{"id":1522,"date":"2010-06-01T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/01\/warm-weather-meal\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:36:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:36:20","slug":"warm-weather-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/01\/warm-weather-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm weather meal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s getting warmer and warmer here in the desert. Actually, I&#8217;m not really complaining, since we had an unusually cool (for us) spring. However, now that cooler weather is gone for the duration, and we&#8217;re hitting the 90s now, with temperatures over 100 beginning next weekend. Have I mentioned that my sewing room faces west? That really makes it difficult to stay comfortable in these warmer months. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2729.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"300\" width=\"273\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2729-273x300.jpg?resize=273%2C300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Today I decided that those leftover pieces of grilled chicken in our refrigerator would make a pretty good chicken salad for our dinner, with the addition of whatever else was handy and some homemade pasta to add to it. I used a pasta extruder attachment for my mixer and ended up with quite a nice little batch of fusilli, half of which went into the salad and half of which is now in my freezer for a future meal. You can see the extruder cranking out the fusilli in the photo.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2731.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2731-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">A little homemade lemon mayonnaise to bind the chicken, pasta and vegetables together, and I have a nice-looking and refreshing dinner chilling and all ready to go! \ud83d\ude42 <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting warmer and warmer here in the desert. Actually, I&#8217;m not really complaining, since we had an unusually cool (for us) spring. However, now that cooler weather is gone for the duration, and we&#8217;re hitting the 90s now, with temperatures over 100 beginning next weekend. Have I mentioned that my sewing room faces west? 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