The world played a cruel, cruel joke when it created a girl who wakes up stupid-early but stays up stupid-late, too. I blame email.
At least there’s fried cheese.
There are two ways to come at life if you have an internal clock like mine:
- Fight the late-nighter blues with some heavy medication
- Fight the early-morning rise with some heavy medication
Unfortunately, I don’t play either of these games so I’m left popping out of bed at five AM after a post-midnight pass out feeling all, “LET’S DO THIS SHIT.”
I guess I could also maybe stop drinking espresso in the afternoon, but what kind of life is that?
Plus, I have my greatest ideas in the wee hours of the morning so I’m just gonna roll with it. This chickpea salad was not one of them. This chickpea salad was created out of desperation, a little hope and a whole lot of fried cheese.
Adam and I work together. (A theme…) We work together and workout together and practice together and teach together and blah blah blah. We’re lucky (really lucky) that the work things we do are cool and fun, like, yoga raves and whatnot, but just because it’s not traditional work doesn’t mean it’s not work. We’re also lucky (really lucky) that we get to spend a whole lot more time together than a lot of couples. Even if it’s working or talking about work or going to work and so on.
But the “lucky” factor was wearing a little thin for me this weekend when we rolled into Sunday night with yet another event on the calendar. (You should have HEARD my whiny ass all weekend. Out of control. In my defense, I’m hyper-protective of my free time to the extend it’s almost paralyzing when it’s compromised.) So I hijacked a work obligation and turned it into a picnic date. (You can do this when you work at a yoga studio and your work obligation is attending a concert at the studio. Consider a career switch.)
So in a desperate attempt to reclaim my night, I packed up a picnic full of this chickpea salad, the blood orange quinoa salad, so much cheese, crackers, cookies and a bottle of wine.
Success.
OH. And the chickpea salad? Not even a recipe. You ready?
1 can of chickpeas, rinsed. 1 red bell pepper, chopped. 2 stalks of celery, chopped. 2 tablespoons of Goddess dressing. 1 giant hunk of deep-fried feta, diced. Mix it all together. Put it in your face.
I wish I could say I invented the fried feta, but I totally got it from The Cowfish. They put it on their Greek salad and it is perfect. Go get some.
Having a SO with the SAME workout schedule/eating habits is basically the best thing ever. Feta cheese for everyoneee!
Feta makes it betta. That’s the motto at my house.
WHY IS THERE NOT A COWFISH IN BALTIMORE?
Sorry for the shouting. It was necessary.
So, do you just fry the feta in a frying pan or do you purchase it that way?
I got it from Cowfish.
man, you sure do love to talk about being busy.
It’s a very big Internet. Carry on.
I very much enjoy your comment.
well said kitten well said
Your writing is brilliant. I eat it up
So glad you are back
Hope you finally make it out to SF, would love to meet you xo
i also hope i make it out to SF
“I’m hyper-protective of my free time to the extend it’s almost paralyzing when it’s compromised.” I totally get it! Some people really don’t understand how important free-time is to a girl.
BTW – I just found your blog yesterday. Loving it so far! I live in Charlotte too. So you can just go to Cowfish and ask to purchase a chunk of fried feta? Or did you bring it home as some sort of left-overs situation? Either way it may not be good information for me to have…
awesome! we’ll have to grab coffee. or (more importantly)… fried feta.
to answer your question (and this is why i’m not a chef or real recipe developer): i straight up took that fried cheese off my Greek salad from Cowfish and saved it for this very purpose. whoops. i feel like the reaction to the cheese has been so strong that they’re going to have to start offering it a la carte (and for carry out).
Ha! Sounds like a plan. Yeah, definitely going to go there and ask for the salad with fried feta “to go.” Thanks for the heads up!
I think I have died and gone to heaven! can’t wait to try!
A quick search of the (very big) Internet revealed a handful of different ways to make fried feta. It sounds like a great addition to a salad! I am headed to NC next month and I plan to visit Cowfish. After reading about it on various blogs for the past couple of years I hope it lives up to my expectations:)
i love that you searched the very big internet for that. enjoy cowfish. it’s the jam. if you’re veg, i recommend any of their salads with the poultry/fish subbed out for fried tofu. i also like the buil-your-own sushi. if you’re a meat-eater, i hear the burgers are killer.