At my local Price Chopper Grocery I buy a small loaf of multi-grain bread that you bake for only 15 minutes and tastes so, so good. Full of seeds and grains and nice brown crust, my favorite part of bread. I knew if I baked the bread I would be crazy enough to eat the whole thing so decided I better have a pretty healthy salad to go with it. I get so tired of lettuce salad and after opening the frig and all the cabinets made this up to go with my bread…give it a try it was really quite good.
A fresh bunch of spinach
Small can of crushed pineapple (I would have preferred chunks but didn’t have any)
Handful of slivered almonds
One thin slice of red onion (I just love this onion)
1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger
Small piece of ham steak, chopped (cooked up to 3/4 cup meat)
I opened the pineapple and drained all of the juice into a non-stick skillet and with heat on med-lo I put the clean spinach leaves in and covered with a lid for about 10 minutes. Check on it because I didn’t time it so I am guessing.
While that is steaming I chopped up the ham and threw it into another non-stick skillet on med-hi and let it sizzle until lightly browned and smelled wonderful.
When I checked on the spinach about half way through the wilting process I added the ginger and stirred up the spinach to distribute.
Pulled down a plate and placed the spinach, ham, a large tablespoon or more of the crushed pineapple, almonds, onion and in no time at all I had a healthy salad.
Notice I had lots of real butter on my hot bread too…and yes I ate that whole loaf and I wonder why I am gaining weight?
