Had the first salad mostly from the garden tonight. Used looseleaf lettuce, a few baby beet leaves, a few kale leaves (from the stuff that survived the winter), a bit of the new purslane (from the seeds I bought — it’s lighter green, larger-leaved, and more upright than the common one), a little parsley, a leaf of swiss chard (which I don’t like raw much), plus some dill and chives. The chives are from a plant growing up between cement blocks underneath a maple tree — we surely didn’t plant it there, but it’s a big and healthy-looking plant.
You look at one thing and you think you can’t possibly have enough for salad for everyone, but then you walk around picking a bit from this and a bit from that, and pretty soon you have enough. It was awesome, too!
Ending and Beginning 