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Fresh Salads: My Favorite Time of Year

     I have always loved fresh fruits and vegetables. I can't remember a time when fresh, was not important to me. I remember when my sister and I were young, we would help our grandfather and mother pick green beans fresh from his garden. We were allowed to eat as many as we wanted right then and there. We picked rhubarb from the neighbors back yard and ate it while we stood there. I don't even know if we were allowed to. When you are little, you often don't know the asking etiquette yet, especially when it comes to food you love. My mother grew fresh mint in the back yard. It was wild mint and we would pick a leaf, put it in our mouth, or maybe two or three leaves and just suck on them. We picked apples from the tree in the backyard too and mom made fresh apple butter. So delicious that I would eat it like ice cream straight from the jar.

    There is no match for an in-season vegetable or fruit compared to a hot house vegetable or fruit. My new favorite salad recipe is something that may sound crazy, but it is really good. I took two of my favorite summer salad and combined ingredients and then added a healthier drizzle of dressing. Spinach, Strawberry, Bacon and Egg Salad. It is just like it sounds. As much of all of the ingredients that you want. We use the mix below:

1 bag of Baby Spinach, Baby Kale, Baby Bok Choy - Publix brand from the organic selection.
3 cups of sliced fresh picked strawberries.
1 lb Nitrate-free bacon. (We end up using a 1/2 pound because we eat the rest. LOL)
6 Hard-boiled eggs.

   I make a simple dressing recipe like my mom does with some of the bacon grease. (So bad for you, but tastes so good.) And I add vinegar to taste. We do not drizzle the dressing on the salad because at my house everyone likes a different amount of dressing on their salads.

Simple, fresh, gluten and nitrate free. farm to table. So yummers. Enjoy.

Have a Happy Health-a-licious Day!

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  1. UnknownJuly 12, 2017 at 8:28 PM

    That sounds yummy! We also like bacon lettuce tomato & fresh mushrooms with or without eggs & then the same sweet sour bacon dressing. I only use a couple of tbls of bacon grease, just enough for flavor & to make it cling, so not too bad.

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