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Hot Cuisine

HOT CUISINE

Today is day two of temperatures in the 90s and very high humidity. I am not a fan of this kind of weather. Yesterday, my parents invited me over to supper – so I didn’t have to think of what to have for supper.

I arrived home tonight around 5:30 PM – my apartment a comfortable 74 degrees with the AC on. I knew that I would be having a nice cool salad for supper. You wouldn’t catch me heating up the apartment by using the stove. So, I fed the cat. Molly always has to eat first because she is STARVING to DEATH from not having me around during the day to beg snacks from. I took out a plate – filled it with prepackaged salad and crumbled up a slice of 50% Cabot cheese on top. I then opened the refrigerator to get the salad dressing and noticed that I didn’t have any! What to do? What to do?

Luckily, I am known for my Haute Cuisine, and looked at what I had. Hmmm – a half jar of RAGU No Sugar Added spaghetti sauce! That would do. I measured out a 1/2 cup (1 Weight Watcher point – much better than the 3 points for 2 tablespoons of a low calorie dressing, by the way). I poured it over my salad.
(Yes, I live a lone … I don’t know how a spouse would take such a meal – would one of you try it out and let me know how it goes?)

I was brought up to always clean my plate, so I got out one piece of diet bread (1 WW point) and spread some Smart Balance margarine on it to soak up all the goodness left on the plate. Viola – a clean plate.

Don’t knock it until you try it. It was not bad at all! Any port in a storm as they say. By the way, if I had cottage cheese in the house, I would have had cold baked beans and cottage cheese for supper. Now that is GOOD food!

Keep cool!