Simple Pleasure Mondays: Hot and Cold

Hello, we've missed you all!

As you may have noticed, OOTW ran into a bit of a stall over the past few weeks. Part of that is due to increased business with schoolwork and ultimate, but part is also due to the fact that our new year innovation has begun to wear off =( . Of course we're still working when we get the chance (and we might have a new contributor soon!) but for now, we want to ask for your contributions. Many of our ideas come from things we see or hear about from our friends, but for all of you readers that we haven't met, feel free to email us or comment with your ideas! We'll credit you of course if you would like.

On that note, here's this week's simple pleasure: hot soups and cold salad dishes.

Leo's rotates their soups on a daily basis, and they're generally pretty enjoyable. I promise you won't have to wait in line, and with the coming winter months, they might be exactly what you're looking for in a hot and comforting dish.

If, on the other hand, you wish you didn't have to eat something lukewarm that was intended to be hot (yeah, it happens all the time, we know), try something meant to be eaten cold. Now I don't claim to be an expert on making traditional salads, but I have come to enjoy some of the cold pasta, rice, or vegetable salads that Leo's concocts between the fruit and waffle-maker downstairs. They sometimes contain some really unusual and delicious ingredients, and the variation is quite satisfying. As an added bonus, they're usually vegetarian and relatively healthy. Enjoy!