25 grams of cashews are about 13 cashews. This is about 160 calories.

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NOTE [ 11/21/23 ]: I am hijacking this posting just because I can, and I didn’t want to start a new posting.

It may have been while I was still living over in Queen Ann Apartments that I last made a Broccoli, Raisin & Bacon Salad. At least that is the mental image I have, and I haven’t thought of the dining table in that apartment, perhaps ever since I left over 11 years ago. It was about this time that I also made a Bill’s 50 Salad that included kiwi fruit and black olives. Seems like the black seeds in the green kiwi fruit, were mimicked by the black olives, but I don’t recall the other items in this concoction.

However, the Broccoli, Raisin & Bacon Salad I fixed today was delicious and I added a bunch of stuff some suggested elsewhere, but probably not all of it together.

I added kiwi fruit, dried coconut flakes, dried cranberries, crumbled walnuts, with mayo, red wine vinegar, Splenda, and Agave Nectar. Don’t recall if I also added some diced celery, maybe not. I had bought a 6 pack of little boxes of raisins from Walmart earlier this week.

I fixed a regular salad and added some of my homemade Ranch dressing, but didn’t really like it. Earlier in the week I’ve enjoyed a homemade Greek salad made with my homemade Italian dressing. I guess it’s Italian. If not here are the simple ingredients: olive oil, red wine vinegar, dijon mustard, Italian dried spices, and S&P. The actual salad ingredients include: salad greens, Kalamata olives (pitted), sweet onion, tomatoes diced and Feta cheese crumbles. I guess the term would be some of these flavors provide an “acrid” tone to this salad. *I order a Greek salad at Pharaoh’s Legacy when I order their Lamb Gyro. Those same acrid flavors, of the unsweetened vinegar, make the heavy lamb chunks pop.