Salad My Mom Used to Make

This is like a regular old week day evening salad my mom used to make but we like it and I have a feeling David *might* eat it, in which case please take a photo immediately and send it to me in the spirit of a person who has had a Bigfoot sighting.

Crush a clove or two of garlic and put it in the bottom of the salad bowl.

Put olive oil on top of it, maybe 2T and push around on the garlic with your fingers so its juices get into the oil.

Add a 1/2 t dijon mustard, not fancy, just straight up dijon.

Get half a lemon.

Put lettuce, such as Bibb or Red Leaf, in the bowl. Iceberg is fine too. We definitely had a lot of iceberg, meatloaf, frozen Gino's pizza and Little Debbies, in case anyone tries to see if your husband had some kind of romantic French cooking-filled childhood.

Add some chopped curly parsley if you have it (optional).

Squeeze some of the lemon juice onto the lettuce, not too much.

Add salt, regular fine salt, not chunky sea salt.

A little bit of black pepper.

If you have a hard boiled egg, put it through the slicer and add it.

If you have a can of black olives, those should go on too.

If you are feeling whack, put in a can of tuna. She used to make that a lot. It's good.