More stuff about food and houses

I made a new dish tonight that is now on Gilda's favorite foods list! It's called the Crunchy Couscous Salad:

Ingredients:
1/2 cup dry couscous
3/4 cup water
1/2 cucumbers, thinly sliced and quartered
1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
1/2 sweet onion, chopped
4 oz black olives
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon vinegar
2 tablespoons feta cheese crumbles
1 1/2 teaspoons dried basil
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Preparation:
1. In a medium saucepan, boil water and add couscous. Return to boiling, then remove pan from heat, cover, and let stand for five minutes. Fluff with a fork and let cool while preparing veggies.
2. Add cucumber, bell pepper, onion and olives to couscous.
3. Combine olive oil, vinegar, feta, basil, salt and pepper to make dressing. Mix with couscous salad.
4. Refrigerate and serve chilled. Add cooked chicken to make it a meal.



AND - We are enjoying the house hunt! We love the house in the previous post. Rafa would have been ready to write the offer letter then and there, but I want to be sure. So, we went to an open house on Sunday (hated it) and we have five more to look at this week. The Sherwood House (our name for it) is the new standard. If none of these five measure up, then we will put in an offer on the Sherwood House. It's going to be an exciting week!