Salad Frenzy

I know, I know. It's been awhile. Finals, the holidays and life in general have me swamped. I do realize I say something like this every time I post now. It's annoying.

So, Thanksgiving is over which means that nothing stands in my way to Christmas! I love it! We went to N.C. to hang with Scott's folks and had a blast. I really like the town of Raleigh. It's one of those little big cities that have enough to offer all cultural tastes, but isn't so big that it's intimidating. I dig college towns and it's one of them. The one drawback to living in a college town, though, would be the bars. There's like one on every corner. This is fine and years ago, I would have been all over that. This year, though, I just wanted to walk around and shop. Scott and I finally saw it as a sign, though, that we were supposed to stop in and have a drink because the shopping in the city was pretty much a dud. We went to this Irish pub called the Hibernian and had lunch and a couple drinks. Their Bloody Marys were perfect. I chose the Greek salad and was rewarded ten fold. This thing was a giant. The presentation was the coolest I've ever seen. The base of the salad were these gargantuan slices of tomato- no lettuce. The stacked upon each other in a culinary totem were cucumbers, artichokes, carrots, onions. And it tasted as good as it looked. The salad was doubly impressive because the day before I'd gorged myself on the typical Thanksgiving foods and felt like a big blob of mashed potato all day. The salad totally energized me. Okay, I know, enough about the salad...

Attached are some photos. I'll try to post a little more often. Should be easier in the interim between semesters.