Whew, what a day........

phone call from the Grandies just after 8a.m., could you come and pick us up?, It was a beautiful warm sunny day, almost summerish, so we packed a lot in, took them home at 4.30 so we were all exhausted.
On one of our excursions I saw this lettuceso decided that as a salute to the end of summer a salad was the only thing to have for dinner.
layered some leaves and topped it with a greek style salad and chunked cold chicken, sprinkled grated parmesan over and served it with a rissoni pasta salad and some parmesan croutons


Rissoni Salad
To make the rissoni salad, bring medium saucepan of salted water to a rolling boil, add a 1/4 cup of rissoni and cook until al dente, approx 10 mins. Meanwhile finely chop about 1 tablespoon of parsley, 3-4 leaves of basil, 1 tablespoon of very finely minced red capsicum, 1 tablespoon of finely chopped black olives, add to a screw top jar with 1 dessertspoon balsamic vinegar and 1 dessertspoon olive oil, shake and pour over drained rissoni, Toast 1 tablespoon of pine nuts and sprinkle over top