Salad for Dinner?

The wife demanded a light dinner due to all the rich ones we've been having recently. My first reaction was, naturally, horror. She specifically mentioned salad, which dovetailed nicely with our lack of any meat item in the fridge for other ingredients to orbit around on the dinner plate. I warmed to the idea of a dinner salad as I assembled red leaf lettuce, cherry tomatoes, hearts of palm (buried in the fridge sometime in 2004 but amazingly still viable), carrots, parmesan reggiano, pepper coated salami and homemade ranch dressing. While the pasta-cum-salad bowls chilled in the freezer for that restaurant-like feel I sliced the tomatoes in half to avoid the gushy mouth explosions, shredded the carrots because raw carrot slices are just annoying, julienned the salami and sliced the hearts of palm. It assembled quickly, was tasty and I felt great afterwards. The wife loved it too.