Salads are always good for a meal for me.  They are easy to make for one person – except potato salad, pasta salad or fruit salad.  Have you ever noticed how those grow from a medium to a large bowl?  At least mine do.

I am accused of messing up too many dishes when I cook.  This is due in part to my inability to judge the correct size bowl, pan or baking dish my meal requires.  When I had children at home a pasta salad might take 3 bowls to get it right.  The first one was way too small, the second was just right, but I had to room to give it all a good toss.  Thus a third and much larger bowl was required.  When it came time to store it in the refrigerator to chill, I might have been able to go back to the original (second) bowl which by then may have had something else put in it.  At that point I would look for another medium size bowl to store the salad in the refrigerator.  When it was time to toss it again, I usually had to retrieve that larger bowl.  I did try to reuse the bowl which was just the right size for the refrigerator upon completion of the essential toss and taste portion of the recipe.  Now, of course, there is a dish I will choose to stage for a photo for this blog. This is an entirely new dimension to the cleaning routine.

The same is true for vegetable soup.  I try to make a portion for just a few meals, but I always end up with the largest soup pan.  I have even been known to overflow the pressure cooker if I get carried away with chopping veggies before I add the stock.

This makes perfectly good sense to me.  Dirty dishes in the sink are the sign of a good day.  Happy, happy!  Since I am the one cleaning up, who cares?

The same was true for this little Watermelon Salad.  This was the best seedless watermelon I have ever had.  I hope I get some more during the summer.  My luck isn’t too good in picking perfect ones.   I made this for Saturday dishes which starts bright and early tomorrow. Make sure to come and share your salad recipes!