It's that time of year. The sun is out. The kids are swimming in the back yard every day. Sprinklers are sprinkling the grass. Popsicles are dripping down our arms. Vacations to the forest seem to happen more often. Ahh, summertime. I love this time of year.
In the summer, meals take on a lazy-dazy feel. We grill. We skewer lots of things. We make smoothies. We seem to wrap everything in a tortilla. And we eat salad. Delicious salads of all sorts make their appearance on our table. In my CSA basket, we've been getting fresh greens every week. We've also tried out a few new foods: garlic scapes, radish pods, breakfast radishes. But our favorite discovery are microgreens. These flavorful little greens spice up our salads and both my husband and I miss a salad without them now! Keep your eyes out at the supermarket or farmer's market for those little green bites...you'll never go back!
And to use up all these delicious new flavors- salad in a jar. I make several of these beauties on Monday and they last us for lunches for about 4 days or so. In a pinch, I've even emptied the prepared ingredients into a bowl for dinner, too! I love seeing my mason jars lined up in the fridge with all my goodies from my CSA share just waiting to be savored.
