Monday, May 25, 2009

garden's first bounty: delicious baby greens

Last week Tom and I harvested our first bounty of the season from our garden. We were able to remove a ton of baby greens from the garden including buttercrunch, spinach and mesclun mix. Additionally, we needed to thin out the beet seedlings which turned into a wonderful addition to our baby greens salad mix.

On Saturday the farmer's market really kicked it up a notch with loads of strawberries, green onions, greens, and asparagus. As a result, I decided to make a delicious and %100 local salad highlighting some of our purchases during this early part of the growing season.

Baby Greens Salad with Honey-Strawberry Dressing


Ingredients

For Salad
Around 4 cups of Baby Greens
2 Cups Strawberries sliced
6 Green Onions chopped

For Dressing
2 tbs Honey
1 cup Strawberries
1 tbs Rosemary

Blend strawberries and honey for dressing. Toss with salad ingredients. Eat up!

All ingredients were purchased at the market or harvested from our garden!
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4 comments:

  1. UnknownMay 26, 2009 at 1:22 PM

    mmm... that looks so delicious!

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  2. EricMay 28, 2009 at 11:35 AM

    MMM... that dressing sounds great. kinda reminds me of when we all drank tons of watermelon aqua fresca!

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  3. SusanMay 28, 2009 at 2:21 PM

    The dressing is super easy and a nice light addition to the salad. I've decided I don't like dressings that mask the awesome flavors of the veggies in the salad, rather I prefer a nice light dressing to enhance the already present veggies in the bowl.

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  4. EricMay 28, 2009 at 8:07 PM

    HEY, you guys got bitter melon from the Orchard Downs gardeners last summer, right?

    I found an interesting recipe using bitter melon, or rather karela, the indian name for it:

    http://www.themahanandi.org/2009/05/27/stuffed-karela-a-100-year-old-recipe-pictorial/

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