I mentioned recently that Elwood had made an apple-fennel salad I loved, and Alexandra asked for the recipe. It's a simple one from the NYT: combine thin-sliced apples with fennel and celery in a lemon-olive oil dressing; add toasted walnuts. They call for Parmesan cheese but I'm not convinced it's necessary.
There is another batch of apple-fennel salad in our fridge at the moment, and I decided that I would serve myself a pile of it on top of a pile of sliced cabbage, because A Cabbage A Day Keeps Your Microbiome Happy; It's Science.
I added a comment to my post from yesterday with a few more details about the study I mentioned, and out of curiosity I weighed my cabbage before I added anything to it. Result: 45 grams. That is FIVE PERCENT of two pounds, you guys. I would have to eat TWENTY of those piles of cabbage. I cannot decide whether I find this more horrifying or hilarious.
Tonight I stopped at one pile of cabbage, served underneath one pile of apple-fennel salad, alongside Elwood's tomato soup and a grilled-cheese sandwich. Gotta say, I'd rather lead a life of pleasant cozy varied fall dinners than a life filled with radish sprouts and pureed broccoli, in which I was "instructed...not to consume any other foods or beverages, except water."
I guess my microbiome will have to adapt.
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