a post about salad

i love salads, they are one of my favorite foods. many times, like Elaine on Seinfeld, I just really want a big salad (no this is not a pregnancy thing, i have always loved salad). A few years ago, when I was first dating Nelson, he introduced me to the Greek salad and the olive. I had never really had many olives or greek salads growing up I think because my parents do not like olives. ever since that first taste of the greek salad and the olive, my world has pretty much been changed forever (the fact that my world was changing could have had something more to do with the fact that I was dating Nelson but I am not sure if that would be giving the olive enough credit :) ). anyway, i learned of a new salad while we were in dallas and it involves both the green and black olive. lettuce, chopped red onion, green olives, black olives, diced banana peppers, feta or parmesean (or both) cheese, and italian dressing. fantastic. but the olive is actually a side note to the point of this post (I just had to give it credit though for changing my life). The real point is that my love of salad has now been taken to a new level because of my new salad spinner and lettuce knife. Nelson got me both of these for christmas and i used them both tonight. i was really feeling a salad and macaroni and cheese. so that is what we had (plus hot dogs for nelson). the lettuce was perfectly dried after a few twirls in the spinner and perfectly chopped after some swipes with my lettuce knife. so all of this to say, if you love salad and do not have a salad spinner or a lettuce knife, you need them both. Here is where you can get them-
lettuce knife
salad spinner