"Whatever this salad thing you've got going on, I like it!" proclaimed happy Felix earlier this week.   As he tucked into his second salad dinner of the week, I had to admit I'd scored well with only a modicum of planning and very little effort.

I knew it was likely to be a fraught week between shooting my corn fritters video, entertaining house guests from Paris and being on deadline with my story for the Times-Dispatch.   Plus, the weeds in my garden have gotten out of control, and I just knew I'd want to be sneaking out there to wage war on them when I wasn't wrangling corn in the kitchen and on my computer.