green day

I am suddenly taken by vegetarianism. Is it even an -ism? Oh well.

The thing is, for the last 2 weeks or so, I've had the pleasure of being able, with the rest of 2 colleagues, to sneak into the staff dining lounge for our lunches. After 2 days of raiding the buffet, the food got a little old.

Why the hell is it always CURRY???? I mean, i would go there and see... CURRY chicken, then THAI STYLE CHILLI tofu, SAMBAL fish... and lastly, SAMBAL vege. WTF?? Do they REALLY want their dealers to walk around belching and smelling like prawn paste??

They had a "western" section of buffet - which was basically forever some kind of half cooked fettucini/macaroni with tasteless but EXCEPTIONALLY oily carbonara sauce. The god of italian cooking would've turned so many times in his grave, he'd drill himself a tunnel to china.

The good news is that they had a salad bar. And i dont usually go for the salad. But when i saw the steaming trays of chilli powder-laden food once again, i made a straight bee-line for the it.

It actually wasnt so bad. A scoop of corn, half a dozen cherry tomatoes, a handful of butterhead/red lettuce, several strips of cold roast beef and a spoonful of thousand isle and i was all set.

It actually tasted VERY good - much better than i had expected.

Began to look forward to lunch after that.

And then they BANNED us. All contractors were BANNED. All staff were forced to wear uniforms whenever they entered - effectively weeding out potential infiltrators.

Needless to say, i was devastated.

So i made my own.

I dropped by cold storage today on the way home. And within 15min, the salad was done and in my fridge, chilling for the following day. It was actually quite easy. I steamed a whole ear of corn, chopped up some lettuce, bought my own cherry tomatoes and i substituted the beef with canned salmon. I also swapped the thousand isle for some tangy SALSA, which properly masks the fishy taste of the salmon.

Seal in a tupperware lunchbox and leave in the fridge to chill overnight. Really looking forward to lunch tomorrow.