Salad of the Week, Part 1

What better time to start Salad of the Week challenge than between Easter and St. George's Day (my family's patron saint's day or slava) both of which feature heavy food and loads of creamy cakes that yours truly tends to succumb to with reckless abandon.

Another reason that made me think this was a perfect time to blog about salads was the fact that my tofu container recently went empty which alarmed me to take another trip to Block 70....pronto. 

The new Ada bridge takes me there in no more than 10 minutes.
I took this picture the first time I crossed the new bridge on foot on a gloomy, icy January afternoon. Looks a bit menacing, doesn't it?  Walking over to the Novi side against a strong and cold wind, at one point I thought I would give up and turn back, and I would have, except that I did not know if it would take me longer to walk back or continue and reach the other side.

In sunny weather, the bridge and I seemed to have decided to make friends with each other.  

If Wikipedia can be trusted, it is the longest single-pylon cable-stayed bridge in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Bridge
BUT THE VIEW!

I took these pics while driving, thus risking my life and the lives of other people who were on the bridge at the time but I had to make you privy to both the view of the bridge and the cables that run in the middle of the bridge... I know some of you will say that is not much unlike my usual driving. Whatever.

 Naturally, once there, I could not just get a block of tofu and turn back, I mean, after all, I did risk my life to get there. So I picked a few other items including fresh celery stalks, a bag of Chinese greens, assorted instant soup (in varying degrees of spiciness), sesame oil, fermented tofu, oyster sauce and some mysterious Chinese pickles.
Some of the lot I came home with:

By that point I was starving and did not have much time to think or cook so I came up with this "Salad on a Whim"

Can you tell what else is there other than the Chinese greens???

Red grapefruit, pickled beansprouts, beetroot, radish, silken tofu.

 
I seasoned it with olive oil, grapefruit juice, light soy sauce, dry basil and a drop of sesame oil. 

YUM! Chocolate cake no more.