I was able to pick lettuce tonight for our dinner salad and make a fresh salad with our super easy vinaigrette dressing. This is the first lettuce of the year. What a treat. Perfect time for Easy Homemade Vinaigrette Salad Dressing.
You can see I had more than enough for a large salad. It is so rewarding to pick your veggies from your own yard. I don't have any ripe tomatoes yet though and the cucumbers are still just small vines. Soon though, the whole salad will be from the garden.
I almost always make my own dressing. Really a vinaigrette. I like to control the sodium and other ingredients. It is so simple and even my kids prefer homemade to bottled.
I don't measure. It is just splashes and dashes of olive oil, some type of vinegar like red wine, rice wine or apple cider, sea salt, Mrs. Dash and Italian seasonings and salt and pepper to taste,
That salad looks so good. Probably on of my favorite things to eat. And it's even better to be able to pick it fresh from the garden.
ReplyDeleteJust seeing that beautiful salad make my mouth water. For some reason the soil where I live is not good for growing lettuce. ;-(
ReplyDeleteFresh lettuce from the garden is heaven..your salad looks so yummy!
ReplyDeleteSo jeolous! I have a few months before we can pick veggies for salad. Lookin yummy!
ReplyDeleteI need to learn how to grow my own food. *or at least learn to can* With hyperinflation on the horizon, I need some skills!
ReplyDeleteThe tomato salad tongs are so cute!
I love fresh greens from the garden and the vinaigrette is yummy!
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Oh yes, I have a large container on the upper back deck with two types of leaf lettuce...yummy!
ReplyDeleteLooks great. We're trying to grow lettuce too!
ReplyDeleteYour lettuce looks beautiful! Yep, nothing better than picking your own produce-enjoy:@)
ReplyDeleteVery nice! We have lettuce too...and I was able to add some peas and radishes to the salad as well...our cucumbers are small vines as well, but we have two teeny tiny tomatoes on the vine! I love your salad set...the tomato handles are wonderful!
ReplyDeleteMmmm... your salad looks delicious! We had fresh lettuce from the garden over the weekend too, and it was so good.
ReplyDeletelast night for supper, I made a salad with homegrown lettuce, and then added carrots, and red onion from the store that needed to be eaten.. with a little raspberry vinaigrette... I forgot to add the eggs!
Like you-- my tomatoes aren't ready.
Great pictures, Pat
The lettuce looks beautiful--the blue bowl really sets off the green of the lettuce leaves!
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BEAUTIFUL salad! Love fresh grown vegetables! Love your splash and dash dressing - perfect for a spring lunch!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this with A Return to Loveliness,
Kathy
hi
ReplyDeleteyour salad looks delicious!!! homegrown salad is much better as from the store.
have a nice day,
regina
Yum! Nothing like picking your own lettuce from your garden. :)
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing a new recipe love leaf garden lettuce and love finding new recipes visit me at http://shopannies.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteYum! You are already eating salad from your garden and my snow is not yet totally melted!
ReplyDeleteLooks like you don't have any problems with snails! It looks lovely and I hope mine does too at some point!
ReplyDeleteFresh lettuce sounds wonderful and it's so pretty when it's growing! Welcome to Bloomin' Tuesday! Jean
ReplyDeleteOh yum. There's nothing like the taste of fresh lettuce from the garden. Yours looks wonderful. Great salad. Thanks for linking to TTT. Hugs, Marty
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't get any better or fresher than this! Your salad looks absolutely delicious!
ReplyDeleteLove your blog!
XO,
Jane
I envy you with your garden fresh salad. It looks yummy.
ReplyDeleteLooks sooooo good...can't wait till Mr.CC's veggies are ready...love fresh veggies!!
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Linda
Your lettuce plants make a great border plant. Such a good idea.
ReplyDeleteyum... no garden grown salad at my house yet.... but soon.
ReplyDeleteYummy - can I come over for lunch? The veggie beds look super!
ReplyDeleteWow, that's my kind os salad! Thanks for sharing...
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An Oregon Cottage