Recipe: How to make a legendary chopped salad

I don’t get out much. In fact, hardly at all, except for morning walks and dog strolls in the neighborhood. My groceries are delivered, and odds and ends quarried by Alexis, my daughter whose schedule includes teaching her high school students via Zoom — and home-schooling her two children, 10 and 5. So, she has plenty of time to locate fresh, perfectly ripened cherries for me, as well as all-purpose flour and paper towels.
Recently, I fled my shelter-in-place premises. For weeks, I