Lettuce

– The great thing about this time of year is that you are not tied to the cooker: you can just throw a salad together and sit happily in the garden to enjoy the light evenings.
– Apart from the thunderstorms: there have been quite a few thunderstorms recently.
– Well, of course, you wouldn't particularly want to sit outside during a thunderstorm. Certainly not with a fork in your hand.
– And I still seem to be tied to the cooker when preparing salad.
– You're obviously doing something wrong.
– There was the quiche.
– Excellent eaten cold.
– And the potato salad.
– I suppose raw potatoes offer an interesting texture, but, yes, are probably even better cooked. But these things can be prepared ahead of time.
– When?
– Well, during the thunderstorms. Think of all the time you had this weekend for preparing potato salad, yet you wait till the sun is out.
– Perhaps I was uncertain whether the sun would ever come out again.
– Potato salad will always come in useful.
– But it is disheartening to be sitting indoors, watching the rain stream down the windows, with nothing to eat but cold potatoes in a soggy mayonnaise dressing.
– A handful of chopped chives also works well.
– I'll try and remember that.