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Main Course Green Salads, some with grilled chicken or sausage, some with easy pantry staples. All are great warm weather meals.
The theme for Monday posts in May is…. ‘Medium’ Salads. I had so much fun doing small salads for April I decided to do it again for May, but with slightly larger salads. There are the salads that I make … Continue reading…
My potager is giving us food. I pulled the shallots and some of the onions last week. The rest of the onions will come out in the next few days. We’ve been eating summer squash and I picked the first … Continue reading…
My lettuce has been doing very well this year. We’ve been eating salads for either lunch or dinner (or both) every day for several weeks. After a week of rain everything else in the garden has taken off – even … Continue reading…
We have 2 kinds of slugs here – that I know of. The brown slugs are big. They can be 5 or 6 inches long when stretched out. Luckily, for my potager, they are carnivorous. The gray slugs are tiny. … Continue reading…
I have been known to get, shall we say, creative with salad (and pasta and risotto and…). Why not? Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn’t. When it doesn’t I quietly decide not to do it again. When it works I … Continue reading…
The theme for Monday Posts in July is Salads. All types of salads – although there are only 4 Mondays I shall try for variety. Last month I did ‘side’ salads; this month they will be main course salads. We … Continue reading…
Our lettuce is finished. I always plant Romaine last as it’s slow to bolt and usually lasts us well into July. What I didn’t realize is that extreme heat causes it (and everything else in the potager) to stop. I … Continue reading…
