Salad & Focaccia

We had some computer problems last week which led to me getting behind in my blogging. However, I did keep up with my vegetarian cooking! In the last two weeks we had creamy tomato soup and risotto. I'm not going to write about them now. I eat those two things a lot so I'll catch'em when they come back around. This week we're having at least two vegetarian dishes. The first one we had today was a salad. Very simple. It had chick peas, red onions, and hard-boiled eggs on it.

But something was missing from this salad. Something very, very important. Yes - baked goat cheese.

I don't know if you can see the cheese or not, but I've got three little rounds of it in the center of my plate. Baked goat cheese is simple. Take a log, and cut it into rounds. The goat cheese will crumble so just pick it up and mush it together into a circle. Brush olive oil on it, add salt and pepper, and then any herbs you want. I used chives. I then tossed the left over chives into the salad. It bakes at 350 for 8-10 minutes (I got this from Everything Vegetarian by Mark Brittman). When it comes out, let it cool for a couple of minutes and the toss it onto your salad. Sooooo very yummy.

As you can also tell we had bread. Mark made focaccia. I thought to take a picture to it after we had eaten some of it. It was fantastic.

Overall this was a great meal. Very simple to put together and not overly filling.