Needs Must Salad

Needs Must salad is what I make the night before I go to the grocery. I'm out of lettuce and/or spinach so I turn to that nice, long-lasting purple cabbage lurking in the bottom drawer of the fridge. Shredded carrots, celery, and yellow bell pepper round out this iteration. Sometimes there are onions and tomatoes--really, whatever I can find that crunches. I dress it with a little salt, olive oil, and white balsamic vinegar for a touch of sweetness.

On this night we also had a cream of celery and onion soup, made with some broth from the turkey carcass, and hot popovers--those little miracles made from just flour, salt, eggs, milk, and a hot oven.

Yum.