pulled into our lane,

 and then stopped to see what was in our mailbox.

See.... not a whole lot going on here in my world,

just sitting around waiting for springtime

to send us some buds and blooms.

HURRY SPRING!