Skip and be happy!

Garlic Bread Salad  (Hit with my kids, they call it "Crouton Salad!")
1/2 pound crusty, stale bread
1 garlic clove, cut in half
1/4 extra virgin olive oil
2 TBSP fresh lemon juice
2 tomatoes, roughly chopped
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
1/4 cup roughly chopped fresh basil or parsley leaves

Rub the bread all over with the garlic clove, then toast or grill until crunchy and lightly browned.  Cut or tear the bread into 1/2 inch pieces and toss with remaining ingredients.  Serve immediately.  Sometimes I add peppers, barely cooked green beans, or raw onion.

     "You are worried about seeing him spend his early years doing nothing.  What!  Is it nothing to be happy?  Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again."
                                                                           - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762