My mother’s wooden salad bowl, a Goodwill find (back in the days when Goodwill was called – wait for it – “Crippled Civilian”, NO KIDDING!!!!), recently cracked beyond repair. Unable, somehow, to throw it out, I stuck it on the shelf in a bottom cabinet in our kitchen. Serendipitously, we recently found another, similar wooden salad bowl at our local Goodwill store, and it is now our main serving bowl of choice for all manner of creative concoctions, from beet-celery salad to mango with toasted almond slivers .
But this evening, this evening at dinner, it was my mother’s old, cracked salad bowl that sat on the dining room table at dinner time, its sprung wood piece now so severely hanging off the edge that filling the bowl to the top is no longer a wise choice for fear of losing half one’s salad!
A flavoursome, fresh green salad stood at attention inside the bowl, waiting to be gobbled down alongside a delicious coconut curry. Amidst the lettuce were hidden succulent chunks of grapefruit and litchi. Sprinkled on top of this tasty concoction was a mix of toasted sesame seeds and sliced almonds.
I smiled to myself after I sat down to dinner… my mother, an avid fan of fresh and interesting dishes, would definitely have approved of the contents of her battered old Goodwill treasure!
But this evening, this evening at dinner, it was my mother’s old, cracked salad bowl that sat on the dining room table at dinner time, its sprung wood piece now so severely hanging off the edge that filling the bowl to the top is no longer a wise choice for fear of losing half one’s salad!
A flavoursome, fresh green salad stood at attention inside the bowl, waiting to be gobbled down alongside a delicious coconut curry. Amidst the lettuce were hidden succulent chunks of grapefruit and litchi. Sprinkled on top of this tasty concoction was a mix of toasted sesame seeds and sliced almonds.
I smiled to myself after I sat down to dinner… my mother, an avid fan of fresh and interesting dishes, would definitely have approved of the contents of her battered old Goodwill treasure!
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