Salad is delightfully flexible: it can start a meal, it can finish a meal, or it can be the entire meal. It's up to you! Salad greens are plentiful in spring from the grocery store, the farmer's market, or your backyard veggie garden. Rinse them well in cool tap water, gently shake off the excess water, pat them dry, and then pile them high as a starting point to your homemade salad. Salad in Layers Layer 1: Greens are a great layer to start with when making a salad. There are so many choices such as Romaine, iceberg, kale, arugula, watercress, or spinach. Layer 2: Colorful, … [Read more...] about Salad Season is Here!
3 Recipes for Spring with Grocery Shopping Lists to Match
Are you hungry for Spring and could you use help coming up with some new recipes? Take a moment to think about all the beauty of spring. When a new season of nature emerges from winter, the landscape becomes alive with color, birdsong, and bees. Many possibilities also emerge for making recipes and meals from early spring foods such as spinach, kale, Swiss chard, garlic shoots, spring onions, radishes, asparagus, green peas and a little later, strawberries. Here are 3 recipes to add spring freshness to your meal plans with the special foods of spring. And, to make life easier, here … [Read more...] about 3 Recipes for Spring with Grocery Shopping Lists to Match