If I’m being perfectly honest, I hate making salads. Especially in the bus, with our tiny counter and tinier fridge, it is such a hassle. One little bin of greens, enough to have salad with dinner for a few days, takes up about half of our fridge space. And that little bin of greens also mandates a whole host of other vegetables and various accoutrements. or else the salads will be incredibly boring. Then, each evening, you must remove each of these from the fridge, one at a time, and chop up a tiny bit, all to make everyone’s least favorite part of dinner. It’s a real bummer in my book. Too much work and too much space for too dull a dish. But then, what if we were to eschew all those fridge-hogging greens and instead make croutons the base of the salad?
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