please be kind to the food
I shall not cook pasta till it has some kind of nervous breakdown and becomes so soft and mushy that I get very angry.
Lettuce or any other salad greens should never be cut. "Swimming in " is a phrase that should be used for life forms enjoying a dip, NOT food and never in any form of oil or a facsimile there of.
On that note Steve was most fortunate to have lovely shiskabobs delivered to him personally and of that I am extremely jealous