summer in october

Today it was eighty degrees out, humid, heavens full of big fluffy sky-colored clouds. People without family in Florida complained of the humidity. But when the weather is this cozy and congenial in a famously freezing city this late in the season, I can't find a reason to complain.

Instead, we're having Florida Salad for dinner -- baby greens topped with slivers of leftover rosemary-balsamic chicken, dressed with my stepfather's trademark addictive salad dressing:

Don's Florida Salad Dressing

3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1 generous tsp white pepper
1 generous tsp sea salt (coarse grained is good)

Combine, shake, let sit for an hour or so until the salt dissolves. Mmmmm. This isn't the season for them, but try this dressing over good fresh tomatoes.

thus spake /jca @ October 29, 2004 06:55 PM