Monday, April 6, 2009

Spring Salad




Today, while preparing a winter bed, I dug up several overwintered daikon radish roots. They were huge, juicy and crisp, and inspired me to throw a little spring salad together. I grabbed a basket and headed into the closest ravine for wood violet leaves, flowers and miners lettuce. Next, it was back to the farm for dandelion greens, baby kale leaves and florettes, chives, and carrots(also found hiding under the soil in a winter bed). I added last year's spring pickled beets, a bit of feta, pine nuts and made an orange vinegarette. I have to say, not only did it taste like spring but looked like spring too! Yum!