I Only Eat This Delicious Gelato For The Awesome Lunch Container
This doesn't even count as a hack. This is me scrambling around this morning trying to get out of the house with a lunch I eventually packed in a leakproof manner. Oh, I have a new ally in the battle against that, by the way: it's the container from the gelato I finished eating last night because I somehow had room after hitting the opening of the new downtown Brooklyn Hill Country hard.
I used to live in that neighborhood because it was cheap and crappy. Then I got priced out by my jerk building and now there's like, an 8,000-square foot barbecue palace with live music two blocks away. I remember when there wasn't a bar for half a mile! The construction-displaced subway rats used to chase me home! Okay, I'm done.
This lovely caprese salad is brought to you by winter tomatoes, those things I keep buying even though they're never "the batch that will be different." Our marketing director Eva brought Marc Murphy's Green Chicken Chili in one of those gelato containers on Monday. Shame on her for eating delicious, delicious homemade chicken chili that smelled amazing on Meatless Monday when I was touting salad-themed nail art. Also this morning on the subway, a woman was drinking tea out of one of them, possibly because like me, she couldn't find an appropriate vessel for it this morning but did have an empty gelato container and the will to get out the door already.
Regardless, the tight-fitting screw top ensures that your friendly Apple nerd won't have to Q-tip olive oil out of your keyboard again and the jar shape allows you to build salads with dressing on the bottom so you can shake the whole thing up at the appropriate time. Nobody likes soggy lettuce. Enjoy the gelato and then really enjoy your new barattolo di plastica.
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