First:
No lettuce required for this purely garden salad. Tomatoes and cucumbers have been our most reliable (and hard to keep up with) producers this month. This salad gets through one cuke per person and a handful of cherry tomatoes. Our bigger sized tomatoes haven’t been ripening quickly and coming out mealy so these small guys are a welcome standby. I just dash some olive oil, balsamic, salt and pepper on this and crunch away.
Straight from the source:
Second:
When lettuce is desired. We get our lettuce mostly from the farmer’s market- our garden can’t quite keep up with demand and our greens suffered a dog trample early on. We get one huge head for $1.25. When we get home I chop off the bottom wash the leaves and cut the large ones in half. Then I layer them in a paper-towel lined tupperware. It lasts over a week. No more soggy bags of slimy greens. Cutting down on waste is number one in saving money on food.
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nice idea for the lettuce! i bought my parents a salad spinner for their anniversary (i know, sort of weird, but it was their 25th which is the silver anniversary and it was a silver spinner). they can’t adjust to using it so now it’s mine. it’s huge and doesn’t really fit in the fridge with anything else…
Congratulations to Mary and Bill!
Spinners are a bit pesky, but they work so well- and their pieces (basket and bowl) work well for other uses- maybe not storage though, I think the key for the tupperware idea is no air and moisture absorption)
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