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Here's the recipe for the salad I mentioned last week which made shining my sink complicated...so you've been warned that cilantro is stealthy in your sink, okay?

Asian Chicken Salad
Serves 6

3/4 cup Asian-style salad dressing
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
2 tablespoons gingerroot, grated (or if you're lazy like me, the powdered ginger from your spice cabinet)
1 bag washed spinach (or generic bag o' salad)
1 small red pepper, chopped (we skip this part because peppers are gross, but you might like 'em...)
3 cups cooked chicken, chopped (tofu would work great as well)
1/2 cup honey roasted peanuts
1 mango, peeled and sliced

Mix dressing, cliantro and ginger in a small bowl.

Toss spinach, red bell pepper, chicken and nuts in a large bowl with enough dressing to coat evenly.  Season to taste with salt and pepper and divide evenly among 6 plates.  Top with mango and serve.

I got this from savingdinner.com :)

I found the lolcat this morning and it seemed a propos since, lately, everytime we try to watch Scrubs in syndication in the evening, we end up having to cover Isaac's eyes or cleverly distract him into another room to stop SCARY COMMERCIALS from FREAKY MOVIES opening in JANUARY for some reason from giving him nightmares.



I mean, really.  Scrubs!  At freakin' 6pm!  Is it too much to ask that they wait to scare the pants off of my toddler until after the universally accepted bedtime of 8pm?

My Bloody Valentine is the worst offender in quantity, but that one with the girl who's unborn twin that died in the womb is coming after her wins the ew gross scary image award...if you've seen it you know what I mean.

Indignant Erika is indignant.

If everyone is working *for* the weekend, then why am I always working so hard *on* the weekend?

Busy couple of days coming up, which seem all the more busy after these few days of chillin' we've had around here.  Starting this morning with an extra elder care client at 8:30 - whee!

I got a sticker yesterday - shined my sink, did 4000+ steps, and processed coupons for 15 minutes.  The sink almost did me in, though...we had an Asian Chicken Salad with lots of tiny spices and components that kept hiding in the sink and when I thought I was done shining it was all "hey, look, cilantro in the corner!" or "where did that carrot sliver come from?"
Side note - I miss having a garbage disposal.  What did people do before garbage disposals?  I've never washed dishes at a non-disposal sink until we moved here, and I don't like it.