Salad Days! Caprese salad is a simple Italian salad from the island of Capri, featuring fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil, seasoned with salt and pepper, and drizzled with olive oil, often with an optional balsamic glaze

Salad Days! Sun ripened tomatoes make the best Tabouli. Bulgar, cucumbers and tomatoes loaded with fresh chopped mint and parsley.

Salad Days! Celery salad. Simple, celery, fresh herbs, and toasted walnuts. Toss with a light olive oil and vinegar dressing. Herb suggestions for celery salad include fresh, chopped cilantro, or dill and a sprinkle of mint. Another variety of celery salad. If you’ve never had it, give it a try.

Salad Days! Corn Salad Start with fresh ears of corn or 12 ounces of frozen corn kernels. Add a pint of grape or cherry tomatoes. From here, everything is up to you. I added one chopped bell pepper, 1 small red onion. Optional: 1 chopped hot pepper. (poblano.) Dress w cider vinaigrette

Salad Days! Spring Radish Salad Thinly sliced radishes. Dress with fresh lemon juice and fresh dill. Add a packet of Stevia to tone down the heat of the radishes (optional). S&P

Salad Days! Celery Salad or Lao Hu Cai (Tiger Salad) The original called for 2 tablespoons of dried mini shrimp sprinkled on top. Shrimp is omitted here. Recipe includes celery matchsticks, cilantro leaves, scallions, poblano slivers, tossed with a sweet-salty sesame oil vinaigrette.

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Salad Days! Make the three bean salad, a little hardier onto the main dish level with the addition of pasta. Try 3 bean pasta salad. With corn, red and green onions. Light cider vinaigrette dressing and Parmesan shreds for garnish. Herb suggestions: fresh chopped dill and or thyme leaves.

Salad Days! Three bean salad with corn, red onion, and herbs. (Black bean, kidney bean, garbanzo bean.) dressed with roasted garlic vinaigrette. I chose three cans of beans from the pantry, added frozen corn. Use your favorite combination or whatever you have.

Salad Days! Marinated button mushroom, cherry tomato and English cucumber salad with fresh herbs and onions. Marinade served as dressing with olive oil (optional).

Salad days! I’m back with more blueberries. Romaine salad with blueberries and pistachios. Topped with red and green onion. Roasted garlic and lemon dressing. A sprinkle of fruit and nuts on a simple dinner salad will make the main dish.

Salad Days! Today it’s simple salad. Lettuce, tomato cucumber. Then I raided the fridge and found red onion, chickpeas, bell pepper. Lightly dressed with Ranch. Eat what you have. Add what you like.

Salad Days! Fast, filling, cool. Tomato, artichoke, chickpea salad. Add additional veggie favorites. I included red onion, parsley and bell pepper. Use what’s in season or what you have. Dressing: poppyseed or ranch.

Salad days! I’m gonna share some of the beautiful salads I’m creating with fresh picked salad greens and herbs I’m growing and discovering at the farmers market. Salads don’t always have lettuce. Some will be entrées, side salads or for breakfast. Some with fruit, pasta, grains or greens.

Blueberry Pistachio Spring Salad Make the dressing first. Dry, the salad leaves., I used Romain only, and dress the salad leaves before assembling rest of the salad. Fresh blueberries, chopped pistachios, thinly sliced red onion. More dressing to taste.

Fresh mint and lemon juice brighten the spring favorite. Tomato Avocado Cucumber Bean salad w mint

Pasta Primavera with asparagus and peas. Include red onion, cherry tomatoes. Herby vinaigrette. First time using Chickpea pasta. The pasta started to crumble almost immediately. I’ll use traditional pasta shapes from now on.

Asparagus seasonal celebration. Roasted asparagus and artichoke salad with Canelli beans, grape tomatoes, and green olives salad. Dressing Lemony vinaigrette & fresh herbs.

Strawberries are beautiful at the market. A favorite spring salad is spinach and strawberry. Toasted sliced almonds and poppyseed dressing complete the dish.

Citrus, avocado and roasted golden beets. W toasted walnuts & Lemon Vinaigrette

For weeks the crockpots have been filled with soups, stews, chili, chicken and dumplings, chowders. BUT Now it spring dining time! Try this roasted beet and citrus salad. Drizzle with a light vinaigrette. Top with chives and toasted pecans. Use what you have. I had TX red grapefruit and FL orange.

On a cold windy night what could be better than a comforting bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup? What would you serve with soup?

First time in 30 years, I’ve been to McDonald’s. Yes, I wanted to try pickle fries, and get socks. If you want to make your own Dill Pickle Salt, try this. Dill Pickle Salt Ingredients 1/2 cup kosher salt 2 teaspoons pickle brine (juice from a pickle jar) 1 teaspoon dried dill weed

My beautiful lawn is golden. It aggravates my Neatnik Neighbor that I don’t rake leaves. I think my yellow lawn is groovy. ( yes, I’m that old.) After the rest of the leaves have fallen, we’ll mow. Returning the nutrients back to the soil.

Fall Happens. 🍁Like it or not. 🍃🍂🍁 The first chili of the season is simmering in the crockpot. (Jim Long sells a good chili 🌶️ seasoning.) Do you make chili from scratch?

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Salads Caprese salad tomato, mozzarella, basil. What do you add to yours?

More summer salads. White bean and tomato salad. Great for dinner tonight and lunch tomorrow. Enjoy those sun ripened tomatoes from the market or your garden.

Salads Corn and zucchini salad Combine fresh chopped corn.zucchini, red onion, cilantro. Add Lime Vinaigrette: 3 tbs olive oil 3 tbs fresh lime juice 1/2 teas cumin S&P Serve chilled.

Spring salad. The first home grown lettuce and radishes with vinaigrette. Heirloom Sanguine Ameliore Lettuce is a favorite.

A trip to my herb Garden changed the character of this salad. It started out as pasta salad with herbs, but is now spring herbs with pasta. Share your salads. What’s growing in your garden or gracing your table?

The garden is exploding. The farmers market tables are overflowing. It’s the perfect time for a salad. Show me your salads. My salad today is strawberry and spinach with poppyseed dressing. I added lemon balm from the garden and a slice of fresh lemon.

These big beautiful Darwin tulips are the last blooms of the season. The amazing thing is I haven’t planted tulips in over four years so these are repeat bloomers.

These giant purple tulips are Darwin’s. And they are repeat bloomers I haven’t planted tulips in four years. I have never in my life seen to exploding this late in the season.

Garden season is near.

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No daffodils yet in zone 6b, SE Missouri. Ready for Bluesky and spring flowers.