First Salad!
The other night I reached into our crisper drawer to pull out some store bought arugula and found that it had turned slimy overnight. So Jon stepped out into the garden and clipped a couple of leaves off each one of our small lettuce plants, which include ‘Red Sails’, a mystery green lettuce, and ‘Breen’ romaine. This first harvest provided just enough leaves for a small dinner salad. I dressed the lettuce with a simple white wine vinaigrette and Jon added shavings of Parmesan cheese and candied hazelnuts. We paired the salad up with some asparagus soup ate it out on our patio table. Such a nice way to enjoy our first meal outdoors this year!
May 3, 2011
The first salad is always so exciting and such a treat!
May 3rd, 2011 at 5:16 amThe greens look beautiful and delicious! You always do such a good job with planting and cooking. I can’t wait to read your book when it comes out.
May 3rd, 2011 at 5:53 amI’m jealous! Mine aren’t quite there yet. This looks so yummy!
May 3rd, 2011 at 11:20 amGREEN…. me (with jealousy) and your first salad of the season. Been very wet (soil) on this side of the sound, so just got my first lettuce, spinach, and sprouted peas (per your instruction) this past weekend.
May 3rd, 2011 at 5:44 pmSo funny! Tonight was our first garden salad as well. We bought fresh fava beans from PCC and toiled over shelling them. Found fresh corn on the cob…go figure. So we had a bed of arugula from the garden with fava beans, corn fresh off the cob, black olives, avocado and a delicious creamy feta cheese. The best!
May 3rd, 2011 at 6:14 pmHi! Just visited from Re-Nest, great website!
May 4th, 2011 at 6:14 amNo WAY!!! If ever you needed proof positive that your move to PDX was the right thing to do, that salad is it. I’ve clipped some overwintered rustic arugula but my new lettuce seedlings seem literally frozen in time~ Kale’s coming along nicely however:)
May 4th, 2011 at 8:59 amLucky! My lettuce greens are just baby sprouts right now. Did you start from seeds or get starts? Hoping this sun will stick around so I’ll be able to do some harvesting soon. I have been enjoying the chives and marjoram from our herb garden.
May 4th, 2011 at 12:29 pmYay! How exciting. The greens I sowed over a month ago are still stunted at 2″ tall. We need some sunshine!
May 4th, 2011 at 12:56 pmYummmm! My greens are close to ready. I’m a bit jealous! Enjoy!
May 4th, 2011 at 9:13 pmIm so jealous! I had hip surgery this Feb. and haven’t had a chance to work in my garden. I love getting fresh lettuce! It looks beautiful.
May 10th, 2011 at 6:50 pmJulie–I hope you feel well enough to garden soon!
May 11th, 2011 at 2:29 pmI love your salad table. I am trying to get more veggies into the nursing home sites and
May 11th, 2011 at 6:23 pmwe grew some lettuces in the actual plastic containers that you buy the salad mixes.
It worked great since lettuces only need about 4 inches of soil.
Also trying to infiltrate cherry tomatoes!!! Oh My the Goliath’s Bush is blue green!!!
Okay this was the push I needed to replant my salad greens. A cadre of crows obliterated the first planting along with some ambitious slugs.
May 17th, 2011 at 7:25 amMouth wateringly delicious! Good for you. I can’t wait til my salad greens are ready.
Danielle
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