Recipe Swap: Summer Salad

Summer Salad--thanks Rebecca G., from our Carbon Canyon days!


This is how hilarious/ridonkulous our lives are right now:

Our oven caught on fire while I was baking bread Sunday and that isn't even in the Top 100 of Nutty Things That Have Happened Since Sunday list.

But my point!

We're not baking/cooking this week.

So, tonight we're having this yummy cold salad w/ some store-baked bread (eeek!). Thanks to my friend Rebecca for sharing it:

Summer Salad

4 cups avocados, diced
2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved
2 cups cubed cucumbers, peeled, diced
1 red onion, sliced
4 TBS cilantro, diced
2 TBS garlic, minced
2 TBS lime juice
1/4 cup olive oil
salt
black pepper
* lettuce (if ya like)

1. Toss all ingredients and place on a bed of lettuce (if ya like).

Serves 8
 

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And in unrelated Meehan news:
Zu made this awesome card for a friend.
(And yes, I still can't rotate a photo.)
 

My BFF, Whittney has a bday this coming week (18th).
This photo is from the Survivor Caramoan Loved Ones Visit last year. She's here with Dre Dre's sister.



Bam is busy perfecting the art of sublock tattoos.


Jr. and Zu are working in the Chopped At-Home Kitchen, helping me make yesterday's
STOVETOP Coconut Curry Chicken.

 
BYU Alumni sent me this really cool letter--congratulating me on Survivor.

Jay's getting ready to leave for his service mission (2 years).
(And yes, the big facial expressions run in the family. Even though we are all adopted! It's a Meehan trait. We're theatre people--playing to the backrow, making sure everyone can SEE what we mean/feel.)



Lu's got her 10th bday coming up. About 8 days away.
(She cannot wait. Top on her list of "Bday Presents"? A dog.)


Oh, and Papaya leaves for girls camp next Monday.
(Thank goodness it's only 6 days. No more 39 day campouts for the Meehans. Unless it's with a Winnebago.)



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