Help!…

Last Sunday, I cooked some fried mihun for breakfast and there was enough left over for dinner. We had lunch outside after the church service that morning, you see, and other than the mihun, I also cooked this soup to go with it. Then, I thought I might as well fry some vegetables for the roughage but horror of horrors!!! When I opened the fridge, I found that there wasn’t any in it…and I had no intention of driving to the nearby supermarket to buy some.

In the end, I decided to make a salad. There was a bit of tuna left…

– we had that for sandwiches for breakfast one morning but I cannot remember exactly when now…and I threw in some prawns that I had boiled plus a bit of sliced shallots.

Next, I boiled a potato and cut that into cubes and in it went as well, together with some bacon that I had grilled till crispy in a  non-stick pan…

I mixed all that together…

…and yes, I did add it some sliced chili as well – more for the colour than anything else as it was absolutely hopeless, not spicy at all and quite tasteless.

Hmmm…I thought it could do with a little bit of green so I added a bit of the Thai basil/mint from  my garden…

…and after that, I added what was left of the thousand island dressing that I had bought a while ago…

There wasn’t really enough so I added a little bit of the condensed milk that my friend brought for me all the way from the US. I guessed that would help counter or balance the sour taste of the salad dressing.

I tossed everything and voila! My salad was ready…

Was it good? Well, I certainly would think so…though I must say it did look quite a mess. Perhaps, if I had served it in a plate with cucumber and tomato slices round the side and some parsley on top, it would appear more presentable. I certainly would do that if I were to serve that at a dinner party at my house, I guess…