The simple dinner that made a bad day look better

I love when it's just us girls at home. I also love it when we cook together. Another thing I love is warm and tasty meal after a bad day.

Today all the above mentioned conditions were fulfilled. It wasn't the best day. It's just us girls at home and on my way home I stopped at the supermarket and grabbed some pasta and canned tomatoes and some cheese.

When I arrived we got down to cooking immediately. While the lettuce was being chopped the pasta boiled on the cooker. Green as it is the lettuce looked rather boring so we decided to colour it upa a bit with some grated carrot. Not only did the carrot add some colour, it also added some sweetnes to the lettuce. If we had olives this would have been the perfect salad to make your day. As the preparation of the salad was coming to an end I cleaned some garlic and fried it, added the tomatoes, salt&pepper, basil and in less than 1/3 "Grey's Anatomy" episode dinner was ready.The table was set and all the colourful food was ready to be eaten. 

Suddenly nothing existed the bad day never happened, the cold murky day looked so distant. It was the colours and the flavours of the Mediterranean.

It seems that when you're feeling under the weather the best thing to do is to turn to simple Mediterranean cuisine.