mother-in-law salad

i'm sure lots of people would love to make a salad of their mother-in-law, but i happen to be blessed with TWO mothers-in-law who are both positively delightful. this is a salad my husband's mother threw together when we arrived at her home in tampa two weeks ago. i recreated it at home when i realized i could over-pay for a small quantity of queso fresco at trader joe's.

ingredients:

• 1-2 heads of lettuce
• 1 diced avocado
• 3 seeded, diced plum tomatoes
• 1 diced cucumber
• 8 ounces diced queso fresco, basket cheese or, if you must, fresh mozzarella
• 1/4 red onion, jullienned
• grilled chicken (about 3 ounces per diner)
• sliced olives
• olive oil
• the juice & zest of one lemon

prep:

• grill, dice juice, zest & tear as needed

actual cooking:

• combine

oh, it is soooooo goooooooooood. i can't even tell you.

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green bean salad

ingredients:

• 2 pounds green beans
• 1/4 of a red onion, matchstick-sized
• olive oil
• lemon juice

prep:

• end the beans

actual cooking:

• blanch the beans in boiling water for 1-2 minutes until BRIGHT GREEN
• toss with onions, oil & lemon juice
  

BRIGHT GREEN, mkay?