I heard of this new food fad - preparing salads in mason jars and storing them in your frig for up to a week or two. Being a huge salad eater - and making a salad for my family nearly every night - I surfed the web to see what people are doing.
How pretty these look! And supposedly they stay crisp as long as the dressing is on the bottom, and hard vegetables that can take the marinade lie on top of the dressing. There are tons of photos and salad ideas on pinterest and the web.
I've been trying my own this week and took one to work every day - it was GREAT - they remained fresh and good and I'm figuring I must be saving money by not going to the salad bar every day.
Since I make so many salads a home I usually wash a lot of lettuce at once and store it in tupperware or plastic zip locks. Unfortunately I often get really brown unusable leaves. I used to give those to our ducks. But our ducks have left us (another post for sure), and I've been throwing out a lot of veges.
If I wanted to store a weeks worth of salad for my family of 4 (now that the boys are home), I'd have to have 28 jars lined up in the frig. I'm not sure how practical that would be. But for work? For work they are awesome!
And what about for gifts? I'm thinking these would be great for someone not feeling so well, or someone who needs a little pick me up.
These are my four. Not as pretty as the ones above, but they'll taste great. Yes, that's a pickle jar in the back. Works just fine. This isn't rocket science. :)
I'll share my dressing "recipe" that everyone LOVES. It's the only dressing my boys would eat for years. My mom told me about this little secret - don't laugh - it's so very easy:
Real Easy and Good Salad Dressing
Take a pouch of Good Seasons Italian All Natural Salad Dressing & Recipe Mix.
Make as directed on the package using BALSAMIC vinegar for the vinegar ingredient.
I love scrapbooking kits. I started scrapbooking in 2001 and for years did not buy a kit. It was in 2009, during a creative scrapbooking slump, that I took the plunge into the world of kits.
I bought a kit from Kenner Road owned by the wonderful and and talented Kerry Lynn Yeary. Kerry doesn't sell traditional kits anymore, although you can find printable kits at her Etsy Shop. And she happens to create wonderful projects from the next kit shop I bought from. There's something to this scrapbooking kit thing, I thought.
My next kit was from Jenni Bowlin Studio Mercantile. Having a collection of coordinating and unique crafting items in front of me got my creative mind working again. I tried to work just from the kit with a few added basics from my stash. It was a different approach to scrapbooking for me and made me love scrapbooking once more.
The kit inspired me!
This exclusive stamp in this months papercrafting kit at JBS Mercantile is an example of how a kit can inspire. The old fashioned camera image and text on the stamp brough images of film negatives to mind and I used a plastic negative sleeve holder to create this layout.
The colors in this months kit are gorgeous. The teal, gray, and yellow are stunning with black and whites.
