Does this sound like an interesting salad for lunch? (Keep in mind that I am one of the st*pid vegetarian ilk.)
There is a local upscaley grocery store just around the block from where I work and they have a pretty decent salad bar that I will hit a few times a week. They had an already prepared salad of: 𝓕𝓪𝓻𝓯𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮 pasta (one of my favourite pasta shapes and just plain fun to say), spinach, roasted (red) bell peppers (How come you hardly ever see roasted green bell peppers?), balls of 𝓜𝓸𝔃𝔃𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓪 𝓭𝓲 𝓫𝓾𝓯𝓪𝓵𝓪 (about the size of jawbreakers, but of course these couldn't), and dried cranberries (I know it is used in the preservation process, but I wish they did not add any sugar to these true botanical berries), with some sort of light vinaigrette dressing. They have several separate items around the salad bar which you can add in or just use to prepare your own salad-concoction, so I added some chopped kale (at the bottom of the heap), 𝙆𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙖 olives, chickpeas, and edamame. I then nuked the entire salad for thirty seconds back at work to take the chill off it a bit and to warm it all up (especially the kale on the bottom).
I did not see any sundried tomatoes (which they do sometimes offer at the salad bar... I did state this was an upscaley joint, right?) or 𝙥𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙨 (shelled, unsalted, and raw pumpkin seeds; which I would have added for a little extra-added crunchosity and flavour).
In addition, I also got a fresh-baked that morning 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓸 𝓭𝓲 𝓒𝓲𝓪𝓫𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓪 to eat with the salad, as I am a bit of a bread-a-holic. Woe (or "Whoa!") is me if I ever become diabetic. (Like many of my food preferences) I blame my bread addiction on 𝓶𝓲𝓸 𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓷𝓸 𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓸.
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cacciatore with rice 
