dinner without the husband

last week, the husband traveled to texas for a conference. he was gone the entire week, which meant that:
-there was much less laundry for the baron to do
-the baron stayed up past her usual 8pm bedtime to let the dogs out every night
-the baron rose much earlier every morning to let the dogs out - and to feed them breakfast
-the baron had no one to cook for... so she had a series of lazy gal's meals (see the salad below)

that's lettuce, alfalfa sprouts, chickpeas, pepperoncinis, cherry tomatoes, and dried bing cherries, doused in olive oil and red wine vinegar. yummy yummy yum.


the baron has decided that salads are an amazing dinner choice because after the meal, there's only one dish to wash! true, the cutlery would need to be washed as well, but reader, at the end of a salad night one would have no more than 5 pieces of kitchenware to attend to!

did the baron mention, she hates washing dishes? so much so that she'll use the same water glass over and over again, for days, so she won't have to wash it?

when the husband is home, he does the dishes (not all the time, but most of the time, and YES the baron knows how lucky she is in this regard). when he's gone, the baron tries to mitigate her dish use. it's a fairly juvenile way to live. she knows it.