A SIMPLE LEAF-LESS SALAD IDEA

Growing your own and eating what you grow can require some creativity.

Often, we work with the harvest. Whatever is maturing is what we are eating, and it's what we are working with to create our meal plans for the day. Today, we enjoyed a nice leaf-less salad!

LEAF-LESS SALAD VIDEO

WHY NO LEAFS?

At the grocery store, everything is always in season. Carrots, Iceberg Lettuce, Tomatoes, and Bell Peppers seem to be ripe all year round. In the garden, though, this is not the case. As the heat of summer comes on, many salad greens will either wilt or bolt. Eventually, the options may be very limited.

Here, we like to treat limitations like opportunities, so we just roll with it. Today we used chopped cucumbers as the base for our salad instead of lettuce or some other salad green. Then we just added chopped Chinese Red Noodle Beans and Cherry Tomatoes, topping it off with some Chia seeds. (The Chia seeds we not homegrown.) It was a simple dish that tasted like a fantastic salad, and all without requiring any leafy greens. You should give it a try sometime!