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If you want to prepare a summer salad and you are you thinking what to put into your salad bowl, find here a few ideas.
In your summer salad bowl
Find below a selection of summer vegetables -and fruits- that are tasty, look appetizing and are healthy to go into your salad bowl.
Salad leaves – The lettuce of your choice –we love romaine or little gem- or a mix of them –chard, rocket.
Tomatoes – Their sweet taste is at its best during the summer. Cut them in chunks or add cherry tomatoes or other small variety that can be gobbled in one bite.
Onions – Add zing and health to your salad bowl.
Carrots – Grated or thinly sliced. Baby carrots come in assorted colors and they are usually a hit with children.
Peppers – Red, orange or yellow are sweeter than the green ones, and taste better raw on a salad. Take seeds off and slice.
Beets - Boil until tender, or wrap in foil and bake for about an hour at 400°F –depending on size. Peel and slice or cut in chunks.
Summer berries - Berries can add an unexpected flavor to your salad. Raspberries or blackberries are the best for your salad bowl.
Herbs – Use them whole as salad leaves, parsley, coriander or sorrel, for instance, or finely chopped, as garnish or in the dressing. Try chives in any salad where you would add onions or as garnish for steamed new potatoes. Savory or marjoram are great with lettuce, basil and oregano are a perfect match for tomato, as in this tomato and mozzarella salad.
Dressing – Prepare your favorite dressing or vinaigrette, or, if you are feeling lazy, just sprinkle with salt, drizzle with olive oil and toss.
Try this summer salad with parsley and red onion dressing to see it all together. This salad is good to serve on the side of your barbecue.
Try four bean and tuna salad for something with more body. This one is perfect for a light lunch or supper, or a quick mid-week dinner.
- There are many cut and grow again salad leaves available, choose either single variety or mixed leaves seeds packs and plant them in a sunny spot; keep them well watered and weed regularly. For a fresh, delicious, organic salad… just pick the leaves when you need them.
- Don’t despair if you are not in the warm zone, choose a well sheltered spot in full sun; otherwise, tomatoes grow easily in the greenhouse. Use traditional containers or growing bags, have you thought of growing cherry tomatoes in a hanging basket? Tomato plants like potash when the fruits begin to show.
- Peppers, like tomatoes, like sun, warmth, plenty of water and potash feed.
- Some salad onions take only a few weeks to be ready.
- Herbs can grow in containers, in pots on the window –basil grows very well like this during the summer or a sunny yard.
- Salad potatoes grow well in deep pots or cans –try deep plastic planters, some even come with an opening at the bottom for an easy potato harvest.
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