This is one of those recipes-that-isn’t-a-recipe posts. My family loves every single ingredient that goes into a salad but one … lettuce. There are a few bursts of lettuce love around here but, for the most part, if I can make a salad without lettuce, I do.
For this easy salad, I chopped up three large tomatoes and one beautiful scallion. I also diced up one slice of white onion – teeny tiny pieces so as not to alert the senses of the little people – and had the kiddos grab fistfuls of basil leaves from the garden.
I tossed all of these ingredients together with a few shakes of coarse sea salt and a swirl (or two) of olive oil.
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| I love finding new cheese! |
Just to be different, I added in chunks of a really yummy cheese I found while wandering around Reid’s Fine Foods the other day. My kids love it when I add in cheese to salad – although I love to make a traditional caprese salad using mozzarella, any cheese will do – crumbled goat cheese, feta, cheddar, you get the idea! My dad always put extra sharp New York cheddar cheese in our salads so I love looking for different cheeses to try. And, if the kids don’t love my experiment… all the more for me.
The local ingredient list: Tomatoes from Edgerton Farm, Scallion from Charlene’s Garden, Basil from our lovely backyard… Cheese from Ashe County Cheese. Delicious!
