Summer salads are always special and a surprise. I never know what I will find that is ready in the garden but tonight there is lots to choose from.
As a base, I pull deer-tongue lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and purslane (Portulaca oleracea) and then add carrots (Daucus carota ssp sativus), two types of radishes (Raphanus sativus), snow peas (Pisum sativum var saccharatum), and blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum). The root and leaf vegetables are quite abundant though the fruiting ones will not be ripe for a couple of weeks.
It matters little as the freshness of my collections and the satisfying crunch of a first bite pleases Juana and me each time.
Summer salads
