Cooking with gas

 Well I cooked up most of the ham and made pasta salad with it, whole grain pasta, some canned kidney beans.  

I am cheating on the Dal recipe, it calls for about half a cup of dry kidney beans to be cooked.  I have cooked red kidney beans and they take forever.  I'm cheating and using them from a can.  They are not cooked with seasoning, the spices I'm using basically say add the spice at the end of the cook.  

So I had half a can of red kidney beans and some ham.  I thought that would make a good pasta salad and I made that happen.  I did dice and fry the ham as I like my meat cut up already, and the ham nice and golden.  It would have been fantastic if I had some chopped onions in there when I did the ham but I didn't think of it in time.  Next time.  

I had to throw out all my dressing this summer during the power outage and I didn't buy more.  But I have apple cider vinegar.  I have olive oil and herbs.  So I made my own on the fly just whisked it together.  It is so good I wish I had some bread to sop up the leftovers.  I think I'll just make my own dressing from now on that was super easy.  And nothing hydrogenated or processed in MY dressing!  

I got 3 - 4 bowls out of that.  So that's in the fridge along with the chickpea masala.  I am making Dal later on.  And a stir fry with some of the ham I saved.  Ham, ramen noodles, mixed veggies, some teriyaki sauce, sounds good to me.  

I am doing dishes as I go that is easier.  I need to do the henna in a minute, I have roots at my hairline.  I found a few weeks ago I could apply a small amount and wrap up, go about my day, wash it out 4 hours later and no more roots.  I love my hair.  Everyone loves my hair.  I want to keep it fresh.  

I already washed my hair with clarifying shampoo.  It's not completely dry yet at the application site.