Veggies In A Basket, And Then A Salad.

The Striderling and I took a jaunt down to our local farm produce stand last week and came back with this basket of goodies. The tomatoes were discounted to .50/lb because of defects, but they and everything but the corn in the basket were grown by a naturally grown farm less than ten minutes from our house. Incidentally, I borrowed the basket from Striderling's toy shelf. His occupational therapist found an onion skin in it a few days later while we were doing therapy. Oops....

Anyway. I had plans for these vegetables! We had a can of black beans in the pantry and some chicken thawing in the fridge and I thought a chicken/black bean salad sounded lovely. I ended up doing a fusion of two recipes with some modifications of my own. Fusion in the HG's cookery world, by the way, is defined as Never Having The Complete Ingredients For One Recipe So Sort of Making It Up As We Go Along.

Making It Up As We Go Along seemed to work out quite well in this case....

Strider loooooved it, which is saying a lot, because tomatoes are not always on his friendly list. I loved it too, but that's not surprising, because every single ingredient is on my friendly list. The salad was gone within the hour, leaving two very happy people in its wake.

(why, yes! that *is* my trusty little wooden cutting board you see there...)