Poppy Seed Coin Salad

On leaving a mall I sometimes slip a large note into the parking ticket machine just to harvest that life-affirming clatter of coins! People think I’m crazy when I pretend that I’ve won at a slot machine, but the fistful of coins is later dispersed to parking guards all around the city. For a while, cutting vegetables on the diagonal has been de rigeur but now… coins! They are the jackpot in this salad!